Brainstorming: How to do it better

A sign saying 'use your brain'.

Brainstorming sessions are a great way to develop new ideas and take the team’s input, but they feel like a total waste for many managers.

These sessions usually result in some participants bickering while others just sit and listen without trying to partake. This is, of course, a waste of time and entirely non-productive because the whole point was to take everyone’s input, and if that’s not happening, it’s useless.

Sometimes even if the brainstorming does bring...