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title: 4 Ways to Imagine New Ideas in a Judgy Workplace
description: four potential remedies to combat the judgment involved in sharing new ideas at your workplace. Why you shouldn't presuppose new ideas are going to be
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# [4 Ways to Imagine New Ideas in a Judgy Workplace](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/4-ways-to-imagine-new-ideas-in-a-judgy-workplace)

 Written by [Mike Brown](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/author/mike-brown) | Mar 7, 2014 10:50:40 AM

If your workplace is characterized by immediate judgment when people offer new ideas, you have my sympathies. 

### Trying to Imagine New Ideas in a Judgy Workplace

<http://www.drawastickman.com/#>Here are four potential remedies to combat the judgment involved in sharing new ideas at your workplace.

1. [Why you shouldn't presuppose new ideas are going to be great](https://www.brainzooming.com/looking-for-the-elusive-big-idea/664/)
2. [Paving the way for successfully crowdsourcing ideas](https://www.brainzooming.com/crowdsourcing-diverse-input-3-ways-to-make-crowdsourcing-work-harder/10401/)
3. [Successfully sharing and receiving creative ideas](https://www.brainzooming.com/creative-thinking-skills-6-tips-for-sharing-and-receiving-creative-ideas/20783/)
4. [Evaluating and prioritizing new ideas at the right time](https://www.brainzooming.com/convergent-thinking-week-4-ways-to-narrow-and-prioritize-possibilities/940/)

And to lighten things up a bit, here's a fun feature to brighten your creativity - [go draw a stickman](http://www.drawastickman.com/#)! *- [Mike Brown](https://www.brainzooming.com/about-brainzooming/mike-brown/)*

 

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