Welcome to "Week 3 – Creative Power of Teams" of our online learning course "From Brockhaus Thinking: With Design Thinking to a Networked Culture".
After having addressed the importance of place-making for Design Thinking as a mindset, this week will be dedicated to a deep dive into the second key important dimension that we use to define Design Thinking from a conceptual standpoint as a reflective practitioner: place * people * process.
Within this module we want to empathize team’s qualities – without neglecting, but rather building on individual creativity for innovative work: Creative Power of Teams.
The main topics of this module are to:
- highlight the importance of composing cross-functional, diverse teams for design and business innovation
- understand team building and team dynamics as an ongoing activity throughout design thinking and innovation projects
- empathize the meaning of team communication and principles of teamwork in high-performance design and innovation teams
- frame the concept of team management as an organizational principle of “teams of teams”.
During this week we would like to provide you with some short activities and some further “food for thought” – also meant as an invitation to share your team experiences (either as a team member, team lead and/or team coach) in Design Thinking with us, the community, in the respective discussion forums.
Looking forward to an inspiring week with individuals, teams and teams of teams!