R is for Reflect

In this episode

Aimed at design thinking newbies, and those who are curious about how they can use design thinking to boost their business and improve their lives.

Join Lucy Patterson and Tracy Sharp - two Northern lasses who support business owners and individuals to use design thinking - as we empower you to think differently and get creative...without messing up your jumpers with crayons.

You can support us in the following ways:

Take a listen, connect with us on LinkedIn, ask us questions, and be prepared for a great array of special guests as we progress from A to Z.

Lucy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucypattersonflourish/
https://flourishunlimited.co.uk/

Tracy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracychristinasharp/
https://www.sharpminds.coach/

If you have any questions, or would like to work with us, please email designthinkingaz@gmail.com

Throughout the season ourselves and our guests will also be sharing some useful books and additional resources with you. These are shared via our Amazon Associates account. As such we will receive a small monetary reimbursement for any purchases made.

In this episode we

Aimed at design thinking newbies, and those who are curious about how they can use design thinking to boost their business and improve their lives.

Join Lucy Patterson and Tracy Sharp - two Northern lasses who support business owners and individuals to use design thinking - as we empower you to think differently and get creative...without messing up your jumpers with crayons.

You can support us in the following ways:

Take a listen, connect with us on LinkedIn, ask us questions, and be prepared for a great array of special guests as we progress from A to Z.

Lucy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucypattersonflourish/
https://flourishunlimited.co.uk/

Tracy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracychristinasharp/
https://www.sharpminds.coach/

If you have any questions, or would like to work with us, please email designthinkingaz@gmail.com

Throughout the season ourselves and our guests will also be sharing some useful books and additional resources with you. These are shared via our Amazon Associates account. As such we will receive a small monetary reimbursement for any purchases made.

In this episode we discover whether 'X' really does mark the spot, as we explain more about the 'Define' stage of the design thinking process. 

Aimed at design thinking newbies, and those who are curious about how they can use design thinking to boost their business and improve their lives.

Join Lucy Patterson and Tracy Sharp - two Northern lasses who support business owners and individuals to use design thinking - as we empower you to think differently and get creative...without messing up your jumpers with crayons.

You can support us in the following ways:

Take a listen, connect with us on LinkedIn, ask us questions, and be prepared for a great array of special guests as we progress from A to Z.

Lucy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucypattersonflourish/
https://flourishunlimited.co.uk/

Tracy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracychristinasharp/
https://www.sharpminds.coach/

If you have any questions, or would like to work with us, please email designthinkingaz@gmail.com

Throughout the season ourselves and our guests will also be sharing some useful books and additional resources with you. These are shared via our Amazon Associates account. As such we will receive a small monetary reimbursement for any purchases made.

In this episode, we uncover a few of the reasons why workshops can be innovation and creative goldmines when you're looking to solve a problem, make a decision, or whenever you have a challenge ahead of yourself or your team.

We look at how design thinking workshops are actually more likely to produce iterational innovation, than the transformational innovation that we hear about in the media, before explaining the need for good preparations, the limitations of workshops, and how to get the buy in of everyone involved.

Along the way we touch on the need for diversity and inclusion, and of course we share some exercises and tools you can try for yourself. Prototype party anyone?!  

Aimed at design thinking newbies, and those who are curious about how they can use design thinking to boost their business and improve their lives.

Join Lucy Patterson and Tracy Sharp - two Northern lasses who support business owners and individuals to use design thinking - as we empower you to think differently and get creative...without messing up your jumpers with crayons.

You can support us in the following ways:

Take a listen, connect with us on LinkedIn, ask us questions, and be prepared for a great array of special guests as we progress from A to Z.

Lucy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucypattersonflourish/
https://flourishunlimited.co.uk/

Tracy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracychristinasharp/
https://www.sharpminds.coach/

If you have any questions, or would like to work with us, please email designthinkingaz@gmail.com

Throughout the season ourselves and our guests will also be sharing some useful books and additional resources with you. These are shared via our Amazon Associates account. As such we will receive a small monetary reimbursement for any purchases made.

In this episode we're joined by Lara Doherty, Founder of The Motivation Clinic, and 
Author of The Mighty Book of Motivation.

Adept at using the power of visualisation, with a particular interest in the power of vision boards to fuel your achievements and help you reach your goals, Lara explains how she now pays this power forward to others.

Visualisation techniques have been used by sports coaches to improve the performance of sports stars very successfully for decades, yet visualisation still conjurs up a notion of 'woo woo' when we think of the types of people who use it.

A simple way of future-pacing your subconscious, including visualisation in your daily work and business life can actually have a massive impact. 

Using visualisation within the design thinking process, is a great aid to getting a team on board with a central mission. Given that your brain is 65% more likely to remember a picture than it is a word or phrase, you can see why it is so important when needing to ensure people remember and retain information. 

Agree? Then join us as we discover the most effective visualisation techniques, that are easily implemented into your daily habits.

Don't agree? Then there's even more reason to join us. Let's see if we can challenge your opinion... because there's always something new to learn! 

Aimed at design thinking newbies, and those who are curious about how they can use design thinking to boost their business and improve their lives.

Join Lucy Patterson and Tracy Sharp - two Northern lasses who support business owners and individuals to use design thinking - as we empower you to think differently and get creative...without messing up your jumpers with crayons.

You can support us in the following ways:

Take a listen, connect with us on LinkedIn, ask us questions, and be prepared for a great array of special guests as we progress from A to Z.

Lucy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucypattersonflourish/
https://flourishunlimited.co.uk/

Tracy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracychristinasharp/
https://www.sharpminds.coach/

If you have any questions, or would like to work with us, please email designthinkingaz@gmail.com

Throughout the season ourselves and our guests will also be sharing some useful books and additional resources with you. These are shared via our Amazon Associates account. As such we will receive a small monetary reimbursement for any purchases made.

In this episode we welcome the inimitible Christine Hemphill from Open Inclusion.

With a background in design, Christine now specialises in inclusive product design, with a particular interest in age and disability.

From retail to banking, healthcare to transport, Christine's knowledge, understanding and desire to disrupt the product design sector for the greater good is admirable.

We're all 'users' of products, but due to her dislike of the transactional nature of this word, she makes sure that us as 'humans' are the the heart of everything she does instead.

Should designers be designing because they like the creative output, or should they be designing for the purpose of others?

Are you curious enough to want to consider alternative perspectives to yours?

How do the differences between humans affect the way we interact with our surroundings? 

Christine answers all these questions and more.  

So join us as we learn from her insight, appreciate her calm approach, and are forced to reconsider the value of an MVP (minimum viable product).

Aimed at design thinking newbies, and those who are curious about how they can use design thinking to boost their business and improve their lives.

Join Lucy Patterson and Tracy Sharp - two Northern lasses who support business owners and individuals to use design thinking - as we empower you to think differently and get creative...without messing up your jumpers with crayons.

You can support us in the following ways:

Take a listen, connect with us on LinkedIn, ask us questions, and be prepared for a great array of special guests as we progress from A to Z.

Lucy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucypattersonflourish/
https://flourishunlimited.co.uk/

Tracy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracychristinasharp/
https://www.sharpminds.coach/

If you have any questions, or would like to work with us, please email designthinkingaz@gmail.com

Throughout the season ourselves and our guests will also be sharing some useful books and additional resources with you. These are shared via our Amazon Associates account. As such we will receive a small monetary reimbursement for any purchases made.

In this episode we dive deeper into the psyche of co-host Tracy Sharp.

To get us started, Lucy makes Tracy share her career profile with us, as if she'd written it for a dating app...then we get serious!

From the highlights of working on the 'Foodi' for SharkNinja whilst out in China, to the burn out that followed; Tracy provides honest and open insight into her life as a female in a male dominated environment.

Listener questions provide further insight into Tracy's confidence and resilience levels, and there's lessons for us all to learn from the way she uses any set-backs as a tool for personal growth.  

Confidence as a muscle, balancing ambition with burnt out, questions she asks herself regularly, conscious decision making, staying loyal to her values, and the things she would say to her 25 year old self...nothing is off limits. 

Join us as we get under her skin, and find out a bit more about how her rollercoaster journey from employed to self-employed has shaped her very being.

Aimed at design thinking newbies, and those who are curious about how they can use design thinking to boost their business and improve their lives.

Join Lucy Patterson and Tracy Sharp - two Northern lasses who support business owners and individuals to use design thinking - as we empower you to think differently and get creative...without messing up your jumpers with crayons.

You can support us in the following ways:

Take a listen, connect with us on LinkedIn, ask us questions, and be prepared for a great array of special guests as we progress from A to Z.

Lucy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucypattersonflourish/
https://flourishunlimited.co.uk/

Tracy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracychristinasharp/
https://www.sharpminds.coach/

If you have any questions, or would like to work with us, please email designthinkingaz@gmail.com

Throughout the season ourselves and our guests will also be sharing some useful books and additional resources with you. These are shared via our Amazon Associates account. As such we will receive a small monetary reimbursement for any purchases made.

In this episode we discuss the impact of story-telling; more importantly the impact of good story-telling.

As a design engineer, Tracy shares a story of a hotel stay that didn't live up to expectations, and how story-telling could have helped the hotel to better improve her experience.

Lucy sings the tune to a 1980's Milky Way tv advert that shows how story-telling links to nostalgia, marketing, and sales.  (It also proves that Lucy shouldn't give up her day job!) 
 
From character plots, to the creation of emotional connections, from the ability to frame a problem more effectively, to the capacity to build empathy and resonance with clients, good story-telling is integral to the design thinking process. 

Using story-telling, sharing your journey (story) , and creating your vision of the future, then makes marketing and investment so much easier!

Stories are shared, stories are passed through generations, stories are how we learn and grow. So join us and discover how you can use the power of story-telling to maximum effect. 

Aimed at design thinking newbies, and those who are curious about how they can use design thinking to boost their business and improve their lives.

Join Lucy Patterson and Tracy Sharp - two Northern lasses who support business owners and individuals to use design thinking - as we empower you to think differently and get creative...without messing up your jumpers with crayons.

You can support us in the following ways:

Take a listen, connect with us on LinkedIn, ask us questions, and be prepared for a great array of special guests as we progress from A to Z.

Lucy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucypattersonflourish/
https://flourishunlimited.co.uk/

Tracy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracychristinasharp/
https://www.sharpminds.coach/

If you have any questions, or would like to work with us, please email designthinkingaz@gmail.com

Throughout the season ourselves and our guests will also be sharing some useful books and additional resources with you. These are shared via our Amazon Associates account. As such we will receive a small monetary reimbursement for any purchases made.

In this episode we discuss how to use the power of reflection in order to boost your mindset and discover the benefits that taking time to reflect can have on your business and life.

Tracy shares the reflection questions she claims stopped her from quitting during the early days of running her own business, and Lucy shares how she uses reflection methods to maintain communication and momentum within her growing business team. 

We chat through the Baader Meinhoff Effect and Imposter Syndrome, and help explain some of the science behind why reflection can have such impactful outcomes. 

We touch on the Pareto Principal, and share some useful reflection tools that you could use in a variety of situations. And of course, we provide personal examples of how we use reflection tools in our daily lives and business'. 

Reflection can truly support a healthy and inclusive company culture, so join us as we help you foster such an environment.

  

Aimed at design thinking newbies, and those who are curious about how they can use design thinking to boost their business and improve their lives.

Join Lucy Patterson and Tracy Sharp - two Northern lasses who support business owners and individuals to use design thinking - as we empower you to think differently and get creative...without messing up your jumpers with crayons.

You can support us in the following ways:

Take a listen, connect with us on LinkedIn, ask us questions, and be prepared for a great array of special guests as we progress from A to Z.

Lucy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucypattersonflourish/
https://flourishunlimited.co.uk/

Tracy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracychristinasharp/
https://www.sharpminds.coach/

If you have any questions, or would like to work with us, please email designthinkingaz@gmail.com

Throughout the season ourselves and our guests will also be sharing some useful books and additional resources with you. These are shared via our Amazon Associates account. As such we will receive a small monetary reimbursement for any purchases made.

In this episode we look at the potential of questions within the innovation and design thinking process.

We uncover some of the cross-overs between design thinking and lean manufacturing, and share the Japanese origins of a very simple, yet effective exercise, '5 Whys'.

Plus, of course, because we're all about actionable insight, we provide you with some real life examples that enable you get to the crux of various problems by putting this exercise to good use.

Aimed at design thinking newbies, and those who are curious about how they can use design thinking to boost their business and improve their lives.

Join Lucy Patterson and Tracy Sharp - two Northern lasses who support business owners and individuals to use design thinking - as we empower you to think differently and get creative...without messing up your jumpers with crayons.

You can support us in the following ways:

Take a listen, connect with us on LinkedIn, ask us questions, and be prepared for a great array of special guests as we progress from A to Z.

Lucy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucypattersonflourish/
https://flourishunlimited.co.uk/

Tracy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracychristinasharp/
https://www.sharpminds.coach/

If you have any questions, or would like to work with us, please email designthinkingaz@gmail.com

Throughout the season ourselves and our guests will also be sharing some useful books and additional resources with you. These are shared via our Amazon Associates account. As such we will receive a small monetary reimbursement for any purchases made.