Master the virtual environment!
Learn more about the traps of remote facilitation and prepare yourself to deliver a complete, engaging and impactful experience.
The Facilitation Experience is a learning journey where you can develop a set of key skills and techniques for facilitating high-impact innovation projects through the design perspective. You will have access to the basic knowledge that guide the facilitation in design thinking, from the formation of diverse and multidisciplinary teams to the delivery of the final product, going through all stages of the double diamond and taking into account the business objectives, the nature of the project and the roles of the participants.
Participate in practical simulations that will highlight the importance of visual, co-creative and generative facilitation to maintain the team’s engagement and energy through remote facilitation.
Boost the collectiveintelligence
Experience leading the team formation to facilitate the different stages of a design thinking project.
Get tools
Learn facilitation techniques to guide participatory decision-making in the moments of divergence and convergence in the project.
Design and
facilitate workshops
Exercise creativity when building and facilitating your own workshop with a personalised canvas.
Master the virtual environment
Learn more about the traps of remote facilitation and prepare yourself to deliver a complete, engaging and impactful experience.
Learn how to prepare the ground for the start of facilitation, from training the teams to organising the agreements between the participants. Understand how the relationship between leadership through design and facilitation can help create an innovation environment in the companies.
Practice essential listening techniques to safely navigate in the ambiguity and chaos that precede innovation. How to go through the moments of disagreement using the appropriate tools and preparing the ground for collective construction.
Learn more about the use of visual thinking, storytelling and digital prototyping for the creation of engaging narratives in a real case from Echos. Learn techniques for collaboration and the generation of powerful ideas in the remote environment. Practice facilitation in the stages of ideation, prototyping and testing.
Work on the resolution of challenging cases and situations to expand your resource repertoire to achieve more inclusive facilitation. How do you deal with difficult people without getting into collision course? Learn more about how the elements used in learning experience design at Echos School of Design Thinking support facilitation for innovation.
Learn a feedback technique that focuses on the observation of facts and not on an impartial judgement. Practice everything you learned in the course by taking the lead of a group for a longer period of time and receive feedback from members and course facilitators.
Extension of the practice of facilitation in groups. Learn more about the challenges of facilitation in innovation projects with a real case from Echos. Get a playbook with the canvas used in the course, links, tools and complementary activities to equip your facilitation “utility belt”.
Learn from experienced facilitators
6 meetings of 3 hours, all live
Echos Certificate
Access to the global network of innovators at Echos, with thousands of people around the world
Access to the platform for 6 months
Access authorial Echos content and tools for the entire journey
Echos School of Design Thinking - Terms and Conditions
General
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Changes to these Terms and Conditions
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Privacy Policy and Your Personal Information
Refer to the Privacy Policy, which form part of these terms and conditions.
Definitions
Capitalised terms used are defined in these terms and conditions.
In these terms:
“GST” has the meaning it has in the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (Cth)
“Liabilities” means all direct and/or indirect liability for: costs; damages; losses; claims, causes of action, accidents; injuries; deaths; law and traffic violations; and expenses including but not limited to legal fees.
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Echos School of Design ThinkingPrivacy Policy
This is the policy of Echos Innovation Lab Pty Ltd ABN 65 617 491 424 (Echos, or our or we) for dealing with your personal information (Privacy Policy).
Our business and the purpose of collection
We are in the business of providing educational and innovation knowledge courses (Courses). We collect personal information primarily to provide the Courses to you (Purpose).
In particular, we collect your personal information so that we can carry out the following actions:
to provide you with the Courses and any other products, services and information that you have requested from us;
to communicate with you, including about the Courses, products, services and events which might interest you;
to provide you with information or advice;
process payments by you to us for our services;
to create accounts, tax invoices or receipts;
to provide your personal information to third parties that assist us in providing and/or delivering the Courses or other goods or services you or they have requested;
to consider and respond to feedback from you;
to comply with laws or regulations or to comply with any directions given by regulators or authorities.
We may disclose additional purposes for collection of your personal information in collection statements at the point of collection.
Personal information we collect
When used in this policy, “personal information” has the meaning given to that term in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). We may collect the following types of personal information from you:
name;
residential or business address;
email address;
post code;
financial and payment information;
gender;
age and date of birth;
signature;
telephone number;
businesses you operate; and
your personal preferences, thoughts, ideas, goals and opinions.
Sensitive information
Sensitive information is information about you that reveals your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or affiliations, membership of a professional or trade association, membership of a trade union, details of health, disability, sexual orientation or criminal record.
It is our policy to only collect your sensitive information where it is reasonably necessary for our functions or activities and either you have consented or we are required or authorised under law to do so.
How we collect your personal information
Collection of your personal information can occur through the following interactions:
when you communicate with us directly (by email, in person, telephone, direct mail or any other means);
when we interact with you during the Courses or in relation to any other products or services; and/or
when you visit our website and social media pages, or access or contribute to digital platforms and applications managed by us (Online Platforms).
Cookies
We may use temporary (session) cookies or permanent cookies when you access our Online Platforms. This allows us to recognise your browser and track the web pages you have visited.
You can switch off cookies by adjusting the settings on your web browser.
How we hold your personal information
We may hold your personal information in either electronic or hard copy form.
If you provide information to us electronically we retain this information in our computer systems and databases. If you provide information to us in hard copy (paper) this information is normally retained in our files and a copy is made to our electronic files.
Security
We use industry standard security measures to safeguard and protect your information.
If we are unable to collect your personal information
If we are unable to collect your personal information, some or all of the following may occur:
we may be unable to provide the Courses or other products and services to you;
we may be unable to communicate with you to provide information about the Courses or other products or services that you have procured from us, or may intend to procure in the future;
we may be unable to tailor the content of our marketing communications to suit your preferences;
your experience when interacting with us may be delayed or not as efficient as you may expect.
Disclosure of your personal information
Your personal information may be disclosed in connection with any Purpose to any of the following:
our employees, contractors or service providers, to the extent reasonably necessary to fulfil our obligations to you;
our business advisors, including lawyers, accountants or other professional service providers, to the extent reasonably required;
suppliers, clients and other third parties with whom we have commercial relationships, for business, payment processing, delivery, marketing and related purposes;
if required by law, to any person authorised by such law.
Overseas disclosure of personal information
We may disclose your personal information to third parties and service providers located overseas in connection with any Purpose, including to overseas cloud computing hosts. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the overseas recipients of your personal information do not breach the privacy obligations relating to your personal information.
Links
Links from our Online Platforms to third party websites that we do not operate or control are provided for your convenience. We are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of websites that are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Third party websites should have their own privacy and security policies which we encourage you to read before supplying any personal information to them.
Direct Marketing
We may contact you with direct marketing communications and information about Courses or other products or services offered by us or our partners via telephone, email, SMS, or regular mail.
If you have indicated a preference for a method of communication, we will endeavour to use that method wherever practical to do so.
You may opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by responding via the channel in which you received the marketing communication, or by contacting us (see contact information below). You can unsubscribe from emails by clicking the unsubscribe link on the footer of the email communication you have received.
How you may access your information
You may access your personal information held by Echos by making a request to us.
Email: contact@echos.ccCorrection of your personal information
If you would like us to update or amend your personal information, please contact us and we will make the requested amendments.
We may ask you to verify your identity to ensure that personal information we hold is not improperly accessed.
Complaints
If you feel your privacy has been breached, please contact us using the contact information above setting out the circumstances and reasons for your complaint.
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