Brainstorming sessions. They’re the best thing going for getting ideas on the table fast, but they’re difficult. Is it an art or a science? Yes, both. And when you brainstorm for poll question ideas, brainstorming sessions take on a very different dimension.
Brainstorming itself is easy enough to do. It may tax your mental capacity greatly, but usually brainstorming sessions are short and very focused.
The two main qualities in brainstorming is concentration and intense focus. You reject no ideas initially; you record them all. Write everything down or record the session. Use a whiteboard if necessary.
To emphasize, you never reject an idea (initially) because it’s a bad idea or undoable. That comes later. The idea is to increase the positive flow of information.
Sessions tend to last from five or ten minutes to a full week (Twitter was formed out of an intense brainstorming session that lasted an entire day). Your sessions should be intense and focused. It’s like a brain dump and that’s good because those five or ten minute sessions will be very productive.
To get all you can out of a brainstorming session, try to create a free environment, one that is clutter-free and organized. Brainstorming sessions typically have groups of three to seven people. That’s the ideal. Keeping the group tiny helps to keep the focus clearer.
Next you’ll want to brainstorm ideas for potential poll questions. You may be the three to seven people! That’s okay because you can work with you!
Keep the sessions short and focused. Five to ten minutes at a time will generate a lot of ideas. Choose a general category: religion, politics, sports, current news, that sort of thing. You may want to focus even more: for religion, choose one. For sports, choose a particular sport, for current news or politics, choose a current problem.
Now you’re ready to associate, brain dump, and record. Here’s how such a poll question brainstorming session could go: Sports leads to baseball, which leads to a steroids, which leads to a big name who’s admitted to taking steroids. From there you’ll need to determine if there’s anything in the sporting news section about steroids or the big names in Baseball. Then you carefully craft a question that talks about steroids and the big names taking them.
As you do this more often, you’ll get better at it and it will be be easier. Be careful, though, because brainstorming is easy to take shortcuts with. Chances are good that you’ll uncover some other You may reveal several other questions that you can use later down the line. Five to ten minutes every time you do a poll is all it takes.
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