Posted March 8, 2010           

The second critical component of creative listening is to be tuned into the ideas that spring to mind from what you are hearing. We can’t help this, and want to use it. Like a room full of mousetraps, tossing out an idea conjures up other ideas, related and not in each and every person, and we want to make sure we capture and share these random thoughts. You must write them down, so that you don’t lose them and so that you can temporarily forget them and return to what the other group members may be saying. Jot down ideas as they occur so you can continue to be an attendant and active listener.

 

 

Then you need to interject these thoughts, incomplete as they may be, while this topic is under discussion - if the idea is in the same vein. Get them out and on the table at the time because they will be fodder for others' ideas in turn. Like the accretion of layers of ice on a ball of hail, bit by bit, more and more thoughts can be added to an idea until a real actionable concept is formed.

            

If your thought is on another tangent and would distract the conversation rather than serve to elaborate or support the it, then hold onto it and get it in as soon as the topic changes. 

            

In my experience, these are simple, not easy, but entirely necessary processes for a successful idea meeting.  

 

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