Detail all the different elements of your idea.
Think about the project you’re working on. What’s a really big idea that could help you achieve your objectives? Use our worksheet to detail all the different elements of your idea.
Once you've had your big idea, the next step is to put it into a format that helps you either evaluate it against others or communicate it to key stakeholders.
This simple worksheet features a series of prompts and boxes to fill in as follows.
This simple worksheet helps participants to break down the key elements of their idea and define its value, outcomes and potential obstacles. It also helps plan next steps and how to communicate the idea to others.
At the end of an idea generation session, this is a good tool to use to collect the best ideas together and put some polish on them for next steps.
You can either hand out these worksheets as A4 or A3 for individuals and pairs. Or, for especially big ideas, you could blow them up onto A2 or A1 and have groups fill them in using Sharpies or Post-It notes.
Close off the session with a shareback where groups or individuals give the details of their big ideas.
At the end of an idea generation session, this is a good tool to use to collect the best ideas together and put some polish on them for next steps.
Using this tool with a skilled facilitator means that discussions are focused, time is used efficiently, and the group moves toward consensus, making the session productive and impactful.
