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How to Help Left Brainers Tap Into Their Innate Creativity
On sparking the imagination of even the most analytical people
If your job requires you to lead meetings, brainstorming or problem solving sessions, chances are good that most of the people you come in contact with are left-brain dominant: analytical, logical, linear folks with a passion for results and a huge fear that the meeting you are about to lead will end with a rousing chorus of kumbaya.
Not exactly the kind of mindset conducive to breakthrough thinking.
Do not lose heart, oh facilitator of the creative process! Even if you find yourself in a room full of 100 left-brainers, there are many ways to work with this mindset in service to bringing out the very best of the group’s collective genius.
1. Diffuse the fear of ambiguity by continually clarifying the process
Most left-brain-dominant people hate open-ended processes and anything that smacks of ambiguity. Always give participants, early in any session you facilitate, a mental map of the process you’ll be using.
