Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story

Brainstorming: Doing the Data Dump Productively

Here's how to do productive Brainstorming:

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Set up a large whiteboard or an easel with a big pad of paper and lots of push pins to mount the sheets. I prefer a whiteboard because it allows me to erase and rewrite free-flowing ideas at will. It also results in a neater and easier-to-read set of Brainstorming notes. Have on hand a supply of markers in several colors. Use different colors to indicate different groups or levels of ideas. There are several high-tech products on the market that can capture written scrawls electronically from a whiteboard to a computer and then to a printer (my favorite is eBeam from Electronics for Imaging). These tools are very cool, but not essential. You can always ...