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Design Thinking III – Facilitation (ILT/VILT)

Do you want to design and facilitate Design Thinking workshops and processes? As a Creative Facilitator, you enable teams to work together constructively and quickly achieve substantial, creative results.

Seminar Description

The three-day Facilitation Training provides in-depth skills in facilitating Design Thinking workshops. You switch from the perspective of a participant to the role and mindset of a facilitator. You learn how to guide creative processes, how to promote inclusive collaboration, and how to deal with different team dynamics. You moderate divergent and convergent phases, resolve conflicts, and encourage the participation of all team members. As a team, you design your own Design Thinking workshop, which you present at the end of the seminar and moderate an exemplary part. You receive facilitation techniques for all phases of the Design Thinking process. This will help you support teams in correctly applying the methods in Design Thinking projects.

Learning Objectives

  • Facilitate Design Thinking workshops, guide and structure creative processes in divergent and convergent phases.
  • Recognize and purposefully moderate team dynamics to promote productive collaboration and constructively resolve conflicts.
  • Apply methods to promote inclusion and active participation of all team members in workshops.
  • Design a complete Design Thinking workshop that covers the entire process from problem definition to testing.
  • Independently moderate parts of a workshop and receive valuable feedback.

Seminar Contents (3 Days)

Day 1 – Basics of Facilitation & Moderation of the Problem Space

» Role and attitude as facilitator, moderator & coach
» Communication techniques and tasks of the facilitator
» Promoting team dynamics, inclusion and participation
» Moderation of divergent & convergent phases
» Moderation of divergent & convergent phases
» Facilitation of the research phase with practical exercises
» Use of moderation and collaboration tools (Miro, MURAL etc.)
» Physical vs. digital workshops: advantages and disadvantages

Day 2 – Moderation of the Solution Space & Workshop Design

» Promoting creativity: methods & neuroscientific foundations
» Facilitation of ideation, prototyping & testing
» Conflict resolution & handling difficult team dynamics
» Basics of workshop design: goals, time planning & method selection
» Group work: Development of own workshop concepts
» Feedback & reflection on the concepts

Day 3 – Presentation & Facilitation in Practice

» Fine-tuning of workshop concepts
» Presentation & live implementation of a workshop part
» Feedback from trainer & participants
» Reflection: Transfer to your own work routine

Methods

Interactive lecture, team and individual work, work on collaboration boards, use of creative media, creativity methods, prototype building, user tests, role-plays, play, experience exchange and reflection, practical project, live facilitation, feedback.

Benefits of the Seminar

For You Personally:

  • Moderation competence: Confidently guide creative group processes with flexible method application.
  • Personal development: Better handling of team dynamics and conflicts.
  • Professional repertoire: Tools and techniques for successful physical and virtual workshops.
  • Confident appearance: More self-confidence through practical exercises and feedback.
  • Practical knowledge: Independent application of the entire Design Thinking process.

For Your Company:

  • Efficient innovation processes: Faster results through targeted moderation.
  • Better teamwork: Stronger collaboration and conflict resolution through understanding of roles and inclusion.
  • Flexible application: Methods transferable to various projects and company requirements.
  • More creativity & innovation: Structured approach leads to valuable solution approaches.
  • Sustainable integration: Long-term establishment of Design Thinking in agile work fields.

Participation Requirements

The Design Thinking III – Facilitator Training is aimed at anyone who intends to facilitate user-centered innovation projects using Design Thinking. Those who want to facilitate pure creative processes can also request this training.

If you are seeking certification as a Design Thinking Facilitator, you should have completed our Design Thinking I – Basics and Design Thinking II – Advanced training or have completed comparable training with another provider.

Workshop Information

The info PDF on our Design Thinking trainings (Download Pdf)

Participants

Innovators in strategy, product, and HR areas, IT professionals and organizational developers, consultants and coaches who want to expand their range of methods. Agile teams, companies, agencies, organizations, NGOs.

Maximum 10 people

OPEN TRAINING

Dates 2024/25

Currently only available for in-house booking.

For in-house trainings, we’d be happy to make you an offer. Simply send your inquiry to this email address: office@corecreate.de

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