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EXERCISE 3THE IDEA BALL GAME
Objective
The objective of this exercise is to get the participants loosened up for generating ideas and getting them out of their comfort zones. It is a playful way of initiating the idea generation.
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Description
1. Ask all participants to stand in a circle. Use the problems or disharmonies that they have already identified. Pick one problem at a time. Say the problem out loud and give one participant a ball. Now they have to come of with business solutions to the problem or ideas that come out of it.
2. Instruct the participants to start their sentences with “We could” or “I could”. Remember to keep them on target: It is business ideas and solutions that they are discussing so they need to be practical. It is not overall society solutions or problems.
3. First participant gives their contribution and throws the ball to another participant. Ask them to be quick. If a problem seems to be difficult and stalls the game, give them a new problem to solve; otherwise choose a new problem when it seems exhausted.
