Creative Thinking Strategy 2: Make Your Thoughts Visible

Often times geniuses prefer to think visually. It helps to put pen to paper in order to formulate problems and develop solutions. Using a Force Field Diagram helps to better define challenges and identify strengths and weaknesses you can maximize or mitigate. Visually, this diagram makes it easy to identify positive and negative forces associated with a given problem.  

Results, lessons learned, identified solutions:

     It doesn’t take long to interpret this force field diagram. It is clear that there are many areas of recruiting not being taken advantage of by CAPs. Look at all of those “X’s” on the right side of the diagram!

    This creative thinking technique was helpful in that it better defined the specific aspects of recruiting that need improvement. It helped to put pen to paper. And it helped to think about even more aspects of recruiting that I hadn’t thought about in the fishbone diagram.