Learning in action: as the day progressed, the table got messier 🙃 Today I had great fun workshopping with the latest PhD cohort at the EPSRC CDT in Geospatial Systems at Newcastle University.
In this innovation and enterprise workshop students learned about starting with the problem – not the geospatial solution – and crafting a convincing story that focused on the client’s needs, not the shiny tech.
I have designed and run this workshop multiple times using a combination of LEGO Serious Play and business development templates such as Empathy Map and Lean Canvas.
And yet some of today’s feedback was again new and unexpected.
Sure, everyone enjoyed the hands-on creativity and playfulness of LEGO. But what this group appreciated even more was the quiet reflection time that this process afforded – “it did not feel rushed like other training courses”. And the collaboration felt completely natural, joining things up brick by brick.
In other words, we worked – and learned – like children. No instruction manual required.
True Horizon Coaching 