Organizational
Inspire
Gain tools to solve complex challenges and drive positive change.
Course Overview
The Inspire Organization course is a unique opportunity to tackle a problem as a team and learn how to identify and solve complex challenges through a hands-on, human-centered approach. Whether your team is a non-profit in the community, or a group of aspiring changemakers this course will equip your group with the skills and tools to create real impact in your community and beyond and provide the guidance to see the results of your efforts. With 5 hours of expert advising included, this is the perfect opportunity to gather your team together and develop a solution to a complex problem.
Enroll your team in Organizational Inspire to develop essential skills, toolsets, and mindsets for innovative problem-solving and social impact. Sign up today to transform your team’s approach to design and help make a meaningful difference in your community!
Course Format
Organizational Inspire is offered as a distance learning course with 5 hours of expert advising to help facilitate your team’s success.
Key Takeaways:
- Skill Development: Practice new skills to improve your group’s problem solving and design skills.
- Try out new mindsets: Understand and apply new ways of thinking to help your team see challenges with fresh perspective.
- Apply Your Learnings: Apply your learnings to a challenge in your work or community in real time with your team and develop a solution together.
- Print it Out: Download the Inspire textbook to follow along, take with you, or write in as you go.
- Celebrate Your Success: Each team member will receive a certificate that acknowledges their new skills and learning.
What You'll Gain
- Add to your team’s problem solving collective abilities and cross collaborate across the workplace.
- Unlock the creative potential of your group and drive innovation within your team.
- Excel in collaborative environments and make a positive change in your organization.
- Build stronger relationships with colleagues and clients.
- Demonstrate your organization’s initiative and ability to create meaningful impact.
Module 1:
- Develop Empathy: Understand the needs and perspectives of the people or groups you are working with.
- Understand Systems: Discover how to map systems, dig to the root of complex problems, and identify key opportunities for change.
- Become an Expert at Interviews: Explore best practices for hosting a safe and successful interview to understand the lived experience of the people facing a particular challenge.
- Practice Synthesis: Learn how to theme and draw insights from complex data to guide your solutioning.
- Reframe Ideas: Create compelling “How Might We” questions and point of view statements to guide your solutioning.
- Tell Your Story: Flex your creative muscles by learning how to effectively tell the story of your journey.
- Launch into Effective Problem-Solving: Identify the right challenge for you, your team, or your community to address, ensuring that the solutions you generate are useful and sustainable.
Module 2:
- Ideate: Learn engaging ideation techniques to generate new and novel solutions while avoiding groupthink.
- Select the Right Solution: Explore compelling ways to identify the best ideas and work as a group to select which one(s) to make into reality.
- Prototype: Practice creating visual or physical representations of your idea and developing thorough test plans to gather feedback from your users.
- Test: Understand how to test effectively and gather meaningful feedback about your product, service, or plan.
- Assess: Use the three lenses of design to assess the desirability, feasibility, and viability of your design(s).
- Iterate: Apply your learnings and new insight by improving upon your design and incorporating feedback to make it just right.
- Launch Your Ideas: Use tools like the Business Model Canvas to efficiently scope and scale your project.
Testimonials
Whether you’re a recent graduate or a seasoned professional, the Inspire course offers valuable insights and skills for everyone.
"I found this to be a very validating exercise (going through the entire course). Coming in, I wondered if I would learn anything new and while most of what was covered were skills and/or knowledge that I already had or was aware of, it was a nice feeling and gave me a good sense of confidence to see that how we’re practicing Human Centered Design is aligned with the [Inspire] course content."
"I am surprised by the areas that I found uncomfortable and how much more I needed to sit in this discomfort to feel confident in trying new things. It [Inspire] has reframed my approach to work that doesn’t feel as ‘tangible’ or like the finish line is clear, now I am more confident in my ability to determine the direction and develop something of value."
“I have a better sense of what human centered design is. It doesn’t feel like a consulting gimmick, and I feel like I’ve actually learned something practical. I think I feel better at the concept of brainstorming and facilitating group discussions to prevent groupthink.”
“I felt more things click together. I feel like I was able to draw connections between things I have learned previously and real-life issues I am dealing with at work. I feel more confident in my toolbox and the double diamond is a great resource to help evaluate problems and develop solutions.”
"I was amazed to learn about all the new collaborative tools to help in finding solutions and refining a path for a business plan."
"I think it [Inspire] highlights that there are some areas for improvement that I didn’t see previously, I am confident I will learn more with practice and find good use of these tools."
"I feel confident knowing that there is a step and process to design. I can now follow these simple principles to get to the prototyping stage."
“[I am] feeling more confident about the theory of design thinking/systems thinking, how to apply empathy to problem solving, etc.”
“This course really helped me understand human centred design and the process from identification of a problem to brainstorming solutions and prototyping. Fascinating!”
“You have this problem and is it really a problem? Actually digging into it and not just sitting in a room and coming up with all of these ideas, [Inspire] helped structure information and build curiosity.”
“This was a real mindset shift for me.”
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