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Build your innovation and design muscle through hands-on, practical learning experiences that deliver real impact.

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Innovation &Design Bootcamps

Customer Empathy: Beyond the Basics SkillGym

All too often, the empathy work in design processes barely scratches the surface, and doesn't help us deliver more value for our customers. In this free online workshop, we'll take you beyond the basics of customer empathy and explore how to uncover powerful and practical insights about the people you're designing for.

$ 0.00 AUD

Designing User Journeys SkillGym

In a day and age where customers expect fast, convenient and flexible service, getting your user journeys right has never been more important. In this free online workshop we'll explore the value of user journey design, and introduce you to practical tools.

$ 0.00 AUD

Systems Thinking in Design SkillGym

In this free 90-minute online workshop we'll aim to demystifying the dark art of systems thinking, exploring some of its key concepts and practical application.

$ 0.00 AUD

How to Run a Design Sprint

This free 90-minute free online workshop will build your confidence to run fast-paced, collaborative design sprints in your team to make progress on big problems quickly.

$ 0.00 AUD

Designing for Social Impact

Bringing together some of the key insights from our popular social innovation program -The Good People, this free online workshop will help you apply design and innovation skills to the world of social impact.

$ 0.00 AUD

Challenging your Design Assumptions

Learn to set aside your assumptions and take a humble approach to design.

$ 0.00 AUD

How to Read and Lead the Room

Get to grips with the key facilitation skills you need for the modern age.

$ 0.00 AUD

Masters of Growth

Join us for a masterclass in high-scale growth from three of Perth's leading marketing experts.

$ 0.00 AUD

Product Powerhouse

Join Perth’s leading product powerhouses for a masterclass in how products are prototyped, validated, built and managed in the modern age.

$ 0.00 AUD

Stories from Corporate Innovators

Hear first-hand what it takes to lead the innovation charge in a large company.

$ 0.00 AUD

Purpose-driven branding for generation why

Purpose is the new black in business, but it’s already being dangerously misunderstood by company owners the world over. It’s not about brand image, it’s about truth.

$ 39.00 AUD

Tools for Radical Empathy in Innovation

Whether we're designing new products and services or improving existing ones, we know it's key to put the people we're innovating for at the heart of our approach.

$ 0.00 AUD

Intro to Circular Design

In this SkillGym session Dylan Lamb from Holonic will be introducing us to the emerging field of Circular Design.

$ 0.00 AUD

Transformative Learning Design and Facilitation

In this SkillGym session, Matt from the Skills of the Modern Age team will share his learnings from Kaospilot's Masterclass in Designing and Facilitating Learning Spaces.

$ 0.00 AUD

Tools for Rapid Self-Awareness

In today's fast-paced and complex world of work, it's more important than ever to have a strong understanding of your own skills, flaws and values.

$ 0.00 AUD

A Beginner's Guide to Navigating Complexity

Have you heard of the acronym VUCA? Even if you haven't, the concepts are probably familiar - our world is becoming increasingly Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous, and these shifts are demanding a new set of skills so that we're able to find our way in the midst of this constant change.

$ 0.00 AUD

Repeat - Transformative Learning Design and Facilitation

In this SkillGym session, Matt from the Skills of the Modern Age team will share his learnings from Kaospilot's Masterclass in Designing and Facilitating Learning Spaces.

$ 0.00 AUD

How Gamification can Supercharge Service Design

Gamification is the application of game elements to non-game contexts. It might sound a bit dry, but it's actually a lot of fun to think about how adding reward systems, player progression, competition and narrative to other parts of life can improve our experiences.

$ 0.00 AUD

How to Prototype your Tech Solution in an Hour

Whether it's a new app, an updated website, or the biggest viral sensation since Candy Crush, we know you've got a tech idea you've been wanting to test out. The trouble is, prototyping tech solutions is fiddly, time-consuming and expensive.

$ 0.00 AUD

Three Ideation Tools Better than Brainstorming

Let's face it - we're all a bit sick of brainstorms. They're often upbeat and exciting, and they leave you feeling energised and accomplished - until you realise that you didn't come up with any practical ideas, and anyway, your boss is just going ahead with what they were already planning regardless.

$ 0.00 AUD

How to Turn Bad Meetings into Good Ones

Explore ways to spice up your meetings and make them more efficient, meaningful, and enjoyable.

$ 0.00 AUD

How to Create Practical Personas

With snacks and drinks in hand, we look forward to developing practical customer personas with you!

$ 0.00 AUD

How to Develop Career Agility

For this SkillGym, we'll be joined by special guest Kat Clements, Special Projects Coordinator (and previously Manager of Careers & Leadership Development) at Curtin University!

$ 0.00 AUD

Lean Planning with LEGO

We'll be joined by special guest Joel Birch, Founder of The Very Serious Business Co to learn all about a facilitation method that gets people thinking with their hands and explaining what they've built in order to unlock creativity and innovation!

$ 0.00 AUD

Prototyping, Adapting and Iterating

Over the coming months, we'll be bringing you 90-minute online workouts to keep your innovation skills sharp as we create the future of work together.

$ 0.00 AUD

User Empathy in Uncertainty

Over the coming months, we'll be bringing you 90-minute online workouts to keep your innovation skills sharp as we create the future of work together.

$ 0.00 AUD

Adapting to Blended Working

Blended working (just like blended learning) involves a combination of the in-person and the virtual.

$ 0.00 AUD

Finding Leverage in Systems

We explore how systems thinking can help innovators to find the leverage points in systems where the applying the least resources and effort can lead to the biggest impact.

$ 0.00 AUD

Creative Ideation through Constraints

Explore the power of constraints to unlock more creative and more impactful ideas.

$ 0.00 AUD

Designing for Surprise and Delight

The best customer journeys also include powerful and memorable moments: moments where you go above and beyond to surprise and delight your customers!

$ 0.00 AUD

Beyond Bitcoin

Join leading local experts as we discuss one of the most hyped technology trends of the last decade and explore the opportunity and impacts that Bitcoin represents.

$ 0.00 AUD

Up close with virtual reality

Anyone curious about virtual reality and keen to experience it first-hand. Marketers, startups, small business owners and tech enthusiasts welcome; no experience with VR necessary.

$ 19.00 AUD

Rapid Design Research Methods

Conducting research to understand the data and context around your challenge is a crucial part of any design process. But too often, research can become a blocker to progress.

$ 0.00 AUD

How to Talk about Social Innovation

Explore the ways language and framing can impact social change efforts, and share some expert advice for social innovators about how to stay on message and make your messaging and metaphors work for you.

$ 0.00 AUD

Trendspotting for Innovation

Explore the power of futures thinking to help you understanding the driving forces that will shape the years ahead.

$ 0.00 AUD

Facilitating Online with Impact

With much of the country working from home, video calls have become a huge part of how we do business. Learn how to create deeper engagement with your team, customers and clients online!

$ 0.00 AUD

Emotional Intelligence in Innovation

We explore the key domains of emotional intelligence, and map how they apply to both individual and collaborative innovation processes.

$ 0.00 AUD

Introduction to Learning Design

Through a range of leading frameworks and hands-on activities, you'll discover how to carefully craft learning experiences that produce tangible outputs and powerful outcomes for your participants.

$ 0.00 AUD

How to Conduct Rich Customer Interviews

Empathising with your customers or clients is key to making sure that you understand the core of the problem at hand, and that your solution works for the people who actually have to use it.

$ 0.00 AUD

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