DESIGN ASSEMBLY WINTER LUNCH & LEARN SERIES

As the weather cools down and we cosy-up indoors, we invite you to join us for a trio of online workshops from the comfort of your office or couch. Three different presenters will lead you through a one and a half hour, lunchtime learning session with plenty of opportunities for questions and input along the way. So grab your mug of soup and a blanket, and join us for the Design Assembly Winter Lunch & Learn Series 2024

Dates | Wednesday 19 June, Wednesday 24 July & Thursday 29 August 2024

Time | 11.30am to 1pm

Where | Online…we’ll send you a link

Costs
DA Member | Friend $60+gst+bf (plus $45 for a CliftonStrengths Profile for workshop 1)
Non-member | $120+gst+bf (plus $45 for a CliftonStrengths Profile for workshop 1)

TICKETS APPLY TO ONE PERSON ONLY. This is a hands-on, interactive workshop with breakout rooms and group work. If you have multiple team members wanting to participate you will need to buy the appropriate number of tickets for your team and enter their contact details. 

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WORKSHOP ONE OVERVIEW
INTRODUCTION TO STRENGTHS WEBINAR

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE COULD FINALLY PUT A NAME TO THE THINGS WE DO BEST – OUR INNATE PERSONALITY STRENGTHS…AND ACCESS THEM DAILY TO HELP ACHIEVE OUR PERSONAL AND CAREER GOALS?

We all have talents; naturally recurring ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving that can be productively applied.  We use them every day to achieve what we are responsible for.  The challenge is that talents are innate.  We just do them without thinking.  So it can be difficult for us to describe them to others and even see the value in them ourselves.  An example of this is to think about the question, ‘What is one positive word people used to describe you?’ Many of us find this difficult to quickly answer.

This online workshop is designed to provide an overview of CliftonStrengths as a language of development. You will be sent a link to the CliftonStrengths questionnaire before the workshop.

In this workshop you will:

• Learn about the origin, theory and the power of CliftonStrengths
• Identify your strengths, understand and see where you are leveraging them
• Find out how to apply your strengths in your work by partnering with others

We all love a personality test.  We start by completing a CliftonStrengths profile which helps to identify and describe your talents.  The trick with any profile is that it is most powerful when you understand how to apply them uniquely to you.

This workshop is designed to help you discover:

• How to get the best out of you! Understand your 1 in 33 million point of difference.  Be able to confidently voice the unique way you approach your work.  What you are good at, and why?
• How to get the best out of others. Increase empathy for others, consider how we all do things differently and that through intentional partnerships you can make our work more impactful
• Tools to get right information from those you work with through adapting your style, by leveraging your talents and most importantly by asking the right questions

Who is this for?

• Creative Directors
• Design Directors
• Account Managers
• Design Studio Owners
• People moving into leadership roles, team managers
• Employees across all functions and roles; whether designers or the teams and roles that support them
• Freelance or contract designers looking to unlock natural strengths and turn them into their unique point of difference

Consider more than one person attending from your team to improve the collaboration between you. This workshop is the starting point for other Strengths-based workshops, such as ‘Maker to Manager’ coming up later in the year.

What will I walk away with?

• One action to apply strengths within the work you do and the clients you work with

COMPLETING THE STRENGTHS  PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE

Follow the steps below in order to complete the CliftonStrengths questionnaire before the workshop

1. Go to https://store.gallup.com
2. Select CliftonStrengths in the secondary horizontal menu
3. Click on Shop Now for the Top 5 CliftonStrengths (which gives an insight) OR CliftonStrengths 34 (which gives the depth).  If you choose Top 5, you can unlock the full 34 results later
4. Select how many codes you want and complete the check-out process
5. You will receive three e-mails from Gallup, 1 link to the profile, 2 x to confirm purchase.  Click on the survey link to start the profile
6. Select New to Gallup? Create an account to create a new profile
7. Complete the assessment.  A couple of things you need to know before taking the test https://www.jasonbiggs.nz/strengths-profile-instructions
8. Once you have completed the profile, to help understand the results complete this Quick Course https://www.jasonbiggs.nz/quick-course-from-talent-to-strength

This workshop’s feedback from the DA community:

I would be keen on my team also doing the questionnaire for themselves, as I found there were helpful insights in my report and was surprised by some of them.” – Mary Adams, Pōneke workshop attendee

“It was great both from an individual and team perspective. I attended with 3 other colleagues and it has been a great subject of discussion and exchange.” -Tāmaki Makaurau workshop attendee

Meet your facilitator: Jason Biggs — The Strengths Collective

Jason helps workplaces and their people hum through coaching, workshops and self-sustaining tools that help you short circuit the process and DIY. His method helps to identify and play to yours, your teams’ and your organisation’s strengths, have better, regular and more impactful coaching conversations, and focus on the important stuff. Jason has worked in the corporate sector for over 20 years, marketing brands like NESCAFE, KLEENEX and HUGGIES. He thrives helping people understand why they do what they do and to leverage this to get what they want. He’s a commercial guy at heart so that means delivering good business outcomes. In the last ten years he’s coached hundreds of people either as individuals or teams and worked with organisations such as Spark, Nestle, Freightways, New Zealand Blood Service, Chapman Tripp, Downer, Fonterra, Kiwicare, The Tile Depot.

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BUY ALL THREE WORKSHOPS | GET 25% OFF

Register and pay for all three workshops at once and get a 25% discount off the price of individual tickets
(Please note: the Strengths Profile test is a fixed cost and is not included in the price of workshop one and the package price. Please email events@designassembly.org.nz for information about how to book your Strengths Profile test.)

There is a separate event for this package. See this link to book all three sessions for the special DISCOUNT OFFER

DA Friend | Member cost for all three workshops (including Strengths Profile test) is $135+gst+bf
Non-member cost for all three workshops (including Strengths Profile test) is $270+gst+bf

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Not a DA Friend? Sign-up to help DA help you! We’ve got options for everyone. We look forward to welcoming you to a Design Assembly event soon! Below are links to the other events in the Winter Lunch & Learning Series….

Lunch & Learn Two | 24 July | Design for Gender Justice with Dr Sarah Baker

Lunch & Learn Three | 29 August | Digital Sustainability with Kyoko Locussol