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Professional speakers and trainers make brainstorming look
easy, but there’s a knack to it. To create an effective brainstorm
on your flipchart:
Write the title on the page. Top (title) or middle (spider dia-
gram) are both good. Often speakers forget to do this and the
audience can lose track of what they were brainstorming.
Don’t make anybody’s idea wrong. Put everyone’s point onto
the flipchart during a brainstorm, or they may feel nega-
tive towards you. The dynamic of a brainstorm is inviting
and investigating ideas, so they don’t all have to fit with the
answers you were expecting.
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