Design Thinking for
Teams & Entrepreneurs
You are in the business of solving problems for your clients. Design thinking is a creative problem-solving process that enables you to find solutions faster, creatively, and confidently.
In this skills-based workshop, you will learn through a hands-on jewelry-making project how to:
• Solve problems better with critical thinking
• Fail faster through a prototyping process
• Make confident business decisions
• Promote constructive communication with clients and colleagues
The workshop is structured into two virtual sessions held on consecutive weeks. Materials and tools are included and will be mailed to you in advance.
Why craft?
We all started out as young creators — building, drawing, coloring, and crafting. But by adulthood, most of us have lost that creative confidence. That is the same confidence you need to solve problems for your clients. Why not go back to the beginning and reacquaint with our creative nature by making objects by hand?
What does confidence have to do with problem-solving?
As women, we have been conditioned to pursue perfectionism, a losing game, rather than learning through exploration. In our sessions, we will discuss how the process of learning new skills and approaches can be uncomfortable. You will learn how to get past those barriers, trust yourself and build your confidence in an encouraging and positive environment.
Who benefits from this?
Professional teams and individuals of all kinds seeking to develop critical thinking skills and a more inclusive creative work environment stand to gain a lot from this workshop. Often, design thinking programs are focused on teamwork, but the same process can be invaluable for a team of one.
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Who Is the Facilitator?
Alyson Toone facilitates the design thinking activations. With more than ten years in the apparel retail industry designing products, she experienced the downfall of not including design thinking in the process of product creation. The current state of retail is the result of years of stale products created by sticking closely to “tried and true.” Instead of focusing on innovation, organizations seemed mired in past data for new answers. Seeing talented designers being underutilized due to incompatible communication inspired her to teach others to be design thinkers. Her design thinking education began at Columbus College of Art of Design where she earned her BFA in 2007.