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The CDO School Leadership Playbook
The CDO School Leadership Playbook is disruptive to conventional design leadership wisdom. At CDO School, we are focused on helping you make design a more relevant, indispensable, and valued business unit at your company.
Four Fits to make design crucial at your company while pushing for people-first interests.
The Four Fits of Design Org Value: a framework developed by Ryan Rumsey for Chief Design Officer School. A guide designed to transform how design leaders position their teams within the broader business landscape of their companies.
A quick, 3-step process to ask better questions during job interviews
Fundamentally, I want to know if the job I’m interviewing for will be a good fit for me. Here’s a quick, 3-step process to determine the questions I want to ask a potential employer about a role.
Our ultimate list of metrics for design leaders
Getting started with metrics as a designer can be difficult! Here's a list of some common metrics you and your product or customer support partners may use to determine whether your work connects to theirs.
5 steps to turn your OKRs into logical, measurable categories of design and business health with POKRs and North Star Maps
Perspectives, objectives, and key results (POKRs) is a framework to add quality factors of design and business health to traditional OKR methodology.
5 steps to find stakeholders and key collaborators who will champion your ideas.
If you want to try new things, build a case of evidence that those things work, and are looking to find an executive sponsor, use our free Stakeholder Mapping canvas.
A handy dialogue script to practice active listening with your most difficult colleagues and ask for tiny behavior changes.
Learn a dialogue script to practice active listening with your colleagues to ask for small behavior changes. The Imago Dialogue Script.
When you lead Design, Design is the product.
When you lead Design people, teams, and the organization, the most significant shift is knowing that most of your colleagues don't think about design as a craft or practice. They think about it as a group of people with specific skills and capabilities with a budget… essentially a big pile of "features". Yes, they want to know how these "features" help customers, but they really want to know how those "features" also help them.
How reconnecting with ancestry, culture, city, and community raised my confidence as a design leader
Hiya! I'm Carolina Tod. Working with product design in Brazil for at least 15 years, I learned to appreciate more things from abroad than my own. This fact made me compare myself with others with different experiences, backgrounds, and life stories than mine, leaving me constantly stuck. It’s important I reconnect with ancestry, culture, city, and community to build confidence.
Quickly evaluate if the conditions are ripe for change with Force Field Analysis
Force-field Analysis is a great visualization tool used to rapidly examine the forces both for and against a change.
Introducing Chief Design Officer School
Announcing Chief Design Officer School, the new home for Second Wave Dive’s renowned courses and learning programs. Applications for January 2023 are open!
Develop a sense of how your cross-functional partners perceive you with The Good Partner Map.
Develop a sense of how your cross-functional partners perceive you with The Good Partner Map. Use this resource to document a model of your functional value, to understand how excited your partners are to work with you, how easy your team is to engage with, and how to to continuously improve your partnerships.
Open House: How design leaders get strategic clarity at CDO School
In this webinar, CDO School founder Ryan Rumsey shares more about our approach to learning, what it means to be part of a global network of 700+ graduates, our instructional space, and answers questions about why this program is like no other course out there.