Reflective Report on Design Thinking for Managers

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Reflective Report
Design it for managers
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6/4/2019

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Personal Development...............................................................................................................2
Knowledge Development...........................................................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
Action Plan.................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
This reflective report is based on integrating reflective blogs written throughout the
whole term. With this reflective report, I am going to present a critical self-analysis and
reflection of my learning based on experiencing Design Thinking (DT) activities within this
unit. While doing so, I will majorly consider my personal development and professional
development on the basis of my knowledge of DT topics. In general, reflection is a way to
learn by self-doings and lessons which ultimately escalate an individual to integrating the
whole learning for their lifetime (Bassos, 2016). Here, I am reflecting on my DT workshop so
that I can become a better manager in future workplaces.
To do so, the famous reflective model given by Gibb’s will be utilized to illustrate the
reflective practice for professional development (Gibbs, 2016). In this context, there are six
major steps in a Gibbs’ reflective framework such as description, feelings, evaluation,
analysis, conclusion, action plan. While using this reflective model, I am going to first
describe the whole DT workshop activities and concepts, then express my feelings following
evaluating as well as analyzing DT workshop. Furthermore, on the basis of all four steps, I
will conclude the learning and lessons from each topic in the context of personal and
professional career development (Becker, Kugeler, & Rosemann, 2013). Finally, I will
generate a future action plan of major events and activities which I can undertake across the
upcoming 6 months in order to acquire skills, knowledge, and behaviors being requiring
development.
Personal Development
After describing the key concepts, activities, and contents of all 9 workshops I am
going to express my feelings throughout the whole DT workshop. In this context, I want to
narrate my feelings generated all across the DT workshop as I want to realize the evolved
changes into my own personality. From the perspective of future career endeavors this
section of reflecting feelings will be highly useful for me. In this context, while I was writing
blog 1, I realized that research is a concrete study of any vast subject for finding or gaining a
new understanding about info as well as systematic information interpretation and collection
for fulfilling a clear purpose. I felt the importance of group-work as I had to perform almost
all of the assessments of the DT workshop in teams. My evolved opinion is suggesting that

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within design-led research all the participants are not utilized for data collection but they are
creators as well. Being a data collector during research I felt that collector of the data is more
concerned about the emotions, feelings, and behavior of the participants. I also realized that
past experiences and learning matter a lot as my prior experiences of academic research made
me sound knowledgeable on that topic. I also felt a bond with the interviewers during the
design-led research module (Hobcraft, 2018).
Moreover, when I was writing blog 2, I strongly felt the beginner’s mind-set. I felt
that with the appropriate mind-set as well as giving enough time to the procedure, I and any
individual can easily execute DT within the professional and personal scenario. When I was
learning the DT module, I realized that ‘finding things out’ is a major element within the DT
module. I felt that I am a curious personality who is having a major curiosity of finding things
out over any topic. In this context, my feelings evolved during the DT workshop suggest that
children carry the most curious of all the things and hence asking queries like children always
add into growing a beginner’s mind-set (Lewis, 2015). Apart from this, during an activity of
solving puzzles, I felt the importance of analytical skills for any person. When I felt the
difficulty in solving that puzzle then I realized that active involvement is necessary to solve
any difficult or easy task. The reason behind why I could not solve that puzzle was I was not
reading the task instructions carefully and my whole attention was on the puzzle which was
showing in front of me. In addition to that, I felt adventurous while attending brainstorming
activity as my tutor instructed to be weird, absurd, stupid, wild, idiotic and foolish to explain
the concept of brainstorming (Zott & Amit, 2010). In another activity which was conducted
in groups and hence provided various products, I felt the importance of team and teamwork.
In this activity, we had to form a novel product or service by combining two individual items.
In this way, based on (Hirsch & McKenna, 2010), my feelings related to DT
workshop are suggesting that active participation into this design thinking module made me
feel that I possess so many qualities and attributes which were realized while attending the
whole unit. Moreover, I felt creative, active participant, a good communicator, and a curious
personality. In this way, feelings occurred during DT workshop were mixed but highly useful
to realize my own strengths as well as weaknesses to create future opportunities considerably
(Brooks & Dunn, 2011).
In this context, I am going to narrate on what else I could make of the situations raised
into DT workshop unit. In this way, this analysis of the whole DT workshop module will