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# [Change the Room Around!](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/change-the-room-around)

 Written by [Mike Brown](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/author/mike-brown) | Jun 23, 2009 9:50:00 AM

I downloaded this menu of standard meeting room layouts from a hotel where [a strategic thinking session](http://brainzooming.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-creating-strategic-perspective.html) had been scheduled. Quite frankly nearly all of these layouts could be big inhibitors to innovative thinking. Put people in a conventional room arrangement, and you foster conventional thinking.

<https://www.brainzooming.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/090117+Hotel+Room+Layouts-May-25-2022-01-22-38-59-PM.jpg>What can you do? Work with [the hotel](http://brainzooming.blogspot.com/2008/08/looking-for-good-time-get-hotel-room.html) (ahead of time, ideally) to come up with a room layout that's anything but standard:

- Avoid lines of tables & chairs, especially parallel and perpendicular to walls
- Get round or square tables and arrange them randomly
- Scatter work areas
- Get a room that has way more space per person than the hotel recommends

All of these steps create a space for people to think, interact, walk around, and innovate!

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