During online, collaborative meeting sessions, a project team is consistently in consensus, which is causing a creativity roadblock. Which of the following can the facilitator do to minimize this…

Enabling chat in an online meeting provides a parallel communication channel where participants can share thoughts, ideas, questions, or even dissenting opinions without interrupting the main speaker or feeling pressure to conform. This can encourage a broader range of contributions, facilitate brainstorming, and help break artificial consensus by allowing more varied input.

Distributing surveys would gather input asynchronously, but it doesn't foster the real-time, interactive debate and idea generation needed to overcome a creativity roadblock during a live collaborative session.

Meeting face-to-face is not always feasible for online sessions and doesn't inherently solve the problem of groupthink or lack of diverse input.

Using a whiteboard is good for visual collaboration but might not inherently encourage dissenting opinions or break groupthink if the same dynamic persists.