Facilitated creative problem solving.
To help your team to see differently.
What you look at every day.
IT'S NOT AN IDEA PROBLEM. IT'S A SPARK PROBLEM.
Ignite The Mind is a creative ideation team. We design and facilitate strategically grounded innovation sessions and train teams in creative problem solving, enabling you to identify new opportunities and critical solutions to challenges.
Said another way, we help your team to think better, together.
Every session is one of a kind, built for your team and your challenge. Using proven exercises, we'll stretch, twist, and flip how your team sees and approaches a situation and guide them through the creative process.
From Fortune 500s to non-profits and start-ups,
the teams we work with all share one need:
To see differently what they look at every day.
How Do We Light The Fire?
the burn plan
Controlling the fire with intentional planning.
Starting with a strategic grounding session, we hear from you about the current state of your business. The first goal is to make sure we're asking the right question to be solved.
We next design your session. From timed facilitation to the right mix of voices in the room, we build exercises around the uniqueness of how your team thinks.
The result is a session with a purpose, a plan and an outcome defined in advance - not a meeting with sticky notes.
fire starters
Great ideas
need fuel.
The physical place we think in, matters. We design a room that feels different from the one you work in every day. Informal, neutral ground, where everyone is equal and titles are removed.
Equally, new thinking rarely comes from staring at the same information everyone sees every day. So we bring in the unexpected: imagery, materials, stories from outside your industry - all to drive creative problem solving.
Setting the tone for in-person human collaboration.
spark
Everyone thinks and contributes.
People think differently but ideas can come from anyone. Based on the attendee list, we develop facilitation to engage your team.
Ideas will be identified by individuals, expanded within groups, and then shared and built by the team.
We hold judgement until later review. This stage is about variety and the unexpected. We set the conditions for psychological safety, so offering "crazy" ideas carries
no risk.
The room is creative and yet managed.
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Ideas don't count until they move.
Once ideas are "on the wall" we shift from creating to measuring.
The team begins the exercise of evaluating each concept against a set of criteria we set at the start, such as impact, feasibility, cost and fit within your strategy. Which ideas bring real heat.
After the session is over, you'll receive a final organized report that prioritizes the top ideas, with recommended next steps. So this investment moves to action within your organization.