Today, business leaders are taking a hard look at how real conversations lead to problem-solving successes, and they want to know how to get their employees talking to take advantage of this news. The bottom line is that business leaders want to foster brainstorming that will target goals and spur solutions to keep their businesses growing.
Metaphor Mapping can help them to do that. Metaphor Mapping promotes teamwork and gets people to say what’s on their minds. It makes tough work fun by providing a fame-like environment. It galvanizes innovation through collaboration by eliminating some of the worry that’s commonly associated with social strictures in the workplace and that deters colleagues from sharing their valuable input.
Since reduction of anxiety is one of the most important factors for improving communication and creative problem-solving, Metaphor Mapping puts small teams together in a comfortable setting where everyone has a stake in the goings-on.
Teams get a thorough understanding of their assignments by using multi-sensory activities that appeal to the different learning styles of their members. They handle pictorial stickers and label them to identify, map out and discuss the key elements of the groups’ challenge, and together they figure out the best course of action to solve it.
A collaborative strategy setting ensures that participants perceive the environment as non-threatening and a safe place to offer insights and suggestions that can lead to sought-after solutions.
To generate a safe haven when forming groups, bring everyone together for a Metaphor Mapping workshop to define the issues they are working on and ensure that:
- Participants share equal footing and refrain from assigning leaders
- Protocols give equal access to the discussion and to promote self-regulation
- Demonstrate respect for others’ opinions
- Ensure adequate time for effective discussions to take place.
- Introduce the practice of using appositives to bolster self-confidence
A well-planned collaborative strategy setting will promote the creation of multiple high performance teams that share a vision. Metaphor Mapping will give you that edge. It will encourage participants to brainstorm realistic solutions to the challenges that they openly and respectfully identify and acknowledge.
Using Metaphor Mapping, colleagues validate each other, and that validation serves to instill a more personal, even passionate, commitment to change to effectively secure the company’s desired goal or outcome.
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