How to Evaluate Ideas
I’m fortunate to work with people who are both smart and creative in many different spheres. Sometimes that can lead to a lot of pulling in different directions though and projects flounder as we try to figure out which idea or suggestion is better.
I came across an article from Fast Company yesterday called Unconventional Cures for Meeting-itis. While we already implement many of the ideas (with some success) it was a comment from David Molden of Quadrant 1 that struck a chord in me.
I attended my first NLP workshop when I was in high school but don’t remember coming across this one that he states every NLP practitioner learns.
I’ve included the list here:
Guidelines to Evaluating New Ideas and Suggestions
- Outcome (does this relate to our outcomes stated at the beginning?)
- Backtrack (what was previously said about this?)
- Relevance (is this pertinent?)
- Evidence (what data/facts back up your claim?)
- Comparison (how does this compare with (x)?)
- What if? (let’s just imagine if we could)
- Discovery (maybe we need some creative input here)
- Ecology (how might this decision affect the wider system?)
