Cooper U: Designing Culture Workshop - October
Date and time
Location
Cooper
85 2nd St 8th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105Refund Policy
Description
Designing Culture Workshop
Class size limited to 25 seats
Healthy culture means maximized results of your team’s talents, inspired products, and happy customers. Take charge by designing a culture that aligns with your organization’s definition of success.
In this one-day workshop, we’ll coach you through a cultural assessment, using visioning and goal-setting exercises that provide new ways of working as a team. Learn about crafting values and practices that align with your company’s vision, and leave with a dent in your plan for an active and inspired office culture that you can employ immediately.
Why this class is essential:
Culture is the backbone of any organization and can have a significant impact on a team’s ability to produce great work. Whether you’re at a startup, or you manage an established team, checking in on the health of your culture and identifying new ways of working together can help you avoid organizational and team alignment issues that can negatively affect your bottom line.
What participants will learn:
- What culture is and how it affects teams and organizations
- How to assess the health of your culture and identify opportunities for change
- Finding inspiration and fodder in the practices of other teams and organizations
- Crafting a compelling vision for your culture
- Negotiating and designing new values and practices based on your vision
- Creating an action plan to sustain and grow healthy culture over time
Who should attend:
Individuals and teams from any industry who are ready to establish culture or embrace change and new ways of interacting. Design experience is not required.
Intersted in more Cooper U classes?
Check out our full schedule. The Designing Culture workshop is a particularly nice compliment to Design Leadership.
Cancellation Policy
We know things happen. If you need to cancel your registration, notify us by emailing cooperu@cooper.com at least 30 days prior to the course and we will refund your full payment. Less than 30 days prior to the course, there are no refunds available. Alternatively, you can transfer your registration once to another course within one year of the date of cancellation or assign another individual from your organization to take your place. Once your registration is transferred, you may no longer receive a refund.
Organized by
Cooper Professional Education is a team of educators within Designit that helps organizations adopt a human-centered approach to innovation. Through our global programs and courses, we offer the right mindset, methodology, and tools to build collaborative and creative cultures.
Our team formed in 2001 as a professional development initiative at Cooper, one of the first interaction design firms. Cooper was founded by Sue and Alan Cooper, a pioneer of the modern computing era who created the programming language Visual Basic. Methods like goal-directed design, design persona, and pair design were born in our offices, and we wrote industry-standard books on design practice like “About Face.”
In 2017, Cooper became part of Designit, a global strategic design firm that specializes in creating high-impact products, services, systems, and spaces that people love. is a part of , one of the largest technology, consulting, and business companies in the world.
We’re thrilled to join our new global family and bundle our forces on a joint mission: helping companies innovate and transform. And as an integral team within Designit, we can now offer education by experienced teachers under a new name. Today, we offer education services in North America, South America, Europe, India, and Australia, and we’re excited to help even more people as we grow.