100 Ideas
Everybody – Stickies & Markers – 10 Minutes
How to Run 100 Ideas
- Provide materials for participants (markers and sticky notes, or a blank digital whiteboard)
- Provide the prompt
- Explain the length of time they have and how many ideas they should aim to generate in that time, providing an overall group goal (for example, for a group of 10, each person should get 10 ideas in two minutes, for a total of 100 ideas)
- Emphasize that any idea counts and they should not judge what they’re writing down as good or bad. All ideas count towards the total!
- Start the timer
- When the timer has finished, have everyone tally up their ideas. If the final number has not been reached, have the group continue generating ideas until the number you stated at the beginning
Example & Prompt
You can run 100 Ideas to brainstorm…anything! Quarter goals, newsletter topics, items to put on sale, or even ways to improve retention rates.
If you’re running a team brainstorm, the prompt might sound like:
“We are looking forward to the new year. So far we’ve been using sales numbers as our metrics for success. We’d like to brainstorm all the possibilities that we could track/measure to use to gauge our success. We have to come up with 100 ideas. They don’t have to be good but they do have to be able to be measured or tracked in some capacity.”
We once ran 100 Ideas during a session to come up with 100 unique Icebreaker prompts – check out the results of our 100 Ideas Brainstorm on MURAL!
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