Description
Book SynopsisDesigners are more in-demand than ever, and companies worldwide are creating new leadership roles to manage them. With only a few select institutions teaching effective design management practices, self-taught designers are on the rise, and resources are needed to guide them. Design Management is here to hone your capacity to manage like a leader and magnify your team''s potential, demonstrating how to combine managerial and leadership competencies leveraging neuroscience, psychology, and sociology notions.
This book will help eager designers learn the behavioral abilities required to create, lead and manage high-performing design teams using a systemic, context-agnostic, and therefore repeatable approach. While effective design management is vital in these times of complexity and fast change in organizations, the available literature is insufficient, predominately informative, not based on research, and not actionable. Design Management fills that gap by illuminating the skil
Table of Contents
Part 1. Managing like a Leader
1. The Behavioral Elements of a Design Manager
2. The Building Blocks of a Design Leader
Part 2. Managing Yourself
3. Create Your Development Plan
4. Establish Your Core Practices
5. Build Influence
Part 3. Managing Design Teams
6. Develop your Team
7. Optimizing Creativity and Collaboration
8. Optimize Operations
9. Recruiting and Hiring Practice
