Fishbone Diagram for Virtual Group Brainstorming
Virtual brainstorming is hard. It relies on people working together in sync. You don’t have a whiteboard as you would normally have to have people openly put up postits and feel like they can actively contribute.
(The original full-length post starts with what is a fishbone diagram here)
Using Google Hangouts or zoom meetings are good but for a facilitator, it can be very difficult to squeeze ideas out of people. We previously discussed how you can use ice breakers for virtual meetings to get people engaged but what is the next step to continue engagement?
You can create fishbones with PowerPoint and share your screen looking for inputs but it’s really just one person driving the conversation and lacks engagement you would get in real life.
How do you get virtual teams to engage in brainstorming?
The solution is to use virtual whiteboard tools such as miro. You can see the people interacting with the diagram below. One of my favourite features is actually seeing peoples name as they interact so you can discuss on the zoom meeting while the person is making the changes.
This works really, especially when you are writing out effects using the 5 why method mentioned above.
