Find a way to save your and your team’s ideas.
For some distributed teams, using a good project management and collaboration tool can do this. When Leigh Thompson wrote about this idea, she pointed out that virtual collaboration tools make it so much easier to record all ideas so that these can be retrieved and used later.
Here’s the link: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/virtual-collaboration-wont-be-the-death-of-creativity
“No idea is a bad idea” is a great reminder to share at the start of every brainstorming session with your team. Add this as well: “Keep idea vaults and boneyards.”
(Have I mentioned our GO-VA developers have built one such tool specifically designed for distributed teams?)