💥 6 Reliable Brainstorming Techniques - Round-Robin Brainstorming 💥

#4 Round-Robin brainstorming

Having Everyone Participate 👥

Imagine that you've assembled your team for a much-needed brainstorming session to determine the best strategy for marketing the next product release of your company.

The noisy and assertive member of your team, John, says right away that the finest platforms to use are television and the internet. Following John, others provide thoughts that support his. The group is engaged in TV and online ideas ten minutes later. After John established the course, no one else offered any other suggestions.

Simply because one strong person sets the tone for the entire discussion, it's all too simple to begin a brainstorming session with good intentions but later neglect or miss potentially excellent ideas.

Because of this, a tool like round-robin brainstorming is extremely helpful. This approach enables team members to come up with ideas independently of one another. After that, you can apply these concepts to the subsequent steps of the problem-solving procedure.

To help you choose the best method for the situation, we'll go over Round-Robin Brainstorming in detail and its various forms in this post.

Round-Robin Brainstorming is pretty simple, here is how to use it: 👇🏿

𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑 𝟭: Gather your crew around a table. Give index cards to each person so they can jot down their thoughts on separate pieces of paper.

𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑 2: As the facilitator, describe the issue you're trying to resolve. Describe the goals of the brainstorming session in detail. Respond to inquiries but discourage conversation. Allowing individuals to think creatively without external influence is the aim of this phase.

𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑 𝟯: Ask each team member to come up with one suggestion while they are all silent and write it down on the index card.

𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑 𝟰: After everyone has written down their ideas, have them be passed to the person sitting next to them. Now everyone should have a fresh card with their neighbour’s suggestion put on it.

𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑 𝟱: Ask each person to draw inspiration from their neighbour’s concept to come up with a new one. Once everyone has turned in their neighbour’s card, have them pass their fresh idea to the person sitting next to them so that step four can be repeated.

𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑 𝟲: Keep doing this circular idea exchange as long as required to generate a significant number of ideas. After the allotted time is up, compile all the concepts. They can now be collected, checked for duplication, and further discussion as needed.

Positive and negative aspects 📝

Round-Robin Brainstorming and the Crawford Slip Method are extremely similar. The most notable distinction (and benefit) is that your group uses other people's ideas to develop even more ideas, independent of pushy or noisy team members. This strategy also makes sure that everyone in your organization has an equal opportunity to share their thoughts, which is another benefit. This approach can make the shy or low-confidence members of your team feel more at ease.

Round-Robin Brainstorming has the drawback of not being completely anonymous. Simply because they are aware that the person sitting next to them will see what they have written, team members may be reluctant to share ideas when passing them around the room. The fact that each person draws inspiration for their new idea from only one other person's concept rather than the thoughts of the entire group is another drawback.

𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒆: Round-Robin Brainstorming can be made anonymous by collecting the ideas at each stage, redistributing them, and so forth (Instead of having participants give their thoughts to the person sitting next to them).

Variations 📚

An alternative to writing down thoughts is verbal brainstorming. Discuss the present issue with your team members as they are seated at a table. Next, walk around the table and give each person a chance to express one thought. Each concept should be recorded for later debate.

Compared to the written version, this is frequently faster. Some team members might be reluctant to share ideas in front of the group though. By letting everyone know that no idea is unworthy of discussion, you may help prevent this.

Round-Robin can also be used for collaborating on ideas in larger groups. Everyone should be divided into smaller groups, and each group should generate one fantastic idea and record it on an index card. After this, switch cards between groups as you would when executing the individual version. The next step is to have each group generate a fresh idea based on the card of the preceding group.

Vital Points 🎯

Round-Robin Brainstorming can help your team come up with ideas without being overly affected by other team members. Additionally, using this technique guarantees that each member of your team has an equal voice in the ideas you come up with.

Both the written and verbal versions of this strategy are acceptable. By dividing the gathering into smaller groups, you can also conduct round-robin brainstorming in a sizable group.

Round-Robin Brainstorming has several drawbacks, thus not all circumstances are ideal for it.

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