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Getting people to think differently.

Posted by Levina Masterson on February 4, 2015 at 8:00am in Learning Design, Learning Delivery & Facilitation, and The Fun Factory

Hi all,

Ideas and help greatly appreciated.We are hosting a session to update our Leadership framework and would like to start the session with a short and snappy intervention to really get people thinking differently. Nothing too serious, we'd like our participants to feel engaged and excited, whilst open minded, before looking at our current course suite to improve it.Thoughts thus far include optical illusions, 6 thinking hats... But these don't feel "different enough".

Any thoughts welcomed, and thanks in advance!

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Mike Collins February 9, 2015 at 10:00am

One of the other things I've seen done really well and whilst it isn't an intervention as such is to run the session but capture the minutes and outputs in a visual way by 'street' artists. These visual minutes can be photo'd and then used as a great reminder of the theme of the day and what everyone discussed and agreed to. It's cool, funky and quite a different. Here is an example of this being done at an unconference event I attended last year.
Darren Waring February 9, 2015 at 6:59am

Hi Alison, the day went very well thanks, I did put feedback on the community feeds if you wish to take a look.

Daz
Darren Waring February 8, 2015 at 7:14pm

Hi, I'm not sure if this is your kind of thing, but I used this recently to get people thinking differently, it was great fun too...

http://ingenira.hubpages.com/hub/Exercises-to-Improve-Creative-Thin...

Take a look

Daz
- Levina Masterson > Darren Waring February 9, 2015 at 10:06am
  
  Thanks so much Darren, this is a great resource.
- Alison Simmons > Darren Waring February 8, 2015 at 7:26pm
  
  Thanks Darren - really liked that. How did your LMS training day go?
  
  I wasn't sure if you got my message?
Mike Collins February 4, 2015 at 11:51am

Hi Levina

If it's a leadership course and there are any elements about being a leader and how to gain influence or buy in towards a common goal I always love to play

Leadership Lessons From Dancing Guy - there are great conversations about leadership and followers that can stem from this and it's a fun video as well.

The link is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ

Let me know what you think :)
- Levina Masterson > Mike Collins February 9, 2015 at 10:07am
  
  Let's just say...they loved it!
- Carol Cauteruccio > Mike Collins February 7, 2015 at 8:27am
  
  I love that. Let's all go find an inspirational nut and start a following.
  - Mike Collins > Carol Cauteruccio February 7, 2015 at 1:23pm
    
    That's how you start a movement in style :-)