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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...

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How 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...

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Facilitator 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...

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Change 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...

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Negotiating 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...

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Leaning 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...

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A 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...

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The 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.’...

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Reducing 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...

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Remote 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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