How to Coach Yourself and Others Techniques For Coaching

 Visualise success seen from the viewpoint of fifty years from now.  Visualise success seen from the perspective of one hundred years ago.  Look for impossible and desirable ideas.  Create analogies with other things that have been successful.  Imagine and write down ideas that are wild, illegal, crazy, etc.  Insert the problem from its present scenario to a totally different scenario.  Return from the fantasy scenario to the present scenario and try to associate the ideas generated in the fantasy scenario, with ideas that might apply to the real problem.  Imagine what people we admire would say.  Search for pairs of ideas that are apparently unconnected and that can be associated by a third.  Imagine that everything exists and all we have to do is find it.  Change the level on which the problem is approached. Source: European Commission, Innovation Management Techniques in Operation, European - Commission, DG XIII, Luxembourg, 1998. Table 2: Osborn’s Checklist PUT TO OTHER USES? New ways to use as is? Other uses if modified? ADAPT What else is like this? What other idea does this suggest? Does past offer parallel? What could I copy? Whom could I emulate? MODIFY New twist? Change meaning, colour, motion, sound, odour, form, shape? Other changes? 464

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