The focus is on personal and team creativity -how we can get a team to work together to solve complex problems and produce great ideas. This exercise is about teamwork and synergy. Participants are asked to solve a series of brain teasers on their own. After a few minutes of struggle and frustration, they are asked to solve the puzzles as a team. The valuable learning point is the concept of synergy -that one plus one is more than two in dealing with people.
People working together can accomplish a great deal more than people working individually.
We think and act based on our diverse backgrounds and experiences. People and their ideas are not good or bad, just different. Natural conflicts arise when we do not have a clear understanding of this basic fact. Once we realize why people think the way they do, their differences are not so fearful and we can more readily accept their views and opinions. If we want to have highly productive relation- ships, we must learn to accept people the way they are, not as we want them to be.