Learning from Design Thinking Workshop: Personal and Professional Development

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Learning
Reflective Report
Student name

Learning 1
Introduction
Creativity is necessary for the innovation and other things. Therefore, the
student must follow the various techniques to develop their creativity and other
skills, which will help into development of their personal and knowledge areas. In
addition, there are some basic needs for learning about the basic thinking and
understanding about a particular problem. Design Thinking (DT) is a process to
develop creative and innovative ideas. DT provides various advantages to improve
the skills in a person in perspective of personal and professional point of view
(Johns, 2017).
This report will provide learning from the design thinking workshop and its
benefits in the personal and professional development. It will provide reflection of
my learning and experiences from various activities from the workshop. In this
report, action plan will provide for the next six months to develop various skills and
reduce weaknesses.
About you
I had a good experience from the DT workshop as a student at the university.
I have to develop various skills in me to survive in the professional workplaces. In
addition, it will increase the strength me and it will reduce different weaknesses,
which makes me less confident. There are various things to know about skills
development from business point of view.
Personal Reflection on personal development
I learned about the innovation and its impacts on the mindset of people.
There are various things to learn from various types of various processes. It was a
good experience of my life in which I learnt about various things, such as reflection,
learning, and many others. DT tools and techniques are beneficial for the business
as well as personal development (Pastore, 2019).
In the first week, I learned about the reflection from various activities that
week. We have divided into groups of two people. It was an activity of discussion in
which I discoed about the mechanical and draw various things, which was based on

Learning 2
the mechanical engineering. In addition, I had created various figures, which has
used for the problem solving of real life. I had drawn wheel in the paper. I learned
that we could think differently by others, which is come from reflection. There are
various benefits of DT and its processes (Kertesz, 2019). I learned various things
from the first week of that workshop, which is used by me in the present time. I also
discussed about these things, which I never thought in my life, which are what is?
What if, what wows, and what works? All these things create a new thought in my
mind to do something different from different points of view. Besides, reflection is
necessary for a person (Pretorious & Ford, 2016).
In the second week of the workshop of DT, I learned about the difference
between assignments of DT for managers. It was different from others, as it has
provided various skills development programs in them, which makes huge impact
on the personal development as well as professional development. It was based on
the basic skills to learn about the real problem in a particular thing. In addition,
there are some basic skills can develop using DT and its processes. Innovation is not
an easy work. Therefore, it requires high knowledge about the particular thing and it
requires various steps to solving a problem. We have enjoyed an activity that week,
which was based on the designing of trolley cart for a supermarket. We can improve
our thoughts based on the various things, which are brainstorming, mind mapping,
value chain, and journey mapping. I learned that concepts could be developed
because of what if? Statement. I learned about the visualization in that week in
which I learned about the various concepts, which are rapid prototyping,
assumption testing, and many others. DT techniques can be used for the solving
various problems (Prototyping, 2019).
The third week was interesting from learning point of view. I learned about
two big concepts of learning, which are single-loop learning and double-loop
learning, which are useful in the learning. In addition, I learned about the various
things that are helpful in the learning process. I learnt that failure is also learning. I
learnt that single loop learning is gathering from our actions. However, double loop
learning comes from the collecting values from mismatches. It is beneficial and
helpful for career development. Therefore, DT tools should be used in the
development of various skills (Rahman, 2019).