Design Assembly WORKSHOP TĀMAKI MAKAURAU

Elevating Design Leadership: From Maker to Mentor

Do you manage people or lead a team in your role?
Design Assembly presents a workshop to support you to navigate the challenges and opportunities you face leading people in your work. We all can remember the best and the worst boss we ever had. If your job is only as good as your boss, how do we give our leaders the right skills to support their people well?

In a profession that thrives on innovation, collaboration, and pushing the boundaries of creativity, your role goes beyond just being a manager of people. It’s about becoming a coach, a mentor, and a catalyst for growth. If people grow, studios and the work grows. The ability to lead, inspire, and guide your people can make all the difference.

In this workshop, we will focus on practical strategies to help you transition from being a manager to a mentor and coach by giving you essential skills such as;

Setting Clear Expectations: Establish clear and actionable expectations for your team.
Mastering Key Coaching Conversations: Discover three key coaching conversations to drive alignment and performance.
Having Productive Coaching Conversations: Learn a model for conducting productive coaching conversations and transform from a boss to a coach.
Practical Strategies to Drive Engagement: Only 22% of staff are engaged in NZ, learn how to make your team hum.
Adjusting Leadership and Communication: Adapt your leadership and communication style to meet your team members’ needs, enhancing results and creativity.
Enhancing Team Initiative and Responsibility: Learn strategies to lift your team’s initiative, freeing you up to work on your business rather than in it.

Who is the workshop for?
Anyone who has a direct report.
Creative leads, senior designers, design directors, creative directors, studio managers, account managers and studio owners

What You Will Get

A Coaching Framework and Toolkit: Receive an easy-to-use coaching framework, conversation guide, and toolkit to enhance your management and coaching capabilities.
Practical Application: Gain hands-on experience with coaching techniques and tools in a workshop setting, ready to apply with your team. This is not just theory; it's the practical application of tools used in organizations worldwide.
Comprehensive Notes and Tips: Take away detailed notes and actionable tips developed from 20+ years of leadership and coaching experience.

Previous workshops' feedback from the DA community:

"I found the example coaching questions included very helpful and will try to incorporate them in to my catch-ups with my team. I would be keen on my team also doing the questionnaire for themselves as I found there were helpful insights in my report and was surprised by some of them." - Mary Adams, Pōneke workshop attendee

"Smaller group, workshopping with different partners, the facilitator kept it very work-related. It was very encouraging and motivating." - Camilla Lau, Pōneke workshop attendee

Cost of Workshop
Professional | Non-member $350+gst
DA Friend $250+gst (with access code)

Meet your facilitator: Nigel King Kotuku High-Performance Coaching

Human Growth Igniter & Business Coach.

Nigel helps business owners and leaders get out of the weeds, reignite their passion for their profession, and build their capability to drive growth. With over 20 years of expertise in building high-performance teams, leadership development, sales and marketing, and business strategy, he brings a wealth of real-world knowledge and experience to his coaching.

As a Human Growth Igniter and business coach, Nigel leverages his extensive background in senior leadership roles locally and globally with companies such as Fonterra, KraftHeinz, Ziwi, Lion, and Comvita. A Gallup Certified CliftonStrengths coach, he is passionate about helping owners and management teams get unstuck, become better leaders, and build more engaged and productive teams. He has coached businesses and individuals across various industries, including design & advertising, FMCG, manufacturing & sales, law, and process engineering.

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