DA 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
Briefing designers effectively to get great results
Supporting your team with sensitivity. How do adapt your style to theirs to get the best from them
Tackling potential sticking points and overcoming problems
How to give constructive feedback to allow the design process and project to keep moving forward. The best managers set individualised expectations and give individualised feedback
Discover how to align your leadership approach with your team’s needs and aspirations, ensuring that you not only get the results you desire but also nurture a culture of growth and creativity

Join us on this transformation and get ready to unleash the true potential of your design leadership skill set.

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 will you get?

Practice of the coaching techniques and tools in a workshop environment to then take back directly to your day to day role. This is not conceptual or theory, but practical application The three coaching conversations and the questions to ask your team

Comprehensive reference notes built from 10 years of coaching leaders, of the tips and tricks to move from Manager to Mentor

A profile tool to help understand yours and your team’s learning, appreciation and communication styles to give you guides on how to adapt your coaching approach to the needs of your team

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 $450+gst
DA Friend $350+gst (with access code)

Meet your facilitator: Nigel King | Kotuku High Performance Coaching

COACH | LEADER | STRATEGIST | BRAND BUILDER | GROWTH IGNITER
Nigel is a business coach with over 20 years of expertise in building high-performance teams, business strategy, leadership, marketing and sales.
Gallup Certified CliftonStrengths Coach with 10 years working with and coaching internal teams on CliftonStrengths.

I offer an outside-in view of where people, teams and organisations are struggling, help them build a compelling vision to ignite change and provide a toolkit and accountability to help them take consistent action to make a step change to achieve their business and personal goals.

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