Design Thinking and Innovation
Do you want build design thinking and innovative skills? This is the perfect course for leaders looking to develop their leadership abilities.
Who will benefit from this course?
You will find this course useful if you are responsible for innovation in your institution. This course will also find it of value if you need to bring design thinking in your work.
What will you learn through this course?
This course on design thinking and innovation is built from the perspective of helping you focus on what is required of you to make it happen. You will learn the personal resources you need (characteristics or traits, we refer to them as leadership orientations) to enable you to think design and be comfortable to lead innovation.
Approach to the Course
Innovation and design thinking inherently needs you to break away from the past and the present. It requires you to work with ambiguity, uncertainty and complexity and think future. All this requires the exercise of leadership to challenge the status quo and willingness to break out. Thus, this course starts with exploring leadership itself and the ask it has of you.
Your ability to think design and lead innovation will depend on certain personal resources you possess or need to develop and your ability to apply them through the journey. We refer to these resources as Leadership Orientations. Orientations are characteristics or traits.
This course will help you gain awareness and reflect on your leadership orientations that specifically impact your ability to design and innovate. You will have an opportunity to gain self-awareness and insights on those leadership orientations. You will expose yourself to the leadership abilities you need to build to think through design and lead innovation. Leadership abilities are the combined application of the leadership orientations learnt. Practising these leadership orientations and leadership abilities will help you build skills to be effective in this area.
This theme will fundamentally draw from your ability to think, manage a multiplicity of perspectives, learn beyond what is known to you and sense opportunities to harness value. You will learn the leadership orientations of thinking, perspectives, learning in this course. You will also explore what drives spotting opportunities and thinking through design applying the orientations learnt.
This course will conclude offering experience of leaders engaging with innovation and driving design thinking in institutions.
How is the learning structured?
This course is designed to help you uncover the dimensions mentioned above by breaking it down to learning units that are bite size and easy to consume. It is structured to help you understand the content, learn its application and reflect on your behaviour relating to it. It offers a structure to skills practice to continue beyond the course as well.
The content is structured for you to absorb, internalise, reflect, be self-aware and practice building skill in that unit of content before proceeding to the next. We recommend you learn by spending time observing, reflecting and drawing deeper insights from your environment and watching others relating to the content as well. As you progress reflect and identify the areas you want to develop and practice skills beyond the course.
Deep involvement in each unit of content before moving to the next will heighten your learning experience of the program.
Learning components
Course content (Total 7 Sections)
Section 1 (A New Lens to Leadership)
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1.Webcast Time : 22 min
A new lens on Leadership - Part 1
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
Leadership - what does it really mean? Due to lack of a clear understanding of Leadership and an exalted meaning attached to it by everyone, people think it is beyond them. At Leadership Centre, we believe Leadership is a journey, a process. Leadership is about taking charge in a context and be accountable to the outcome. This podcast will help you clear the myths around leadership. It introduces you to when is that we exercise leadership. It also brings out the different contexts when we creat
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2.Webcast Time : 26 min
A new lens on Leadership - Part 2
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
In the second part of our introductory podcast on leadership, let us learn how you can develop your leadership abilities. Developing leadership abilities are not about working with your style and skill. Leadership abilities are underpinned by your leadership orientations. An orientation is what is characteristic of you and shapes your responses to a context. Look at leadership from the lens of leadership orientations and the need to work on it to build your leadership abilities
Section 2 (Human Thinking Process)
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Profiler
Time : 10 min
This profiler contains multiple sets of statements.Each set has 3 statements. You have 5 points to allocate amongst the 3 statements, in each set. Allocate the maximum points to the statement which best describes you/your colleague, followed by the next and followed by the one which describes the least.
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2.Webcast Time : 31 min
Human Thinking Process
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
In this webcast by Mr. K Ramkumar focuses on the theme of thinking. Watch him share insights based on his experience to help you build your leadership ability.
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3.Supplementary Learning Resource Time : 3 min
Concepts on Thinking
How would this benefit?
Practice exercises to help you gain focussed outcomes
This document contains a highlight of the points of discussion from the thinking session
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4.Webcast Time : 59 min
How to read your Profiler Report
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
This webcast guides you and helps you gain clarity to read your Profiler report.
Section 3 (Perspective)
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1.Webcast Time : 23 min
Leadership Orientation - Perspectives
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
Can miracles happen? In this podcast we explore how perspectives, while exercising leadership along with trust and power, can create magic.
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2.Supplementary Learning Resource Time : 2 min
Concepts on Perspectives
How would this benefit?
Practice exercises to help you gain focussed outcomes
Read this summary to understand a highlight on the topic of managing diverse perspectives.
Section 4 (An Orientation to Learn)
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1.Webcast Time : 26 min
Leadership Orientation - Learning
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
What does learning mean to you as you grow up the corporate ladder? What is the impact for manager of managers? How can I help my team learn and grow? Watch Mrs. Aparna Nair, Practice Head, Leadership Development at Leadership Centre share her insights.
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2.Supplementary Learning Resource Time : 12 min
Concepts on Learning
How would this benefit?
Practice exercises to help you gain focussed outcomes
Read this summary to get a highlight on the topic of learning orientation.
Section 5 (Sensing Opportunities and Making Decisions)
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1.Webcast Time : 21 min
Opportunity sensing and Decision making
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
This webcast is for young leaders who want to build on their judgement capabilities. Through this webcast you would get clarity on challenges and process to sense market opportunities and make decisions on the basis of that.
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2.Supplementary Learning Resource Time : 1 min
Concepts on Opportunity Sensing and Decision making
How would this benefit?
Practice exercises to help you gain focussed outcomes
Read this document for a highlight on the topic of opportunity sensing and decision making.
Section 6 (A Structured Approach to Design Thinking)
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1.Webcast Time : 1 hr 12 min
Develop design thinking
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
This webcast is discussion between Mr. K Ramkumar and Mr. Muralidharan covering the elements that go into design thinking. Watch this webcast to gain the know how to work towards building your design thinking ability.
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2.Supplementary Learning Resource Time : 4 min
Concept Note on Principles of Design
How would this benefit?
Practice exercises to help you gain focussed outcomes
Section 7 (In Practice)
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1.Webcast Time : 24 min
In Conversation with Mr. K. V. Kamath, Part 2 - Driving Innovation
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
Hear Mr. Kamath draw on his considerable experience to share what it takes to set a culture of innovation culture and move the organisation towards a common shared purpose. Also brought alive are his deep insights into changing market dynamics.
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2.Webcast Time : 18 min
In Conversation with Rishikesha Krishnan - Part 1
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
In the first part of our conversation, Mr. Rishikesha Krishnan, Professor of Strategy and Innovation at IIM Bangalore, tells us about the elements that make a culture favourable for innovation in an organization.
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3.Webcast Time : 13 min
In Conversation with Rishikesha Krishnan - Part 2
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
In this part of our conversation, Mr. Rishikesha Krishnan talks about the inception of innovation. He also speaks about the importance of diversity and creativity during the process of innovation.
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4.Webcast Time : 13 min
In Conversation with Rishikesha Krishnan - Part 3
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
In the third part of our conversation with Mr. Rishikesha Krishnan, Professor of Strategy and Innovation at IIM Bangalore, he continues his discussion on innovation. He speaks about how it is essential to collaborate and manage external relationships as well as the capabilities and skills organizations need to look for.
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5.Webcast Time : 20 min
In Conversation with Rishikesha Krishnan - Part 4
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
In the last part of our four part conversation with Mr. Rishikesha Krishnan, he shares with us some prominent leaders who according to him have exemplified leadership in the domain of innovation. He also shares with us some challenges organizations face during the course of innovation
Course Preview & Inclusions
- 6 hr 40 min
- 19 learning Resources
- Self-paced learning
- 1 profiling tools
- 6 hr 8 min of video content
- 5 supplementary learning resources
- Access on Mobile and Laptop
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