Another way to leverage the team’s collective genius and encourage them to solve problems themselves in the future is to include them in the brain- storming process by asking them a powerful question or two, such as: “How would you like it to be?” “If you were me what would you do first?” “What would be your backup plan?” “If there were absolutely no constraints, what would you do?” “How could we make this fun or, at least, bearable?” “What assumptions do we have that might not be true?”
