96 | COSERE PREPARATION i) Teams Working in teams enables the production of results that go well beyond any individual effort. Collaboration enables you to have different perspectives and strengths gathered around the table to solve complex challenges. In practice, team dynamics can fluctuate from being empowering to limiting. Here are a few tips for creating working teams for Design Thinking: • Team size: A team works best when its number of participants is limited to a small number of participants. Ideally, you should not have teams that have more than five members. A small-sized group enables us to easily coordinate schedules, smooth the decision-making process within the group, etc. • Diversity: a team that reflects diversity in terms of perspectives and contributions makes up for more innovative and unexpected solutions. • Roles: a team that has a clear understanding of each member’s responsibility based on everyone’s strengths is a team that will move forward. • Alone time: a team that works together produces amazing solutions, but sometimes for the team to progress, it is necessary to enable some solitary time for thinking, planning, and creating. Find a balance between both. Teams remain the same for the entire process. ii) Physical Space Dedicate a physical space for your design thinking process. It can range from just a wall to ideally an entire large room where furniture can be rearranged with whiteboards, free walls, and windows to pin sticky notes. This will allow your team to put up inspiring quotes and images that stem from their research and always remain immersed in their learning. IDEO suggests that to remain focused on the challenge and keep track of progress, it is helpful for your team to have shared visual reminders. Changing the space now and then in the process can be beneficial, as it can stimulate new ideas when the work becomes more challenging.
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