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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