From the course: Learning Design Thinking: Lead Change in Your Organization
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Aligning the team
From the course: Learning Design Thinking: Lead Change in Your Organization
Aligning the team
- Our work is often only as good as the working relationship within the team. Setting up that relationship well at the start of a project and along the way can be easy for leaders to forget to do or feel we already know each other well enough that we don't need to do it. This means teams often kickoff projects or phases of work focused on the product or the goals and the needs of the people who use it but without aligning on the team member goals and the team member needs. This team self-awareness is particularly important in the context of design thinking where people from different disciplines are collaborating in experimental iterations filled with a lot of creative ambiguity where we need to trust each other's intentions in order to manage the frustration that will show up. There are many avoidable issues that can arise over the course of a project. I'm sure you've heard variations of: "I didn't know you were going to be on vacation "the week before we present to the CEO" or "I'm…
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Leading design thinking4m 52s
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Challenges of leading design thinking6m
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Skill of a design thinking leader2m 46s
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Aligning the team4m 18s
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Team leap activity4m 17s
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Managing creative flow4m 52s
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Set a shared goal: Mission countdown4m 57s
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Active alignment4m 9s
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Active alignment: Check your goal3m 35s
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