The DesignThinkers Academy is the training arm of the DesignThinkers Group based in Amsterdam and is a globally recognised authority in Human Centred Design education.
WORKSHOP DETAILS
Confident facilitation skills are key in running successful Design Thinking workshops and sprints. This 2-Day, high energy workshop is designed for Design Thinking practitioners who already have a grounded knowledge of the Design Thinking method. The workshop aims to sharpen your facilitation skills required to achieve successful workshops within your team or organisation.
“The 2-day workshop was brilliant. It was highly practical, giving us practice facilitating groups and solving a real world problem. We left armed with a suite of great new tools, exercises and techniques to run effective workshops in the future”
Nicola HenshawDirector of Customer Experience .99
LEARN BY DOING
The Facilitation Training is very hands-on. You’ll be challenged to work in small teams working on all the different aspects of facilitating workshops. You will be using Design Thinking tools (like Stakeholder Mapping, Customer Journey Mapping and Prototyping). The focus however, will be on your personal facilitation skills of designing and facilitating Design Thinking workshops.
APPLYING THE PROCESS
The objective of the 2-Day training is to understand your current facilitation skills, your strengths and weaknesses, and to improve upon your personal opportunity areas through a combination of facilitation practice and personal coaching. You’ll learn how to effectively deal with and manage various scenarios that can occur in workshops or sprints. The activities for the 2-Day training are a balanced mix of theory and practice.
KEY LEARNINGS
After the 2 days, you’ll have honed your facilitation skills and learnt all the key tools and methods to successfully design, manage and facilitate Design Thinking workshops. Below are the key areas that will be covered in the workshop:
– Plan agenda, design and run a design thinking workshop
– Facilitating a Design Thinking workshop
– Use tools to energise and inspire teams
– Identify and manage different personality types
– Assess your own facilitation skills
– Facilitation Team Management
– Core Design Thinking Workshop flow
– Problem statement definition
– Design research
– Rapid prototyping and testing
– Energy Management
If you’d like to enquire about a design thinking course in other regions, please get in touch with Darryl: darryl@designthinkersgroup.co.nz
MEET YOUR FACILITATORS
Darryl McClay has enjoyed a highly successful career as an entrepreneur and business leader with over 25 years of experience working in the creative services sector. During his 23 years with his own creative business, he worked on a selection of the world’s biggest brands and played a key role in helping companies uncover their customers needs and applying a human centred creative process to help them connect with their audience and change behaviour. As the Managing Partner of DesignThinkers Academy NZ, he applies his strategic and creative expertise to help people build Design Thinking capabilities within their organisations so that they apply a human centred approach to problem solving and innovation. Through public and in-house workshop programmes, Darryl help’s companies create positive change and better outcomes across everything from customer experiences to organizational efficiencies to new products and services etc. He has facilitated workshops in New Zealand as well as in Europe at the international home of DesignThinkers Academy in the Netherlands.
