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Problem Solving
Some programs are a lot of fun to design—and this was one of them. We began each session with ‘Warm up Your Creative Juices’ exercises and gave the participants Creative Thinking (Brainstorming and Ideation) Guidelines as follows:
- Let your mind run wild
- There are no wrong answers
- No criticism is allowed
- More is better
- Partner with other participants to create a larger idea pool
- Hitchhike on others’ ideas.
After puzzle number five called, Team Mind Benders, the program easily led the participants into a discussion about how creativity is the basis of effective problem solving. At the end of the program, participants learn a Problem Solving Process that organizes their creative juices into a productive flow of events. They also learn that by mixing and combining ideas with a team of people they increase their ability to create better solutions. And for the engineers who went through this program there were plenty of technical problem solving tools such as bar graphs, circle graphs, pictoral graphs, pareto diagrams, scatter diagrams and sample control charts.
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