The Sequence - a Creative Thinking Quiz

All energisers and ice breakers simply must have a meaning, a link to the session or to a phrase that pays.  This one is no different and points to creative thinking or thinking "outside the box"

It can also help to remove limiting beliefs that people hold.

 Equipment you will need

• Handouts pre-printed.  Click here to download the handout in Word format

Trainer Instructions

• Invite the group to form teams of 2 or 3 people each, no bigger
• Hand out the quiz sheet and give them 10 minutes to complete the answers on the sheet
• Offer a prize for the winning team
• No mention of creativity.

Debrief

• Share the answers with the group
• Draw out from the groups what they learnt from the quiz now they know the answers.  Agree that thinking outside the box would have given them the correct solutions as much of the time we tend to tackle problems in the same manner with the same mindset as previously used.
• Ask if anyone in the teams had a limiting beliefs before they tackled the problems e.g. a fear of maths, if so did they overcome them.

Variations

• You can give the answers to the first question and if the teams are completely stymied on the next answers, let them tackle them again, now they have been told about "thinking outside the box"
• You'll be amazed as to how this motivates teams to finish the quiz