WARM-UP CREATIVITY EXERCISES FOR

INDIVIDUALS AND SMALL GROUPS

FORM B

1. Ideational Fluency: Do each exercise as individuals, then share with team members:
In one minute, write down as many uses as you can think of for:
? a brick.
? a baseball bat.
Discussion Points:
How many uses did you identify?
How might you increase your ideational fluency?
2. Possibility Thinking: Do first as individuals, then share with your team:
In one minute, how many possible ways can you think of to get from here to Beijing, China?
Discussion Points
How many of you listed geographic routes?
How many listed methods of transportation?
How many listed other possibilities?
3. Scenario Thinking: Discuss these in your team (3 minutes):
Can you think of a set of circumstances in the future in which:
? Computers would be banned?
? Computers would be worshipped?
? Computers would be swallowed?
Discussion Points
Share some of the scenarios you came up with.
To what extent was it helpful to discuss these items with others in developing your
scenarios?
4. Combinational Ability: Discuss these in your team (2 minutes):
If up, in, and down can be linked together by the word shut, what word links:
? fish, cut, and cream? cold
? apprentice, leader, and war? ship
? baseball, fishing, and trousers? fly
Discussion Points
How did you link each set of words?
How helpful were your small group discussions in arriving at solutions?

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