When you’re watching things go down in flames or they’ve just collapsed in front of you, it can be hard to keep a broad perspective and focus on moving forward productively. This article by Miriam Persley at Leadership Learning Community (which references Beth Kanter from our post yesterday as inspiration) provides a twist on a design thinking framework to give us a practical list for working through failure, in a healthy way:
- Gain Empathy: Reflect
- Gain Empathy: Dig Deeper
- Reframe: Infer Insights
- Reframe: Set A Goal
- Creation: New Ideas
- Creation: Share New Ideas: Collective Leadership
- Iterate: Reflect Some More and Generate A Plan
- Build & Test: Build Your Solution
- Build & Test: Share & Collect Feedback
- Communication: Document Your Process
We love the application of design thinking to reflecting on failure. Key aspects of design thinking such as, iteration and testing assumptions can serve as a valuable framework to breakdown what’s at work during a failure state of mind.
