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      The business case for rituals, the key elements behind a ritual, and techniques and tips on how to design rituals in your own workplace.
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      Learn about what a career in teambuilding looks like from a senior teambuilding specialist at IDEO.
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    • How to Be a Facilitative Leader

      We talked with Dabney Hailey, founder and principal of Hailey Group, about the Visual Thinking Strategies (or VTS) method, why it works, how to bring elements of it into your daily practice, and why leaders should shift to the facilitative leadership style this method teaches. Here are six takeaways from our conversation.

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    • Mentor Moment: How Do I Onboard New Team Members To Encourage Collaboration?

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      Get activities and ideas for onboarding a team from IDEO’s Heather Currier Hunt.

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      Wondering how to create lasting change in your organization? Here’s how to identify your change journey and three frameworks to get started.

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    • Real Talk: How to Share Hard Truths With Your Team

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      Consider your delivery of difficult information an experience to be designed. Here’s a step-by-step guide to getting into messy truths.

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    • To Maintain Team Momentum, Shift Modes Of Working

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      Katie Soven, senior portfolio director at IDEO and IDEO U course instructor shares how to maintain team momentum through complexity...

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    • Strengthen Your Intuition Muscle with This Activity

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      Try this activity at the start of a new project to help your team get comfortable tapping into their intuition.

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    • How Leaders Leverage Intuition to Navigate Complexity

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      IDEO Senior Portfolio Director Dwayne Edwards gives a framework for balancing intuition and data, shares strategies to surface an intuitive ability in yourself and in your team, and talks about the importance of building self-awareness to fuel your intuition.

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    • How to Build Culture Remotely: A Survey of Our Community

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      For many organizations, culture building has been impacted by remote work—and will need to be reimagined. The IDEO U community shared ideas on remote culture building, from connecting with your purpose to finding moments of celebration.

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      In a future of work that for many will be a combination of virtual and in-person, we’ll need to tackle one of the biggest challenges of remote work: Zoom fatigue. We reached out to the IDEO U community and heard your best tips on staying inspired and engaged, from making a new commute to designing an end-of-day ritual.

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