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.Off they go into the night.Their goal: the castle ball.Their plan: sneak intothe castle kitchen and offer the pumpkin for dessert.Being visually challenged, the mice can t see too well, however.Instead ofgoing to the castle, they go to a poor farmer s cottage.The farmer s wife chasesaway the mice with her carving knife.(Did you ever see such a sight in your life?)Unfortunately, Mrs.Farmer slips on the mice tails and falls on her knife.Thefarmer rushes in to say goodbye to his dying wife and decides to make a pumpkinpie with the pumpkin the nice mice brought.The Fairy Godmother has been watching all of this.She sees the farmer raisehis dead wife s knife to carve the pumpkin.Suddenly there is a.POOF! Thepumpkin turns into a beautiful maiden, thanks to FG.The farmer is awed by Cin-der s beauty and asks her to marry him.Cinder agrees and they decide to toasteach other with pumpkin punch in the punch bowl.While he leaves the house to bury his ex-wife, Cinder picks up the dipper and101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving.Copyright © 2005 by John Wiley &Sons, Inc.Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an Imprint of Wiley.www.pfeiffer.comFree Association Activities: Blue Skies 187TLFeBOOK 07 VG 167-216 10/6/04 12:17 PM Page 188begins to pour some punch into a cup.The dipper slips and crashes to the ground,breaking into two pieces.Cinder panics and picks up one of the pieces, turns onher left slipper, and bolts out the door with the mice in hot pursuit.The farmerhears all the commotion and returns to the cottage in time to see Cinder runningaway with the not-so-nice mice in pursuit and Cinder holding the remainder ofthe dipper.He pushes away a lock of his hair and then vows, to no one in particu-lar: Somehow, someday, I ll find the fair maiden with the glass dipper! Based on this story, here are a few sample ideas for reducing employee theft:" Install hidden video cameras that record everything employees do (from visuallychallenged mice )." Have a subliminal audiotape that periodically reminds employees not to steal (from stepsisters.tell her to bake a pumpkin pie instead )." Use voice-recognition locks on storage areas where too many keys might exist (from laugh in her face )." Provide rewards to customers who report incidents of theft (from they decide totoast each other )." Have weekly tea or coffee breaks where managers solicit theft-reduction ideas (from pour some punch into a cup )." Install body temperature sensors that notify security whenever an unauthorizedemployee enters an off limits area (from bolts out the door with the mice in hotpursuit )." Offer a free makeover for employees who report shoplifting or theft (from Thepumpkin turns into a beautiful maiden )." Recruit an employee from another division to work undercover and report on theftproblems (from sneak into the castle kitchen )." Install locks with retina identification that works only with certain employees analarm sounds if anyone else tries to open the locks (from her magic wand only workswith mice and pumpkins)." Have all employees submit to a voice stress analyzer to determine if they are tellingthe truth about theft (from The farmer rushes in to say goodbye to his dying wife ).101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving.Copyright © 2005 by John Wiley &Sons, Inc.Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an Imprint of Wiley.www.pfeiffer.com101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving188TLFeBOOK 07 VG 167-216 10/6/04 12:17 PM Page 18941Idea LinksBackgroundWe all generate ideas using free association.In fact, many of the activities in this book arebased on it.We generate one idea, use it to generate another idea, use it for another, andso forth until we have generated all we can or that time allows.Unlike other free-associa-tion activities, however, Idea Links requires free association in a specific direction, begin-ning with the action verb and working toward the object in the challenge statement.Thegoal is to direct associations to end up with a link to the object.Objectives" To help participants generate as many creative ideas as possible" To help participants learn how to use the activities to generate ideasParticipantsSmall groups of four to seven people eachMaterials, Supplies, and Equipment" For each group: markers, two flip charts, and masking tape for posting flip-chartsheets" For each participant: one sheet each of three different colors of sticking dots(1D 2 diameter) and one pad of 4 x 6 Post-it® NotesHandout" Idea Links HandoutTime20 minutesFree Association Activities: Blue Skies 189TLFeBOOK 07 VG 167-216 10/6/04 12:17 PM Page 190Related Activities" Noun Hounds [29]" Skybridging [46]Procedure1.Distribute the Idea Links Handout, review the exercise example with the partici-pants, and answer any questions they may have.2.Tell each group to tape together two sheets of flip-chart paper, end to end, to awall or other hard surface such as a table.They should tape together the ends thatmeet so there is one continuous sheet.3.Have them write down their problem statement on another sheet of flip-chartpaper so that it incorporates an action verb and an object.4.Tell them to write the verb on the left side of taped-together paper and the objecton the right side.5.Instruct them to draw five, six-inch lines to the right of the first word so that thelast line ends just before the object word (see the exercise handout).6.Direct the participants to take turns free-associating a word from the verb andwrite it on the first line; the next person then uses this word to free-associate andwrite the word on the second line; and so forth.7.Have them continue to free-associate from one word to another, writing eachword on one of the lines, and make the final word link to the object.8.Tell the groups to review all the associations and use them to trigger new ideas,writing them on Post-it® Notes and placing them on flip-chart paper for evalua-tion.9.If time is available or you want to generate more ideas, have the groups repeatSteps 4 through 9.Debrief/DiscussionIdea Links can be a fun technique as well as a creative thinking exercise.It is easy to useand can result in many ideas.It also would be ideal as a warmup exercise to loosen upparticipants.An interesting question to ask is whether or not participants found them-selves evaluating their free associations.If done correctly, there should be no judgingabout the correctness of a free association [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]