The Design Gym’s Collaborative Design Activities for Remote Teams
BY: Erin Lamberty + Kelsye Gould Throughout the years, we’ve seen design thinking evolve in many ways. Having moved beyond product teams, design thinking is also showing up in marketing teams striving...
View ArticleHow to Facilitate Remote Brainstorms that Don’t Suck
BY: Erin Lamberty + Kelsye Gould While we at The Design Gym tend to be biased towards in-person experiences, the growing reality is that the teams we work with (and even our own team!), don’t always...
View ArticleFacilitator Tips for Unexpected Uncomfortable Conversations
I often get text messages from friends who are excited to share that they are planning to run their first workshop-style meeting with their team—a strategy session, a mini-offsite, a retro or an...
View ArticleChange is Uncomfortable: How Carlyle Brown Invites Conversation on Race
“Comfort is the enemy of progress.” – P.T. Barnum When our quarterly theme of uncomfortable conversations was announced, I knew I wanted to talk to Carlyle Brown, a playwright and performer whose work...
View ArticleNegotiating Common Ground
Earlier this year, The Design Gym teamed up with TED and a few of their partners to design and deliver three discovery sessions at TED Summit 2019. We conducted a live social experiment on lifelong...
View ArticleLeaning into the Tough Stuff: How Uncomfortable Conversations Show Up in Our...
A few years ago a small innovation group came to us with a problem. They were part of a large, complex healthcare company and were having trouble getting stakeholders within the larger organization to...
View ArticleA Leader’s Duty: Making The Uncomfortable Comfortable
Hi. I’m Andy. I’m the CEO of The Design Gym. And I have functional depression. I show up at work. I kick ass. I support amazing work for our even more amazing clients. I lead a team of 20+ truly...
View ArticleThe Rise of People First Innovation in 2020
Reflections & Insights from our CEO, Andy Hagerman Everyone is nodding in agreement that innovation is important — turns out executive satisfaction with innovation outcomes is a resounding ‘meh.’...
View ArticleReducing Remote Collaboration Friction
Collaboration can be challenging in the best of circumstances, let alone when your team is remote. Based on our learnings over the years, we’ve compiled a list of best practices, tips, and tricks for...
View ArticleRemote working is not a digital problem. It’s a human one.
For many teams, the rise of the requirements for dispersed, remote working have been organizationally challenging, to say the least. Maintaining project momentum, employee engagement, and a sense of...
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