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Building your skills in leading a design thinking team

Building your skills in leading a design thinking team

From the course: Learning Design Thinking: Lead Change in Your Organization

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Building your skills in leading a design thinking team

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As a leader of a team, it's often tempting to focus only on how the team is doing. Are they getting things done? Are they collaborating well? Is the work produced clear? It's harder to reflect on yourself and to dig into how you impact the team. Understanding the skills of a leader in an effective, creative problem-solving environment, and your own relationship with those skills is crucial to developing your own leadership. So design thinking is making-based problem solving by collaborative teams, working from a shared mindset that's experimental, human-centered, and optimistic. So what skills do you need to help that happen? At the highest level, you need two things: confidence and presence. Confidence in your own judgment so that you don't need to seek the security of an answer right now. With this confidence, you allow and encourage the optimism of the team and you give them the freedom to experiment. This confidence in your own judgment is, however, quite different from being sure…

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