‘Seeing the Point™’ is a quick and simple activity to include in a workshop about creative thinking or creative problem-solving. It is a short individual or small group activity that explores some of the thinking skills that enable us to break old patterns and establish new ones. It makes an excellent introduction to any training around innovation.

It offers an excellent opportunity to have individuals become more aware of the limiting beliefs that they carry into problem-solving processes. It can be used to explore the way in which a sudden insight or a complete change of perspective may offer a solution to a problem that appears, at first sight, to be impossible.

Use multiple sets as a ‘table-top’ warm-up at a conference.

Use them as a mental warm-up before embarking on a serious problem-solving meeting.

Build this activity into a multi-task team project: can they find the right people, and the right thinking styles, to overcome the problem?

Demonstrate in a memorable way the concept of ‘doing more with less’ : the power of teamwork and alignment in achieving results.