STORIES
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The Radical Act of Taking Time Off
In this video, we follow Parker Gates around the Swiss Alps as he talks about the necessity of time away from work in order to be able to do good work.
STOP USING POWERPOINT
From the Conversations on Partnership series, Anna Love talks about the importance of not trying to manage other people’s emotional state. Instead of asking for permission, ask for feedback on the prototype you made! Parker urges everyone to stop using Powerpoint as a means of communicating half-baked ideas. Build something experiential instead!
Admitting You're Wrong
Anna talks about the power of admitting you're wrong. Not only can it heal a relationship, but it sets a cultural tone for an organization to be able to try hard, fail, and recover while learning.
What Is Design Thinking?
In this video, Stoked co-founders Anna Love and Parker Gates explain design thinking by walking through the most common 5-modes and providing real-world scenarios where a popular organization used this mode/method to achieve something big!
Design Thinking in 70 Seconds
Basically a music video that shows design thinking and design culture in action.
Reflecting With Your Team
One of the Try Series, Parker takes a moment to talk about the need for team reflection as a means of taking a look at HOW we worked. Not just what we worked on. This method allows team members to give thoughtful feedback to each other on process as a way of making future working sessions better and better.
Using Design Thinking to Better Serve Schools
This is an interview with Dean Kephart from Serve Minnesota, an organization working with Americorps to service education initiatives in the state. This is the story of how Dean and his team used Human-Centered Design to discover a key need for the children in the school district they were trying to better serve.
Using Design Thinking in Higher Education
This is an interview with Mark Blegen PH.D., Dean of Health Sciences at St. Catherine University. This is the story of Mark implementing Human-Centered Design in his classroom and co-designing the class with his students. Student-centered education in action!
Design and Leadership: Stoked & Delta Dental of Minnesota
In this video, you can watch Delta Dental of MN go through a Stoked learning experience to learn design thinking and find ways to apply what they've learned in their roles.
Using Design to Transform Child Welfare
Katie Miller, the Chief Innovation Officer from Alia takes us through their journey of applying design thinking to redesign the child welfare system.
Why Work Culture is Important
Anna discusses the importance of building trust in the workplace. This trust starts with practicing vulnerability. To quote Dr. Brene Brown, "you can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both." What kind of environment do you want to create? Lastly, Anna talks about the importance of measuring your cultural efforts.
"I Like, I Wish, How To" - Debriefing with your team!
Parker Gates shows us how to lead team debriefs after a working session using the "I Like, I Wish, How To" method.