From project kick-offs to postmortems, great meetings are filled with empathy, trust, and cross-disciplinary collaboration that leads to better ideas–ones that encourage exploration and risk, but ultimately hone in on the smartest stuff. To make this happen, proper facilitation, visual thinking, and real-time capture are all critical in order to bring harmony to the natural tangents that happen in our brains during meetings.

Tactics like these help teams and clients better understand the problems they’re trying to solve and enable them to act. These skills are fundamental building blocks of a good design process, and as a result, bring design thinking into the traditional meeting.

Workshop topics include:

• Meetings & Cognitive Processes
• Facilitation Basics
• Role Structures for Meetings
• Decision-making Patterns that Work
• Critique Basics
• Better Presentations
• Specific Meeting Exercises Around Product Development & Ideation