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How do you solve your problems? This album follows two facilitators as they lead a 2-day workshop in creative problem-solving, providing a chance to adopt a new approach to the difficulties we encounter in our daily lives. Their reflections on time-keeping and good facilitation provide insight whilst the group tackle problems they’ve experienced at work, using different processes and techniques. This material forms part of The Open University course B822, Creativity, innovation and change.
Track 5: Sorting out strategies
How a group makes decisions and deals with discord.
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Tracks in this podcast:
| Track | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Facilitating creative thinking | An introduction to this album Play now Facilitating creative thinking |
| 2 | Warming up | The facilitators focus on preparing the group for the creative problem-solving session. Play now Warming up |
| 3 | Exploring the problem | What’s really behind the problem, and how does the facilitator steer the group? Play now Exploring the problem |
| 4 | Generating ideas | Techniques for stimulating the flow of ideas. Play now Generating ideas |
| 5 | Sorting out strategies | How a group makes decisions and deals with discord. Play now Sorting out strategies |
| 6 | The way forward | How a facilitator helps participants to see problems in a new light. Play now The way forward |
| 7 | Fast facilitation | A group has a go at working without facilitators; meanwhile you have a chance to think like a facilitator. Play now Fast facilitation |
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