Design Thinking Training Course
Overview:
The Design Thinking (DT) methodology consists of five distinct phases: empathizing, defining the problem, ideating, prototyping, and testing.
In an increasingly complex world, we frequently encounter challenges that require specialized approaches. Design Thinking offers a framework for addressing these complex issues. By mastering this approach, individuals can manage complex problems more effectively, enhance communication, persuade more efficiently, improve business outcomes, and elevate both organizational and personal behavior and performance.
- Understanding how DT functions: learning from people and the problem at hand, identifying patterns, designing a model (including model drift), testing the model, evaluating it, and re-engineering as necessary.
- The relationship between DT, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
- Key DT methods and tools: personas, stakeholder maps, customer journey maps, service blueprints, and business model innovation.
- Practical applications of DT: fostering a design mindset, driving disruptive innovation, employing iterative approaches, using agile estimation techniques, cultivating critical thinking and problem-solving skills, enhancing teamwork and leadership readiness, improving communication skills, leveraging technology, adopting forward-thinking perspectives, building intercultural and ethical competency, developing emotional intelligence and self-awareness, refining negotiating skills, and mastering conflict resolution.
Objectives:
- To grasp the fundamentals and nuances of DT.
- To explore key concepts, factors, theories, types, and models within DT.
- To experiment with, experience, and practice DT techniques.
Delivery:
This is a one-day (4-hour) training course comprising:
- Lectures (40% - covering the presentation of theories, concepts, models, and interactive discussions),
- Group exercises (30% - focusing on group dynamics, games, group discussions, and mock conflict resolution scenarios),
- Individual activities (15% - involving writing, designing, and peer discussions),
- Other resources (15% - including videos and reading materials).
Note: Due to the collaborative nature of this course, a minimum group size of three participants is required.
This course is available as onsite live training in Mexico or online live training.Course Outline
Session 1: Introduction to Design Thinking (60 mins)
Session 2: Key concepts, theories, types, and models in DT (60 mins)
Session 3: Applying DT in daily work (60 mins)
Session 4: Impact (60 mins)
Requirements
There are no specific prerequisites for attending this course.
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