Today’s topic is how to come up with brilliant ideas.
Our Entre team was split up into multiple smaller groups and every team had a personalized task regarding this topic. In our group there was me myself Gustav, Ella, Omar & Iida, AKA Luhtis.
Our team dynamic worked really well and complimented one another. We got our idea within the first 10min of us starting the meeting. The way we worked was actually kind of cool when I think about now. We didn’t have any “concreate” structure what we would’ve done before the meeting, you now just to set the foundation for the project. Instead as soon as we walked in the room and Ella opened the conversation with an idea & from that point on we appointed her to be our “team leader”. And after we got started. Everyone was equally equal in the sense that everyone would throw ideas to each other and then we would analyze the idea and then either go further with it or throw it away, and the main thing to take away from this was the speed. We did it quickly and time efficiently. As we did this whole project. There are two other great things I got away from working with our team. They were: giving everyone a task to do, and the second thing was TRUST. To us actually be accountable for the team and do the task which was given.
Suong was contemplating why there was a team leader in the creative idea project. She said “To be able to have good ideas you need to come with an open mind”. I felt that this was quite well said. The main thought behind that was at the same time right and also wrong. For people to have a space where they can come up with new brilliant business ideas, they need to have freedom. But if you don’t make a structure for those ideas that are flying, there won’t be anybody to harness them and they’ll go to waste. I think even when people say there’s no roles in the team, there still is…You maybe don’t see them at first but when you start to look closer, you’ll start noticing. Because our behavior comes from within, subconsciously. We can try to contain it but eventually we’ll break and be who we truly are and act accordingly.
Just a random thought during this lesson was that our teams dynamics work quite well when Hanna is in our presence. Just a thought and don’t really know what to make of it. I guess more Hanna then. 😀
Something that Hanna said earlier in the lesson was “viestintä epäonnistuu aina, paitsi vahingossa” which is translated to “communication fails always, except accidentally. This actually resonated a thought what Jamie went through with his team. He had made a big communication mistake when sending a LOOOOOONG message to the team and it caused some trouble at first obviously. But after that it actually led their team into success, or at least in the right direction & thinking process. Huge props for that!👍
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