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BRAINSTORMING-FACILITATION5 MIN READ

Facilitator Battlecards for Derailers

Recall facilitator responses to common derailers during brainstorming sessions.

Budget derailer We do not have budget for that. Said during divergent generation before the filter phase. Your line Budget is a real filter. I am parking it for convergence; for now, what is the scrappy version of the same idea? Do not argue that budget does not matter. It does matter; it is just in the wrong phase. The line acknowledges reality, preserves divergence, and converts the constraint into a creative variation. Voting derailer Can we just vote now? Said while the board still has duplicates and half-formed notes. Almost. First we cluster duplicates so we vote on concepts,…

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