10 techniques that will increase your ability to solve problems and generate ideas witty

This article describes ten seemingly funny, but in the second and third - a very effective decision-making techniques, calculated and designed in full accordance with the teachings of de Bono. In fact, they had to be fifteen: one for each month of the year. But about two we just forgot.


1. The method of "6-3-5"
It stands just six people come up with three ideas every five minutes. Invite your guests (employees), put in a circle, ask how they are doing. Not waiting for an answer, give each a piece of paper, led her to write three ideas, one in the column, and note the clock to five minutes. Then ask participants to exchange cards. Now they have written to support or criticize each of the three ideas that they got; For everything again given five minutes. Change the cards again, and again, and again. Do this for as long as the worker does not expel you, because she had to wash the floor, or until all eighteen ideas will not be commented on by each of the participants. The entire procedure ideally takes half an hour, and at the end you have on hand will be eighteen initial ideas and ideas ninety-comments. Not bad, but you can sharpen them further, using our advice.

2. Procedure for Young
She paired comparison procedure. Let's say you and your friends make plans for the night from Friday to Sunday. One offers a club, the second - poker, the third - a sauna, a fourth wants to go home and did not want to, because I forgot to take the pill. Build the standings, using all the alternatives. As in football, there is possible or win, or a draw. If poker "tied" with sauna (alternatives seem equally boring) - one point; if won - three. Count the glasses, stop losing time and money in their homes. Anyway Yang procedure works only for situations with multiple (six) of alternatives.

3. Method GROW
I'm sorry to G here - this is not a G, read about in magazines and Goal. That is your purpose or condition that you want to achieve. R - is the Reality, the truth of life. O - it's Obstacles, barriers to, and at the same time Options, then there are options to overcome the difficulties. But with W all very obvious. As you suggested, it Ways forward, ie concrete steps to turn the desired into reality. How does the formula entirely? Take a dictionary and look it in the word "tablet". Then take a tablet. Or even just a piece of paper. Write in the top left corner of your G - for most people it is "power over the world and a lot of money." Then in the top right corner of the draw R - «authority over an assistant and little money." Reach out to the arrow by Reality Goal. He handed? Do not hurry to rejoice: you are still a little money. Under the arrow sign for all their O. For example: "In order to have more power, you need more money. But in order to have more money, you need to stop sleeping with the assistant. It's some deadlock - the magazine, help me! "From each O stretch down several arrows and came Options: take the credit; assistant fire; upgraded to deputy to coat she bought herself; Finally, create a social-nationalist party. Below, write a clear W: ask the personnel department, if you rely deputy and whether to dismiss a person on the grounds that it was silent during an orgasm; or stick a mustache to read and finally, Mein Kampf.

4. Method Picture Association and Biotechniques
We are not going to translate this term, because it is too obvious, quite well-known, extremely intuitive, and yet we do not know how to adequately translate. But the idea here is to be inspired by the picture, which has no relation to your problem. Go online and open your favorite photos. Then quickly close and find something decent, with a picture of a process or a natural phenomenon. Ideal panorama of the war, pictures of wildlife or production staff. Think about how what is happening in the picture associated with your problem or ask for tips at the picture (not out loud, not to look quite so stupid in their eyes). Let's say you are the owner of the plant, and in the last week five of your subordinates at first fell into a vat of boiling pitch, and then refused to resign voluntarily. You look at a picture of a marching soldiers or floating salmon. Why do they all work, and you - no? How would the soldiers acted (or salmon) on your site? Write down on a piece of any ideas, even the most insane. Soldiers marching to the music and they feel good? Maybe you put the plant powerful speakers, to the cries of the fallen into the vat had not been heard and not distracted by other workers? Patients eat salmon predators and they do not destroy the system? Maybe you quietly dismiss the victims until they stirred up a trade union and other workers? Or, I do not know to incite them bears.

5. The method of PMI - Plus, Minus, Interesting
Board to prescribe a single column of the pros of the situation, and in another - cons, you must have already given, and more than once. Good for you, I do not listen: very inefficient appliances. Far better to use a technique invented by de Bono PMI. In addition to the column "Pros" and "Cons" need to create the column "interesting." It will include all the curious consequences of your choice about which one can not say they are positive or negative and whether it will happen. For example, you decide to exchange one-bedroom apartment in the center of Moscow in a small village near Taishet. Pluses are obvious: fresh air, beautiful nature. Cons too: travel far to work, cold winters. But there are just interesting consequences. You finally see live beaver, who wanted to see since childhood. And you certainly fall in love in a Chinese spy (of Siberia, they say, is full). These details help make the choice if the pros and cons are balanced. In addition, each item can be assigned its value - from -5 to +5. For example, you can see the beaver and the zoo (for a ticket to the apartment can also be exchanged) - minus three. But Asians your fetish - plus four. Fold - and get a "plus one." Must go.

6. SWOT-analysis
Unlike Wasserman, and all analyzes, SWOT-analysis - a thing always positive. This is probably the easiest and most effective way to organize your thoughts. Most of the people from his intellectual professions know something, but you just in case recall. SWOT - an acronym for Strengths (Strengths), Weaknesses (weak points), Opportunities (possibilities) and Threats (threats). The technique invented 45 years ago at Harvard for detailed strategic planning in business. Businessmen analyzed the internal environment of the company and subscribed to the strengths of the first, and then - poor. After that, they predicted the impact of the environment, new opportunities as a result of the strengths of the new threats as a result of the deterioration of weaknesses. You can go in their footsteps and make a SWOT-analysis of any of its problems. For example, erectile dysfunction. Divide the list into four parts by two lines - horizontal and vertical. Write out in the upper left corner of dignity ("How to hang!"), And in the lower left - disadvantages ("But it is not necessary"). Now try to imagine the reaction medium on the situation. Yes, now you can safely stand in tight lines and ride on the tram, get a slap in the face without fear of uncontrolled erection. This is the upper right corner (O). In the lower right (T) points will probably be more, and you will understand the obvious thing: you go to the urologist-andrologist!

7. Method Nominal Group Technique
In brainstorming no shortage, except that minority interests are sacrificed to the dictatorship of the masses, all the credit gets the most flashy, quitters keep silent and humble people kick under the table to say anything, and by such treatment bruises . Nominal group technique in this sense, much more democratic: instead of making noise, participants brainstorm quietly write their ideas on paper. Then Moderator removes duplicate ideas, create a shortlist and asked colleagues to create the final rankings ideas. The first idea in each list receives two points, the second - one. Then the results are summarized. And guess what the idea of ​​winning?

8. The method of 5W
5W - untranslatable (lossless) English abbreviation. The idea is to re-seat all the participants brainstorm in a circle and take turns asking each other questions, in the original language starting with W: why (why), what if (if), when (when), where (where) and who (who). Moderator with the records answers. As a result of this discussion you will not only be able to successfully a couple of times to keep silent, but part of the full, comprehensive picture of the problems discussed at the.

9. Matrix priorities
Is nothing highly technical with falling green figures. The matrix will embody the usual Excel. Strings - solutions to the problem, bollards - evaluation criteria. Options: open your business, get a job. Criteria: financial prospects, the quality of leisure time, the amount of effort, and so on. D. If you just judged on a scale of one of the criteria for each of the alternatives you're bored, you can complicate the task of assigning the weight criteria. For example, you do not care, you will earn a million dollars or RMB, but it is important to see friends on a regular basis. Then, a column of leisure "weighs" more than a column of Finance and estimates set out in it, will need to be multiplied by 1.5, or 2. If you are still bored, call experts were asked to do the same thing, but secretly APPROPRIATE level of importance each of the advisers. For example, the weight of her grandmother - five, because it wise. The rest of the "easier".

10. The method of colored flags
Brainstorming is often delayed until the morning, not only because it's cold and scared. In fact, participants simply do not feel the psychological barriers when ideas are born every second, it is difficult not to fall into euphoria. At the stage of generating ideas is definitely a plus. But when you need to narrow the range of search, the problems begin. Specially for this purpose keep the house multicolored flags, toothpicks, foreign coins or bouillon cubes. Let's say the two of you come up with other ideas and fifty recorded on each piece of paper. Give me ten and ten other flags - currently. Note cards with them the ideas that are in the second round of voting. If one understood correctly, the ideas will be twenty. Throw waste paper and ten flags. Again the vote. And again. At the end should remain two people, two flags and two best ideas. If anything, we cheer for you.