This word was so impressive in my mind. More than ten years ago when I worked in one of international hotel, one training teacher from Canada gave us the lesson about the discussion the leadership. Foreign teacher was much different with our Chinese teacher, at the first 5 minutes of the class, She wrote the big word on the white board “brainstorming”, nobody knew what’s the meaning of it, I checked my dictionary under the table carefully, how come I did not find it out from it, I felt so embarrassing when she was calling me on the class, She was trying to explain the meaning in many ways, I just knew it roughly. That’ why I have never forgotten this word till today.

Brainstorming is a creative technique used by group to find possible ideas or solutions for a specific problem. Ideas are written down as members of group think of them. There is no analysis of the ideas at the time.

The most important thing is to let group members know that there are no bad ideas in brainstorming. The point is to gather as many ideas as possible. There should be no judgment ideas can be evaluated later. People should feel free to say whatever they think of. Even crazy or wild ideas – thinking outside the box – should be welcomed. You never know which ideas will turn out to be the best ones. Sometime ideas can also be combined.

Brainstorming doesn’t always generate the best ideas, but it can build trust among group members and encourage people to speak more freely without fear being judged. It can help a team come together and building a strong team.

Now I have fully understood the meaning of the word.