Powerful comparisons are important to many creative thinking exercises. While the types of comparisons may vary, for the more than twenty-five “Change Your Character” creative thinking exercises on the Brainzooming blog, delegating an opportunity or challenge to someone you wouldn’t typically think about selecting to do your work yields a wide variety of creative ideas.
Creative Ideas from an Unlikely Character?
The Change Your Character creative thinking exercises use someone in a completely different line of work to help you look at your own situation with a fresh perspective.
Here are the steps for Change Your Character:
- State the business challenge that you’re addressing – it could be an opportunity, a problem, a new process or approach, etc.
- Pick who you want to work on your situation. This could be a real person, a fictional or cartoon character, or even another business that faces an analogous situation.
- Once you’ve identified who you’ll put on the job, list 8 to 10 approaches that the person, character, or business uses to address opportunities or challenges.
- Using the 8 to 10 approaches, apply them to your situation to generate at least 3 new ideas each for solving it.
Each of the Change Your Character creative thinking exercises does steps 2 and 3 for you. This allows you to focus primarily on step 4 – creative idea generation.
25 "Change Your Character" Creative Thinking Exercises
Here's a compilation of 25 of these creative thinking exercises you can bookmark for use in successfully addressing future opportunities. Within each category, the situations and characters covered are listed, along with a link to the original article.
Strategy
Relationship & Brand Building
Team Building
Management & Problem Solving
Professional Skills
Just a note - I used Bart Simpson recently, and it worked very well. Give it a try and have great success Changing Your Character! – Mike Brown
