Design Gym Series

A monthly online workshop for members of the Value Web Learning Community to get stronger—and smarter!— together.

In each session, we focus on a single skill for designing and facilitating collaborative design events.

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  • TVW Design Gym - Better Workshop Deliverables

    TVW Design Gym - Better Workshop Deliverables

    What do we even mean by “deliverable”?

    The best deliverable from a Collaborative Design Workshop is a clear, actionable plan or prototype that captures the team’s collective insights and ideas. This deliverable should be a tangible representation of the workshop’s outcomes, providing a roadmap for implementation and further development. It should be detailed enough to guide future actions but flexible enough to adapt.

  • TVW Design Gym - Client Discovery

    TVW Design Gym - Client Discovery

    Understanding a client organization's history, goals, capacity, hopes, fears, dreams, and power structures can feel challenging. Together, let us unlock the secrets to conducting a successful Client Discovery process and level up your collaborative design engagements. 

  • TVW Design Gym: Sponsor Sessions (Part 1)

    TVW Design Gym: Sponsor Sessions (Part 1)

    Sponsor Design Team is responsible for identifying workshop objectives, givens, scope, etc., and “carrying the water” (aka. deliverable) of the gathering. Curating such design work in complex adaptive systems requires helping leaders engage with the design process. How might we better understand, empathize with, and coordinate different personalities and leadership styles effectively?

  • Using Metaphors

    Using Metaphors

    How many events have used rockets, race cars, mountains, or moonshots as a metaphorical theme? Low-hanging fruit, swim lanes, scalable solutions, offline, bandwidth, ecosystem, bleeding edge, ducks in a row, think outside the box, move the needle, peel the onion, take it to the next level… all common, typical, business metaphors that we have heard.

  • When Things Go Off The Rails
    • 11/24/23

    When Things Go Off The Rails

    If you've ever found yourself in a workshop that has derailed or hit a snag, our virtual workshop on "When Things Go Off the Rails" is your compass back to success. Join us to master the art of getting your design thinking workshops back on track...or at least off a cliff!!

  • TVW Design Gym - Service Design for Social Impact

    TVW Design Gym - Service Design for Social Impact

    This Design Gym workshop aims to expose participants to new frameworks and methodologies that will be helpful when working with external groups, internal groups, or clients. These methodologies help stretch design scenarios into design responses to those scenarios.

  • Designing Personas
    • 5/22/23

    Designing Personas

    During this working session, participants worked with TVW Board Member and Graphic Facilitator Peter Durand on the basic skills and process for working with clients to design “personas.”

  • Scenario Planning

    Scenario Planning

    Scenario planning is a powerful tool that organizations use to anticipate and prepare for the future. By developing a range of plausible scenarios and exploring the potential impact of each one, groups can make better decisions and build more resilient strategies. To create effective scenarios, it's essential to identify the key drivers of change, develop multiple scenarios, and test and refine them to ensure they are robust and comprehensive.

  • TVW Design Gym - Sponsor Sessions (Part 2)

    TVW Design Gym - Sponsor Sessions (Part 2)

    How might we better understand, empathize with, and coordinate different personalities and leadership styles effectively?