From the course: Empathy in Business: Design for Success
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Make your own workshop
From the course: Empathy in Business: Design for Success
Make your own workshop
- You can make your own empathy workshop in your place of business too. The most important aspect of it is to bring a large group of people together and make random pairs. Then come up with something unrelated to the work that you all do, that they can do together. I recommend that it's something creative involving art supplies, because let's be real, everyone loves art supplies. The participants will not and really should not all be designers. It's better to do it with people who never get to play with colors as part of their job. A terrible statistic I heard when my son was in Little League was that 75% of kids stop playing sports by age 12 because they're not good enough. The statistics for making art are even worse. A client of mine, an organization called StoryCorps, actually created questions to help you engage with people in all sorts of situations. They're called great questions. For example, I'm never sure…
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