Registration | AgendaDesign thinking is far more than program design with sticky notes. It is a technology for leadership and organizational change. Come explore design thinking as a leadership methodology to promote creativity, analytical reasoning and collaboration across organizational boundaries.
Design Thinking for Library Leadership is about learning by doing. You identify an adaptive leadership challenge (you or other libraries face), form a team, and tackle your challenge by establishing a framework for leading change by design. Hands-on, team learning will give you the opportunity to adapt design thinking tools and collaborate with colleagues.
Design Thinking for Library Leadership is offered in partnership with …
Day 1
1:00 – Welcome + Team formation
Jump right into leadership. Identify an adaptive leadership challenge that’s been nagging at you, and find a team to work on your challenge.
2:00 – Houston, we’ve got a problem.
Apply design thinking strategies to define adaptive challenges and regenerative solutions.
4:30 – Happy Hour!
Day 2
8:30 – Coffee conversations! [OPTIONAL]
Light breakfast and connections to get you started.
9:00 – Are you listening?
Harness the power of empathy to span boundaries and lead collaboration in the network economy.
11:00 – The elephant in the room…
Leverage creative structures and the power of empirical creativity to move the beast.
12:15 – Lunch
Fun. Delicious. Surprising.
1:15 – Slow and steady wins the race.
Plan for pit stops, storytelling, and success.
3:15 – Share out & Gallery Walk
4:00 – Happy Trails!
4:00 – Share what you’ve got! Happy Hour
Gallery walk, mingle, and network.
LeadLocal’s toolkit of “DO” exercises, were basically fun, but grounded, activities that help us actually tackle problems big and small by coming together and focusing on what needs to be done — then doing it. I felt that the LeadLocal activities were so accessible — so easy and intuitive — that they could be used at MSL (and beyond) as a model for how we process and tackle things that need to get done (again both big and small).
Maine State Librarian, State of Maine
