How to Coach Yourself and Others Essential Knowledge For Coaching

 allowing delegates to leave blanks against certain delegates names  limiting the number of ideas required to be guessed for each delegate  stating a maximum number of perspectives  allocating responsibility to each delegate to think about certain named delegates  and in any event giving a time limit for each stage of the activity As with any team building or team working activity, the facilitator needs to be able to assess progress and to adapt, adjust and give clarifying or steadying guidelines during the activity to maintain the group's focus and effectiveness. At the fifth stage, all participants will in their own way be thinking in a highly complex fashion. The participants minds are acting as mirrors creating multiple reflections of each other, rather like the few small objects inside a kaleidoscope creating wonderful arrays and patterns. Hence the 'Kaleidoscope Brainstorming' description. It is easy to imagine how using this process the number of ideas generated are many times more than when using normal brainstorming techniques. Dr Murthy reports that typically after a number of Kaleidoscope Brainstorming sessions a group experiences an 'asymptotic approximation of their thinking process'. (Asymptotic refers to the 'asymptotic' effect whereby two or more things increasingly converge as if to become joined and together, but never actually join or become one). He says this is enabled by successive convergence and cross-fertilization among a group or team of each members thinking process, thoughts and ideas. He adds interestingly that groups ultimately do not need to be talking to 1180

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