How to Create Brainstorming Groups With Different Personalities

Brainstorming groups are powerful tools in business and creative thinking because they represent an informal way for people to present new and fresh ideas. The best brainstorming groups include a variety of personality types. In the 1990s, psychologists Paul Costa and Jeff McCrae developed the Five-Factor Model of personality traits. A good way to create a dynamic and interesting brainstorming group is to make sure to include at least one of each main personality type.

Things You'll Need

• Paper
• Pencil
• Group of people

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Instructions

Discover Your Personality

• 1

  Examine yourself to see what best describes your personality. The first trait is extraversion versus introversion. Extraversion means you are talkative, active, affectionate and fun-loving.

  If two or more of these traits apply to you, extraversion is likely.

• 2

  Examine your openness to new experiences. Are you imaginative, creative, curious or liberal? If two or more of these traits sound like you, openness to new experience is likely.

• 3

  Examine agreeableness by asking yourself if you are trusting, generous, lenient and acquiescent.

  If two or more items apply to you, agreeableness is likely.

• 4

  Examine conscientiousness by seeing if these traits apply to you: hard-working, well-organized, punctual and persevering. If two or more items apply, then conscientiousness is likely.

• 5

  Compare results with your peers and create a group with various personality types.