ransform your meetings --> separate Brainstorming from Decision-Making.
Confusing brainstorming with decision-making can turn meetings into a battleground where ideas go to die.
Brainstorming is about opening the floor to all opinions and possibilities with an empty mind, embracing other ideas without ownership or judgment. It’s a creative process where the wilder the ideas, the better. This freedom leads to innovative solutions that decision-making settings miss.
Decision-making involves evaluating options and making informed choices. Here, human nature and confirmation bias kick in. People seek affirmation for their own ideas and critique others, fostering defensiveness and killing brainstorming and innovative ideas.
This clarity, combined with advance preparation and time to 'sleep on it’, reduces stress, improving decision quality.