Design Thinking Facilitation

Discover the tools and techniques you need for effective facilitation. With personal coaching and feedback throughout, you’ll be able to use your strengths to motivate others.
 
Learn how to:
 
1. Plan, design and run a design thinking workshop.
2. Use tools to energise and inspire the group.
3. Identify and manage different personality types.
4. Assess your own facilitation skills.
5. Apply facilitation skills to your work environment.

• Day 1: PRACTICE

  You’ll start by exploring the main skills of facilitation, before trying them out on a challenge that runs across the two days. Led by P&G’s design thinking guru Arnoud Koning and his team, you’ll facilitate one of three design thinking activities. How will you guide your group towards a solution? What can you do to keep them motivated? How will you manage a team member who’s role-playing a personality type? With group discussion after each session, you can reflect on your learning and incorporate it as you go.

• Day 2: PROGRESS

  Day two develops your facilitation skills further in more advanced sessions. Alongside hands-on practice, you’ll analyse how your approach can affect the group’s productivity. There will also be time to discuss your own projects, so that you leave the course with techniques you can apply at work. Throughout, our coaches will observe you in action and suggest ways for you to take your skills to the next level.

  Each delegate will be given the opportunity to have a 30 minute follow-up phone call with one of the coaches a few weeks after the session.

Q. Why Design Thinking?

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At the Design Thinkers Academy London, we recognise the huge and immediate challenges that businesses currently face.  Now, more than ever, we need to face the world with a new mindset, realising that the traditional formulas that have served companies so steadily for generations, might not be the right answer for the new reality that faces us all. We want to offer an opportunity for you to become proactive and to meet these challenges head on. This is about understanding the new user that the world faces and building the right solutions for them. Design Thinking offers the perfect opportunity to develop your skill set for the future and be in the best placed position to prepare your business to flourish going forward. 

Q. What safety precautions will be taken in regards to Covid-19?

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In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have made a number of changes to how our in-person courses will be run. This means smaller groups taking part from our own studio in South London in a controlled environment. Our studio space in an ex-factory with high ceilings and good natural light. It can be accessed via the District Line, which runs above ground in this part of London, and is located in a quiet area where streets and public transport are very rarely crowded.

Click on this link to find out more about our covid health and safety measures.

Q. Are meals provided?

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We provide lunch every day, plus a variety of snacks to keep you going. Let us know if you’re vegetarian or on a special diet.

Q. Is it a residential course?

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No. If you’re from out of town, you’ll need to book your own accommodation. But we can suggest nearby hotels if you need us to.

Q. Do you offer concession prices for your sessions?

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We do offer concessions and a sliding scale of discounts on this course. Pay full price for the first space you book, 10% off the second and third, and 15% off every space you book after that. If you’re booking a lot of spaces, you may want to talk to us about tailoring a course especially for your business. Call us on +44 7711 068 553 or email bookings@designthinkersacademy.co.uk to find out how we can help you.