Both traditional brainstorming and the nominal group technique can be used at any phase of the problem-solving process

List the four ways that a speaker should formulate the content for a speech to entertain

What will be an ideal response?

Your office improvement committee at work has thoroughly discussed the problem of a noisy office environment. Now they are starting to generate possible solutions, but are getting bogged down by criticism against ideas presented by certain people. What advice would help your group in this situation?

A) They should back up and make sure that everyone clearly understands the problem B) They should consider anonymous brainstorming C) They should simply vote on which solution is the most feasible D) They should write down the pros and cons of each idea to better judge their efficacy.