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Leadership Workshop Series
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DESIGN LEADERSHIP FOR INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS
Conventional wisdom dictates that becoming a manager is an essential rung in the career ladder. But traditional paths aren’t the only way to leadership. This design leadership series helps senior creatives develop tools for collaborating effectively with cross-functional partners, influencing senior managers, and supporting other creatives in the delivery of great craft.
4 four-hour sessions
DESIGN LEADERSHIP FUNDAMENTALS
Our most popular workshop helps new managers leverage their design skills for leadership success, while providing insight into management fundamentals. You will identify your leadership profile, learn how to deliver effective feedback to foster team performance, explore how to structure your team, and much more.
3 five-hour sessions
DESIGN LEADERSHIP FUNDAMENTALS II
Building on the basics in Design Leadership Fundamentals I, this workshop will expand your leadership awareness and provide new approaches to scale your impact and influence. We’ll explore important modes and mindsets for dynamic leadership, learn to lead through others, and master the art of delegation.
4 four-hour sessions
DESIGNING BUSINESSES
As creatives, we believe in the value of design. But to amplify its visibility and impact, we need to integrate our creative practices with the objectives of the business.
This design leadership training helps creatives at all levels develop basic business acumen and perspectives that apply directly to their day-to-day responsibilities. It’s an extremely accessible workshop that helps participants understand common business terms and acronyms and make the connection between business and design.
4 four-hour sessions
LEADING CHANGE
Graceful, courageous leadership through change can seem nearly impossible in uncertainty. However, it’s an inevitable challenge any leader in a rapidly changing industry or hyper growth company must face.
You will learn to manage through significant organizational and company shifts, show up authentically as a leader in challenging times, and how to build resilience for yourself and your team.
3-4 four-hour sessions
DESIGNING DESIGN TEAMS
Great design leaders take into consideration the best practices across the industry, then adapt them to architect a design organization that fits the needs of their company. This design leadership workshop helps managers create a personalized plan to recruit, structure, level, and develop a successful design team.
4 to 6 four-hour sessions
COACHING CREATIVES
Move beyond direction to unlock the potential of your team. As creatives transition into leadership, they often rely on directing and problem-solving as a primary interaction mode with their teams. Over the course of two days, you will develop skills to introduce a new mode of leadership into your practice to help your team thrive.
4 four-hour sessions
LEADING FROM WITHIN
What does it take for a leader to show up as their true self? This design leadership workshop reconnects designers with their natural abilities as leaders. Participants learn new methods for influencing others, identify and align around their core values, and explore the narratives that are holding them back so that they can move beyond.
3 four-hour sessions