Design Thinking workshop
Course Description
Design Thinking workshops are all about collaboration and problem-solving. As a leader, you might hold a Design Thinking workshop with your direct team in order to tackle a tough design challenge you’ve been struggling with. However, Design Thinking workshops are used to teach professionals how to innovate and problem-solve. Throughout your career, you might find yourself running Design Thinking workshops for clients—going into different organizations and showing them how they can apply Design Thinking to their own business challenges. Design Thinking can be applied to all areas of our business, and a Design Thinking workshop can be useful for everyone—from marketing, product, and sales, right through to the C-level.
1 Day
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Delivery
A Design Thinking workshop is a hands-on, activity-based session built around the Design Thinking process. Most often, these are conducted in person.The duration of the course can vary depending on the context and the goals of the Workshop.
Purpose
Based on the De Bono principles of Design Thinking, a Design Thinking workshop focuses on empathy - getting to grips with a problem and building empathy for the target users and customers. We focus on innovation, problem-solving and generating as many ideas and potential solutions as possible.Why do Design Thinking workshops
As an organisation, incorporating Design Thinking into your process will help you to quickly come up with viable, user-centric solutions—ultimately resulting in a quicker time-to-market, improved customer retention, significant cost savings, and a great ROI. Design Thinking workshops enable you to spread this value across your organisation (or your client’s organisation).Course Objectives
At the end of the workshop participants will have :Learned the methodology of Design Thinking
Learned and practised some of the core methods
Develop key leadership skills to drive a better organisation
Benefits
• It teaches people how to problem-solve. Problem solving is a key skill that everyone should master. A Design Thinking workshop teaches problem solving in action, giving the workshop participants an approach they can apply to almost any challenge in any area of their lives.• It fosters innovation and teamwork: The very essence of Design Thinking lies in collaboration and thinking outside the box. A Design Thinking workshop breaks down silos and shows participants how to challenge their assumptions—a melting pot for innovation!
• It helps secure a competitive advantage: A Design Thinking workshop may result in ground-breaking solutions that will set our organisation apart—but competitive products aren’t the only takeaway. Design Thinking workshops teach creative thinking, which is increasingly seen as a competitive advantage when applied at a strategic level.
• Most importantly it is fun we learn more when we are enjoying ourselves!
Who should attend
The workshop is recommended for all those in an organisation who want to get a senior management overview of the concepts, tools and methodologies of business transformation using Lean and Six Sigma.This course is suitable for senior managers, department managers, internal consultants, change agents and senior project managers who will be responsible for directing, managing and reviewing the performance of change agents such as Black Belts, Green Belts and Yellow Belts who will be delivering Lean Six Sigma projects.
Preparing for the workshop
In advance of our workshop we need to:• Scope out the challenge and set workshop objective(s)
• Find a suitable location
• Plan the agenda (including time slots for each activity)
• Gather all necessary materials
Sample Agenda for a Day
Agenda of the dayIntroduction
Scope the challenges
Set Objectives
Leadership
Who we are Activity
Introduction to Design thinking and 6 thinking hats
Empathy Mapping
Problem definition
Problem solving and ideas
Customer Journey mapping high level
Test Solutions
How to implement
ManagementLeadershipDesign ThinkingDeBonoChange Management