What are some ways to visualize a team's creative process?

9 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE FACILITATORS Facilitating large groups is a highly delicate endeavor, where a single mistake, an erroneous judgment, or a lack of response can lead to losing the group’s commitment forever. With two decades of experience as a professional facilitator of innovation, I have led over 1000 workshops globally. Through numerous mistakes, unexpected challenges, and encounters with diverse human behaviors across cultures, I have gathered invaluable insights. I have distilled 9 essential habits of highly effective facilitators for you in this article: https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/9-habits-highly-effective-facilitators-front-end-innovation-fztuf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via

isualisation is one of the most important aspects of why facilitation can be so helpful for teams. A lot of the time team members have different perspectives on challenges and simply visualising this in the room means the team can view all of the different perspectives super easily. Our brains can only process about 7 pieces of information in one meeting and simply visualising data can stop the need for us to remember everything. Simple idea but so effective!

I, for one, have been compartmentalizing my brain for as long as I can remember. They call it mind mapping these days. If you can teach each and every member on your team how to map their mind, you won't need any feedback (literally EVER), goals will always be clarified, no weaknesses, they will all be responsible with aligned expectations and actions and not just that particular team, but the entire hierarchy of the company will celebrate their achievements cause they will be the best lot. BTW, to test my theory above, choose your worst performers and apply, you will be shocked to the roots of your existence.

One framework i've found very helpful is Strategyzer's Value Proposition Canvas. It clearly lays out the pains, gains and jobs to be done for the customer and also demonstrates the value you create for customers through your products and services. Visualising this makes it very easy to adapt and consider different approaches which lends itself very well to ideation.

But even just having everyone write their input or ideas on sticky notes can aid in visualizing what everybody thinks. This fosters collaboration because you don't have to retain all the information discussed in your head; it's all displayed on the wall.

Sometimes giving teams simple icons, shapes and frameworks to use can work wonders. This is particularly important for creating new concepts and when a top line supporter journey is helpful to articulate the idea.

Most of the time Team’s creativity is getting lost due to many factors like no vision of leadership, tight deadlines, no appreciation to the creator etc. it’s really important to identify the simple process at the beginning to identify teams creativity and educate them on the same. This process can be enhanced once team get matured. All ideas should be visible to complete team as that can trigger more ideas with in the team. Lastly, a facilitator should showcase these ideas in correct forum. Publish these to all the team so that it can be reused across the teams as a lesson learnt.