Ideal for teaching leadership, team building, or communications this exercise asks participants to develop a design for a new product that can be take to market by attracting investor support. There is one catch, though, participants must use TinkerToys® to build the prototype. Contributed by Alex Wray and Linda Naiman

Objectives:

• To exercise creativity and innovation in the design of a new product prototype
• To manage design implementation and production
• To increase awareness of the importance of participation in decision making

Group Size: 2 or more teams of 5

Time Required:

• Module One: Design (1 hour)
• Module Two: Implementation (2 hours)

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ARTHUR VANGUNDY is professor of communication at the University of Oklahoma and president of VanGundy Associates, a creativity and innovation consulting firm. He is the author of eleven books including 101 Great Games & Activities (Pfeiffer, 1998) and has been interviewed for numerous publications including Business Week, Fortune Small Business, New York Times, Science Digest, Inc., Success, and US News and World Report, and has facilitated training sessions for such organizations as Hershey Foods, S.C. Johnson, Xerox, McNeil Consumer Products, Motorola, Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals, and the Singapore government.

LINDA NAIMAN is founder of Linda Naiman & Associates Inc. a Vancouver BC, consulting and training group designed to awaken genius-level thinking through the arts, applying creativity, innovation, and visionary thinking to business strategy. She speaks about creativity and innovation at conferences in North America and Europe and her writings have appeared in her e-newsletter, Creativity at Work, and numerous business journals, including Perspectives on Global Change and the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management HR Magazine.