I always love challenging myself be it venturing into unknowns and turning them as my career path or be it into learning from anyone and anywhere. “How might I learn from this experience in Life “ .This time it was about: How might I bring senior leaders from diverse sectors under one roof and demystify design thinking by making them feel it and try it with tons of diverse case studies and activities, pushing their thinking to a new level.
This batch was a mix of Senior Leaders, CEOs, researchers, and innovation executives from healthcare, IT, government, food, hospitality, analytics and automobiles.
One of the things we did work on is how do we challenge our own assumptions rather judgements. Judgements very quickly turn into opinions and beliefs which is quite dangerous for leader’s growth and impacts the team and company as well.
Consider thinking about: how many of us would immediately start solving problem as soon as we just get to know a problem statement. We are too eager to start solution, not bothering about analysing if that is really the problem or not. This is where at times start-ups fail since they come up with product too fast, a product that actually may not be needed by the consumer.
“Design Thinking workshop challenges the mind-set for creative solutioning” — Dr Vashima Shubha, Government Relations, Director, PwC India.
During this workshop, it came up that: Siloed Thinking can be broken by high levels of collaboration and collective exploration. This significantly would lead them to discovery of unknown needs. Ubuntu a very famous African story emphasises on “I am because we are”.
“It is so important to realize that it is WE who have caged our thinking processes. Let the birds fly free….. With this Simplistic framework for practicing Design Thinking” — Rahul Bajaj, Vice President, Sutherland Global Services
“Very diversified case studies and challenging activities. Could relate to hospitality domain. Overall a good learning & a great session !” — Ashutosh Bhatt, Executive Manager at Skygourmet Catering Pvt. Ltd.
“Design Thinking workshop covered from wide areas services, social, education to product with emphasis on mind designing” — Sudhanshu Popli, Employee Services Head, Ford
“Very Well designed Design Thinking workshop with focus on learning by doing and good amount of activities with excellent communication and presentation skills.” — Pawan Khurana, CEO QuantM Ltd.
“It was a great experience at your workshop and all stages of Design Thinking were very well covered with lots of use cases” -Dr Piyush Gupta, e-Governance Evangelist
“DT is a very innovative approach to identify the real problem and real case studies shared by Gauri helped us gain powerful insights about the problem” — Seema Dholi, Managing Director, Farm2Kitchen.
“Trainer’s Presentation skills , real case Studies opens your mind to explore Design Thinking deeper and triggers you to apply it in your workplace” — Rajesh V Majji, Co-Founder DataCraftz Labs Pvt. Ltd.
“Design Thinking workshop and coaching will help employees to think like corporate entrepreneur and employees will feel confident and secure in their job”— Dr. V.K. Arora, CEO, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women.
Gauri Mohan 