2020 was a year that we didn’t see coming. Our vision was blindsided, our foresight clouded .
While there are many, many lessons to be learned from this year of 2020, it’s that the days are over for having the world slow down enough to allow a carefully engineered cruise to well-defined outcomes.
Even though it was decades ago, I’ll never forget the day I went to a client’s office for a 1 hour coaching session. He was a financial consultant who was highly experienced, yet still early in his tenure with a new firm.
Have you had a sense that your talent development programs could have a richer impact, but didn't know what to do? Or, have you ever wanted to light a fire under your talent development programs without burning up your budget?
Have you ever struggled to present a compelling story about something you've achieved? Or, have you ever felt frustrated while trying to pull your thoughts together for a new proposal?
Have you ever felt pressured to "think outside the box" - to come up with big, breakthrough ideas? Or, have you ever felt frustrated when you wanted others to think beyond the normal ideas they typically have?
“Design thinking” has swept the world. While there have been many methods for finding innovative yet practical solutions to business and social challenges – such as the “Creative Problem Solving” process of Osborn and Parnes – somehow “design thinking” has caught the world’s fancy like no other.