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How can you facilitate a design thinking workshop?

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Design thinking is a creative problem solving approach that helps you generate and test innovative solutions for complex challenges. A design thinking workshop is a collaborative and interactive session where you and your team use various tools and techniques to explore a problem, ideate, prototype, and get feedback. But how can you facilitate a design thinking workshop effectively? Here are some tips to help you plan, prepare, and run a successful workshop.

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Set a clear goal:

Start with a "How might we..." question to define your problem and focus on user needs. This aligns the team from the outset and ensures everyone is working towards a common objective.### *Engage participants effectively:Use icebreakers, open-ended questions, and visual aids to create an interactive environment. This fosters collaboration and keeps the energy high throughout the workshop.

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1 Define the goal

Before you start the workshop, you need to have a clear and specific goal that guides your activities and outcomes. What is the problem you want to solve? Who are the users or customers you want to serve? What are the constraints and criteria for success? Write down your goal as a question that starts with "How might we..." and share it with your team and stakeholders. This will help you focus on the user needs and the value proposition of your solution.

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Marketing Consultant of the Year (North West) 2024 | Marketing Manager: Value Match | Trustee: M2 SPED Awareness | Student: Keele - MSc Management with Marketing | MCIM
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One method I've often employed is the "5 Whys" technique. By repeatedly asking "why" to every problem statement, we can delve deeper into the root issue, refining the goal at each step. This is not only sharpens the focus but aligns the team to understand the challenge ahead.

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Gijsbertus J.J. van Wulfen

Innovation keynote speaker, Number One Thought Leader Design Thinking 2024, LinkedIn Top Voice helping you and your organisation, to become amazing innovators with keynotes, workshops, and a proven innovation method.
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The BEST PRACTICE in the proven design thinking FORTH innovation method is to draft before the start if each project a so-called: INNOVATION ASSIGNMENT. How? When you answer together with all the stakeholders (3-5 persons) the following questions you get a clear picture of what innovation has got to deliver at the end: 1. Why do we need to innovate? 2. What are we looking for? 3. Who is the target group? 4. When do we want to launch it? 5. Where: in which countries? Or regions? 6. Which (financial) criteria the new offering has to meet? In this way both the board of directors and the innovation team has clear expectations what will be delivered at the end of the innovation expedition.

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2 Choose the methods

Depending on your goal, time, and resources, you can choose different methods and tools to facilitate the design thinking process. The process usually consists of five phases: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. For each phase, you can use various methods such as interviews, personas, journey maps, brainstorming, sketching, storyboarding, prototyping, and feedback sessions. You can also mix and match methods from different phases or use frameworks such as the double diamond or the sprint. The key is to choose methods that suit your context and enable your team to generate and validate ideas quickly and effectively.

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Here's a list of 15 DESIGN THINKING TOOLS: 1. Empathy Mapping: Understand users' needs, thoughts, and feelings. 2. User Personas: Create fictional representations of target users. 3. Customer Journey Mapping: Visualize the user's experience throughout a process. 4. Brainstorming. 5. Mind Mapping. 6. Rapid Prototyping: Quickly create tangible representations. 7. 5 Whys: Identify the root cause of a problem by asking "why" repeatedly. 8. SCAMPER. 9. Storyboarding: Illustrate. 10. Value Proposition Canvas. 11. SOAR Analysis. 12. Design Critiques: Provide constructive feedback. 13. Worst Possible Idea: Explore radical solutions. 14. Role-playing: Act out user scenarios. 15. Six Thinking Hats: Use different perspectives to solve problems.

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3 Prepare the materials

Once you have chosen the methods, you need to prepare the materials and resources for the workshop. This includes the agenda, the facilitator guide, the participants list, the online or physical space, the equipment, the supplies, and the documentation. Make sure you have everything you need to run the workshop smoothly and efficiently. For example, you might need sticky notes, markers, paper, scissors, glue, cardboard, digital tools, cameras, audio recorders, etc. You also need to communicate the workshop details and expectations to your team and stakeholders in advance.

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4 Engage the participants

As a facilitator during the workshop, your role is to engage the participants and guide them through the design thinking process. You should create a safe and supportive environment in which everyone can share their insights, opinions, and ideas. Additionally, you need to manage the time, energy, and dynamics of the group. To do this, you can start with an icebreaker or warm-up activity to break the ice and build rapport. Open-ended questions and prompts can be used to stimulate discussion and reflection, while visual aids and templates can be used to organize and present information and ideas. Constructive feedback and appreciation should be provided to participants, as well as inviting them to do the same. Games and challenges are also great for injecting fun and creativity into the workshop.

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Gijsbertus J.J. van Wulfen

Innovation keynote speaker, Number One Thought Leader Design Thinking 2024, LinkedIn Top Voice helping you and your organisation, to become amazing innovators with keynotes, workshops, and a proven innovation method.
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I love to share a CHECKLIST: 20 Tips for a perfect brainstorm: 1. Define a relevant challenge. 2. Create with the sponsor an assignment 3. Create momentum 4. Invite people for whom it is relevant. 5. Invite people for content as well as decision-making 6. Include outsiders 7. An mix of participants 8. Invite the senior problem-owner 9. A special venue 10. An safe environment 11. Never at the office 12. Spend twice as much time on the convergence - as on the divergence process. 13. Combine idea-generating techniques 14. Be open to suggestions 15. Make sure it is enjoyable 16. Time box 17. Keep up the pace 18. Appoint an expert facilitator 19. Make the output concrete 20. Creating together to generate buy-in

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5 Follow up the workshop

After the workshop, you need to follow up with your team and stakeholders to share the results and next steps. You need to document and summarize the workshop activities, outcomes, and learnings. You also need to evaluate the workshop effectiveness and identify areas for improvement. You can use surveys, interviews, or feedback forms to collect feedback from the participants and stakeholders. You can also create a report or a presentation that showcases the problem, the solution, and the impact of the workshop. Finally, you need to plan and execute the actions that will move your project forward.

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Without follow-up and reflection, you risk creating nothing more than 'design thinking theatre'. No experienced Facilitator wants to create a workshop that everyone enjoys, that doesn't then get participants closer to the desired outcomes. An on-going check in and assigned accountability for agreed actions is vital to ensure the overall success of a workshop.

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6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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Gijsbertus J.J. van Wulfen

Innovation keynote speaker, Number One Thought Leader Design Thinking 2024, LinkedIn Top Voice helping you and your organisation, to become amazing innovators with keynotes, workshops, and a proven innovation method.
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MIX DESIGN THINKING WITH BUSINESS REALITY! Mixing CPS with Design Thinking and TRIZ is good. It will lead to creative ideas, but that doesn’t count. TRANSFORMING IDEAS IN REALITY; that’s what makes the real difference. That’s why we mix design thinking with business reality in the proven best-practice FORTH innovation methodology. We start earlier in the NPD process than cps or design thinking with transforming strategy into a concrete innovation assignment. And we finish later in the NPD process by not delivering ideas or designs, but complete business cases. Winning management buy-in for your innovative new concepts is essential. That’s why using the FORTH method doubles your innovation effectiveness ?????.

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Brian Martin

Marketing Consultant of the Year (North West) 2024 | Marketing Manager: Value Match | Trustee: M2 SPED Awareness | Student: Keele - MSc Management with Marketing | MCIM
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Inclusivity is paramount! Workshops, especially workshops aiming for innovation, should take into account different cultures, genders and ability perspectives. This isn't just about representation but the tools and methods used. Icebreakers might not work across all cultures, or prototyping materials may not be accessible to everyone. Always update your toolkit and be sensitive to these nuances can elevate workshop experiences for everyone involved.

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