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

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Skill of a design thinking leader

Skill of a design thinking leader

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

Start my 1-month free trial

Skill of a design thinking leader

“

- As a leader of a team it's often tempting to focus on how the team is doing, are they getting things done, do they seem to be collaborating well, is the work they are producing 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. That's what you're seeking to foster in your teams. So what skills do you need to help that happen? At the very highest level, I think you need two things. Confidence in your own judgment, so that you don't need to seek outside security in an answer or the one solution. With this confidence, you allow and encourage optimism of the team, and you give them the freedom to experiment. This confidence…

Contents