1. Better Customer Service Ideas
Lisa Lacombe

2. Brainstorming Objectives
Describe the objective(s) of the exercise:
New product or service ideas?
New feature ideas?
Feature/product naming?
Promotion ideas?
New process for doing something?
Define top requirements or restrictions. (this could be requirements of management or organizational constraints of the unit)

3. Rules No idea is a bad idea. Be creative. Take risks.
No criticism allowed.

4. Brainstorming Activity
Generate ideas
Use games and exercises to “warm up” your creative thinking
When ideas slow down, try another exercise to generate fresh ideas
Breaking into smaller groups may be helpful
Use a computer to capture every comment/idea (in Microsoft PowerPoint, of course, using Meeting Minder)

5. Summarize Review ideas
Vote on top candidates and consolidate (this can either be done at meeting or as a follow up exercise)
Check requirements and restrictions
Trim list to top 5-10 ideas

6. Next Steps Describe what happens next:
Research the ideas generated?
Follow up with larger group?
Generate action items for follow-up:
Start turning ideas into reality.

7. What was wrong with this presentation?
Ugly use of clip art
Not a great choice of text and background colors
Inconsistent fonts and placement of text are hard on the eyes and make the whole presentation more difficult to follow
Too much text on some pages causes a very crowded look and also makes the text difficult to read because it has to be made much smaller to fit all the text on a page.
Lacks overview and summary
Lacks attention grabber
One or two graphics (photo or chart) would add visual enhancement