Moving away from hands-on Work as a Design Leader
summary
Transition from hands-on to leadership reframes the work: five concrete levers show how to create visible impact without mockups. Run a workshop to map all team meetings, remove redundancies and assign an owner to each meeting so fewer interruptions and clearer outcomes. Set performance goals split into Operational/Value/Team to shift from outputs to measurable impact. Build a stakeholder orbit map to surface sales/marketing/partners needs. Create a Handbook of me in FigJam so new teammates trust and collaborate faster.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and audience
- 2:57Value of design leadership
- 7:15Trap of operational work
- 10:27Fix team meetings
- 15:26Improve performance goals
- 23:13Expand designer horizons
- 28:33Increase design consistency
- 32:49Remove collaboration problems
- 37:02Summary and final thoughts
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