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Design Thinking & Collaborative Leadership Skills

Get the key skills you need to generate new business solutions, energize your team and bring out the best in your direct reports.

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The Key Issues

From collaboration skills to collaborative leadership behaviors, this programme gives you the roadmap to be an adaptive manager: someone who can create clarity, vision and build mutual trust with your team and other departments. It will show you how to establish a culture that operates as an open and united group, so that you can inspire optimal performance up, down and across the organization.

Design and analytical thinking

Driving change and innovation

Adapting a flexible mind-set

Key Competences​

Creating practical solutions

Mapping key stakeholders

Presenting your ideas

The Right Programme for You

As a manager, you need to inspire creativity, foster knowledge sharing, and systematically drive innovation in your team.

  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

Learn how to develop and use a repeatable process to drive rapid innovation in your organization.

Use role plays and exercises to develop an experimental mindset and embrace uncertainty.

Describe the Principles of Collaborative Leadership.

Promote a Climate for Effective Collaboration.

Engage Team Members in Collaborative Processes for Better Results.

Identify and Overcome the Derailers That Impede Effective Collaboration.

Guide Others to Resolve Conflicts in a Constructively Collaborative Way.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Understand how design thinking can improve organizational and personal performance
  • Embrace uncertainty and develop an experimental mindset to act quickly
  • Create a new process and attack problems from a completely new angle
  • Convert ideas into customer value and market opportunities
  • Release your group’s creative thinking and sharpen critical analysis skills
  • Create more progressive and practical solutions for real-world problems
  • Balance constraints and technical limitations with customer preferences
  • Develop design thinking to foster collaboration across functions of the organization
  • Learn how to use a repeatable process to drive rapid innovation each time
  • Map stakeholders and the complex network of beneficiaries
  • Customize your management style to encourage employees to find their own answers to business challenges
  • Create a culture that fosters involvement from all employees and helps break down silos and isolationism
  • Embrace social media to enhance discussions, obtain recommendations and information, network and establish relevance
  • Discover the benefits and virtues of over-communication
  • Improve accountability by allowing your employees to have ownership of the results of their efforts
  • Employ a collaborative process that is effective with all communication styles
  • Set up a framework for collaboration
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

Programme Details

Design Thinking & Collaborative Leadership Skills is a highly interactive programme with exercises and role plays.

Ten Programme Modules

  • Key design concepts
  • Main phases and steps of design thinking
  • Learn about the 10 different steps for the right definition of design thinking
  • Integrating design thinking into the fabric of your organization’s culture
  • Adding design thinking tools and templates to help your work groups ideate solutions
  • Developing a more collaborative and iterative style of work for groups/teams
  • Understanding the drivers and inhibitors of innovation
 
  • Learn about the Innovation inventory instrument
  • Learning the importance of stakeholders and interpreters
  • Leading collaborative problem-solving testing
  • Learning to envision and design collaboratively with visual imaging
  • Mapping stakeholders and the complex network of beneficiaries
  • Understanding the social-psychological aspect of user experience
  • Identify and frame the problem
  • Conduct necessary research/gather information
  • Map and analyze stakeholders
  • Analyze boundaries and potential hazards
  • Set success criteria and specifications
  • Reframe as vision for future
  • Generate ideas, select and design a concept
  • Create prototype/Model
  • Test for usability
  • Reframe to implement of re-think
 
  • Organizational Realities
  • Exploring formal methods for usability testing to form customer behavior and emotional response
  • Presenting your vision and inviting buy-in through compelling storytelling
  • Fostering an organizational climate for innovation
  • The Principles of Effective Collaboratio
  • Determine How and When to Collaborate Based on Superordinate Goal
  • Use Specific Tools to Promote a Collaborative Environment
  • Determine Which Leadership Style to Use, Based on the Situatio
  • Assess and Describe Your Effectiveness as a Leader in a Collaborative Setting
  • Determine How to Improve Your Network to Promote Collaboration
  • Lead Others to Use Effective Collaborative Processes and to Build Strong Working Relationships and Unified Teams
  • Identify Obstructions and Derailers That Block Collaboration
  • Know the Steps for Gaining Buy-In for Collaboration
 
  • Describe the Processes for Collaborative Communication
  • Develop Active Listening Skills That Promote Better Work Relationships
  • Handle Conflict in a Constructive, Collaborative Way
  • Develop your action plan for applying design thinking in your day-to-day and develop your collaborative leadership skills
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Bettina
Hausmann

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Bettina
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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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