Overview
About the course
This Design Leadership and Design Thinking Facilitation program at Singapore Management University aims to equip Design thinking/UX professionals with essential soft skills such as understanding business context, positioning design thinking, influencing people to drive positive change in their organisations.
The Design Leadership and Design Thinking Facilitation course at Singapore Management University consists of hands-on practice of facilitation skills and lectures on change management theory, storytelling and design leadership.
At the end of the programme, participants will be equipped with a new lens to tackle the business challenge while advocating human-centricity; and developing individual action plans to become a powerful change agent in their organisation.
Programme Structure
What you will learn:
- Sharpen your design thinking capability
- Sharpen human-centred design methods in practice such as journey mapping, interviewing, prototyping and leading brainstorming sessions
- Build facilitation skills
- Assess DT facilitation skills and learn how to mobilise people in the organisation towards human-centricity
- Practice facilitating design research, synthesising insights and structured ideation
- Drive change through DT in the organisation
- Learn how to influence people through storytelling and develop your story blueprint
- Learn change management theory and how design can be used as a powerful vehicle to drive change
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 4 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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- Online registration will close 5 calendar days before the course start date
Language
Delivered
Disciplines
Design User Experience Design View 5 other Short Courses in User Experience Design in SingaporeAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
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- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
Who should attend:
- DT/ UX practitioners who have at least 3 years of experience in running design thinking practice within their organisations
Applicants trained in design thinking are required to attend Innovating through Design Thinking: The Advanced Applications.
Applicants with no prior training in design thinking are required to attend the following courses:
- Innovating through Design Thinking: The Fundamentals; and
- Innovating through Design Thinking: The Advanced Applications
Tuition Fee
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International
4360 SGD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4360 SGD for the full programme during 4 days. -
National
1308 SGD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1308 SGD for the full programme during 4 days.
- Singapore Citizen ≥ 40 years old: $508
Living costs for Singapore
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.