DESIGN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Designing Alliances
Build better relationships
Being an excellent creative isn’t enough to guarantee impact. Shifting your mindset from reactive problem-solving to proactive relationship-building is critical to success. However, it starts with knowing yourself and clarifying your needs in a relationship. Learn to collaboratively build effective alliances up, down, and across the organization.
What you’ll learn
Reflections for identifying your own needs in healthy collaboration
Questions and tools for facilitating a partnership conversation with a new teammate
Tools for creating more visibility around your work for optimal alignment
Tips and techniques for managing across and up
Who it’s for
Any creative who wants to build stronger cross-functional partnerships. All industries and backgrounds welcome.
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