About this program

Use the power of Design Thinking for leadership and coaching.

As a powerful innovation tool, Design Thinking has helped create some of the world’s most successful products, services, and businesses. After years of research and testing, we found a way to use Design Thinking for leadership, talent development, and coaching. We have condensed it into a new framework: Designing Talent. We developed this program to certify leaders, HR-professionals, coaches, mentors, teachers, and consultants to enable them to work with our approach. You will have even more impact, excel in your career, and add immense value to your work.

Get ready for an invaluable Learning Journey

In this program, we take our participants on a personal learning journey over four months, giving them time to reflect, get maximum practical experience, and develop a deep understanding of a state-of-the-art Design Thinking based leadership and coaching framework.
Two participants of the Munich 2018 batch.

Audience

• Leaders and entrepreneurs who want to hone their learning and leadership skills, use new coaching tools and assessments for daily challenges and team issues, or want to rethink their current talent development strategy
• HR professionals who want to establish a high-growth problem-solving and performance culture
• Coaches, consultants, teachers, and mentors who want to add a new and highly effective talent development framework to their existing approaches and help their clients, mentees, or students become the best they can be.

Your benefits

  • Acquire the most important skill in the 21st century: learning and helping others learn

  • Apply the latest science in learning to your one-on-one talent development or coaching sessions

  • Get acquainted with ACE: a simple, yet profound process for learning and problem-solving

  • Learn how to use visual tools, brainstorming templates, and team exercises to jumpstart engagement

  • Gain new insights on topics such as nurturing a learner´s mindset, motivation, and preferences

  • Create value and fun

  • Expand your network and accelerate your career

“Very effective as a team“

"My co-founder and I were fortunate to take part in this program together. For us, it was beneficial to become even more effective as a team. One things stands out: the ACE Process. It has become a powerful standard process to solve complex challenges, both big and small. Whether it is a challenge which we are facing internally or a problem we want to solve with our customers, it is always a great tool. From an operational or strategic point of view, this is one of the most valuable takeaways."

Tushaar Bhatt, Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Convaise
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"Thinking outside the box"

"The program is not only about being a certified Designing Talent Coach or Talent Developer afterwards, it's so much more: You get many great tools and insights into ways of communicating and different types of personalities. These experiences have a great impact on our day-to-day work and life! For example, to help our ”talent” (direct report, colleague, or team) develop, we need to be open, ask questions, and listen carefully to come to a joint understanding of their challenge. Thinking outside the box and allowing crazy ideas can lead to new thoughts and is great fun!"

Susanne Hofer and Eva Findelsberger, HR Experts, Roland Berger
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Format

• 8 modules over the course of four months, consisting of short lectures, team exercises, breakout groups, fish-bowl coachings, i.e. two 2.5-hour sessions per month
• Exercises and application in learning teams between sessions
• Assessments to hone coaching and leadership skills and use our strengths to our fullest potential
• Ongoing application
• Feedback and peer supervision
• Access to a custom learning platform with reading recommendations, tools, exercises
• Coaching supervision

“Getting my team to buy in“

Geetanjali Moorjani, Global Human Resources Leader at Rangam Consultants Inc.

"The Program made a huge impact on my life and my career, especially when the Covid crisis came about. We had to get all of our employees and offices working offsite – but remote was not something that we had been doing. I immediately went to the Designing Talent tools, I knew they would help with the structuring and prioritization of the many challenges and changes we were facing every day. Getting my people to buy in and giving them the options to really analyze what they're dealing with worked. We managed to move cohesively towards that same common goal without any disconnect."
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Dates

April-July 2022
Session 1: Tuesday, April 26, 2022
September-December 2022
Session 1: Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022
You will get all the dates and links (Zoom) prior to the program.

Fees

The regular fee for the Designing Talent Certification Program is
EUR 4300 (plus VAT)/ USD 4900 (Scholarships available.)

For further questions, to apply, or to inquire about scholarships, please contact
Verena Lauffs, verena.lauffs@autoris.com
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FAQ

  • Who exactly is this program for?

    This program is for

    a) executives who want to hone their learning and leadership skills, use new coaching tools and assessments for daily challenges and team issues, or want to rethink their current talent development strategy,

    b) HR professionals who want to establish a high-growth problem-solving and performance culture,

    c) coaches, consultants, teachers, and mentors who want to add a new and highly effective talent development framework to their existing approaches and help their clients, mentees, or students become the best they can be.

  • Are any assessments included?

    To learn and work with the Designing Talent approach, you are invited to take the "You at Your Best" Assessment. This will help you identify your key learning strengths and your learning opportunities.

  • What organizations work with the Designing Talent Framework?

    The Designing Talent Framework is applied in global corporations, high-growth companies, start-ups, accelerators, leading business schools, schools, and family businesses.

  • What is the ACE Process?

    Especially in fast-changing times like these, we often don't know how to approach and find answers to individual, team, or company challenges. What's needed is a simple, yet reliable process for finding the best solution in any context. That is why we created ACE. ACE is a Design Thinking-based process with three phases:
    1. Address and Assess
    2. Create and Choose
    3. Execute and Evaluate.
    It is the key to effective problem-solving, performance improvement, and learning. We will be "ACE-ing" all kinds of challenges throughout the program. You will love working with it!

  • How will I get certified?

    In the last module, Module 8, you will take a short test (which we will prepare you for) and give a short "final presentation" with your learning team. You will then get your Certificate of Completion and your "Letter of Achievement".

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