Design Thinking the Employee Experience
Redesign Your Employee Experience for Maximum Engagement & Retention
In this workshop, we’ll provide you with the key foundations in design thinking to better solve problems and seize opportunities to create the optimal employee experience.
Date
January 17-18, 2023
Time
10am - 2pm CT​
Location
Live Online
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What to expect
WHAT TO EXPECT
In this foundational workshop, we'll rapidly lead you through all stages of the Design Thinking process, teaching how the various steps fit together and why and how they work. You’ll get to apply these stages to a real design challenge in your employee experience work.
There will be minimal lecture, so if you are expecting to turn on and multi-task, this workshop is not for you. Instead, we’ll be diving in and practicing Design Thinking to build muscle memory and confidence. You’ll also have plenty of opportunities to connect and work with your peers, as we believe this is the best way to learn.
What You'll Learn
We'll lead you through all five stages of the Design Thinking process, teaching how the various steps fit together and why and how they work. You’ll learn tips and tricks for using Design Thinking to tackle a real employee experience challenge and opportunity.
How You'll Learn
This workshop is hands-on. We’ll introduce you to each of the various stages of the Design Thinking process, and then you'll have an opportunity to immediately apply them to your work. We’ll introduce exercises that will not only help you try out these different stages with a real employee experience challenge but also allow you to bring Design Thinking back to your team.
Agenda
Deep Work Session 1
Empathize and Define Your Employee Experience
Deep Work Session 2
Ideate Potential Employee Experience Solutions
Deep Work Session 3
Prototype Elements of an Optimal Employee Experience
Deep Work Session 4
Plan for Testing and Implementation of an Optimal Employee Experience
Who Should Attend
Chiefs of Staff
who want to optimize work across teams.
L&D Leaders
who want to redesign the employee experience.
Executives
who seek more alignment, trust, and productivity.
HR Professionals
looking to recruit and retain the best employees.
Key Takeaways
Recognize key design thinking principles
Empathize and Define Your Employee Experience
Ideate & Prototype Potential Employee Experience Solutions
Plan for Testing and Implementation of an Optimal Employee Experience
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Erik Skogsberg
​Trained as an educator, designer, researcher, and change agent, he brings significant teaching, design, mentoring, professional learning and development, organizational change, and research experiences from across secondary, higher education, non-profit, and industry contexts. Whether working with individuals, teams, or organizations, he helps people design lasting growth and innovation. Prior to working with Voltage Control, he co-founded Michigan State University’s Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology, an internal design consultancy focused on learning experience design, innovation, and organizational transformation.
He earned his B.A. in English Literature from Western Washington University, M.A.T. in Secondary English Education from Brown University, and Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education.
What People Are Saying
"I realized my entire role is facilitation. I have to do a lot of lateral influencing. So I use these skills even if it is not a super-structured workshop. Our product team has micro meetings all the time, and these methods help us get the most of those moments. My team can lean on me to facilitate. You will redesign the way you have conversations. I can’t believe every college student doesn’t have to take a class like this. This is how you collaborate. It is the underpinning of the future of work."
Savannah C.
PRODUCT DESIGNER @ TAILWIND
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