The facilitator skills needed for a successful creative thinking session are very different to chairperson or a normal meeting facilitator skills. They revolve around a deep awareness of how creativity works in the brain and in behavioural terms.

Key are the rules of brainstorming. There are the obvious ground rules of brainstorming that we all know and love and it is the facilitator's main core purpose, to ensure these rules are adhered to.

• Don’t be judgmental (until later, a different stage of the process)
• Quantity not Quality
• Build on Other’s Ideas
  
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