Participated in a training session today with this title with a coach from The Mind Gym.
Covered three main tools:

# Outrageous Opposites
# The Idea Beam
# The Morphological Matrix

*Outrageous Opposites*

* Agree objective
* Brainstorm solutions
* What are the “outrageous opposites” to these?
* Evaluate

*The Idea Beam*

_A very practical application of chunking up and down logical levels_

* Choose an objective
* Brainstorm ideas - classify on the fly as Broad Ideas, Specific Ideas, Actions
* Use questioning to explore up, down, sideways

*The Morphological Matrix*

* Agree objective
* Brainstorm attributes of the solution
* Select best attributes
* Brainstorm options for each attribute
* Select combinations across attributes
* Evaluate

*Recommended Reading*

* The Right Brain Manager
* Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind
* Six Thinking Hats

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