Rich Brophy
 

 TOOLS & RESOURCES

 
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DESIGN LEADERSHIP TRACKER

Build awareness of your role as a design leader, and track how you’re trending over time.

Drop this tracker into a recurring calendar invite and fill it in each week to set a path for better design leadership. Review your results in a spreadsheet every few months to see how you’re progressing.

The tracker helps you focus on:

  • Doing the work

  • Shaping the team

  • Forging the path

The content is based on a superb session on the role of a design leader by very clever ex-Googler Matt Johnson.

Download your tracker.

 

PUZZLING PERSONALITIES

Trying to wrangle different personalities in a collaborative environment?

This simple work-in-progress guide will help you spot different kinds of people and leverage their personalities for the good of the group.

Download the deck here.

 

PIVOT

Worried your workshop could get derailed? Make it robust by planning for the worst.

This collection of prickly prompts will help you and your team plan how you’ll pivot if things go wrong. Generate a scenario, discuss your strategy for dealing with it, then move onto the next.

This is an epic way to lift your facilitation game.

Get started here.

 

FUTURES OF IMPACT

Ready to move to a more meaningful career but don’t know where to start?

This super-simple exercise will help to generate potential careers possibilities that leverage your strengths, ambitions and personal drive.

Download the exercise here.

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Ethical by design - principles for good technology

A set of principles for anyone designing technology with an eye on the bigger picture and the longer term.

Tools for better thinking

A collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.

Guides and tools for collaboration

An epic guide to co-creation tools and workshop design used by innovators and facilitators around the world. A must for newbie facilitators.

Tools for transforming businesses

A consistently updated toolkit for all kinds of business transformation.

Tools to design a business from scratch

One of the best books and toolkits for starting a business right.

Better retrospective activities

Fun and engaging ways to look back and improve the way you work.

How many users to interview

Great explainer on how many you need (and why).

Generate a consent form for your research

From the great international ReOps community.

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