with Prof. Matthias Ehrhardt and Team

THE DESIGNING

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DESIGN TH INKING FOR LEADERSHIP, LEARNING, AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT

NEXT DATES

Singapore Sept. 28 -30, 2020

San Francisco Oct. 14 -16, 2020

Munich Nov. 2-4, 2020

Boston Nov. 16 -18, 2020

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ALL YOU NEED TO LEARN

Join our Designing Talent Certification Program!

In my years as an entrepreneur and professor, I have worked with countless leaders, companies, and teams. Although their goals and aspirations may be starkly different, they have all had the same experience: It takes a lot to be successful, but if you don't get the best out of your people – you won't succeed.

In other words: learning and helping others learn have become the most important skills in the 21st century. This also holds true for unlearning and relearning things like knowledge, skills, behavior, or even attitudes.

However, before we want our people to learn anything new or embrace change, we have to enable them to do so. Designing Talent will do just that. It will help you and your people become better at becoming better.

Designing Talent is a framework we have crafted after years of research and testing. It makes the ingenuity of Design Thinking applicable for leadership and talent development and will help you unleash the full innovation and learning potential of your people.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Designing Talent Certification Program!

Prof. Matthias Ehrhardt

WELCOME

» LEARNING AND HELPING OTHERS LEARN HAVE BECOME THE MOST IMPORTANT SKILLS IN THE 21st CENTURY.«

Prof. Matthias Ehrhardt

Certification

Structure

Pre-work

Assessments, self-study, prep exercise

Post-work*

Application, evaluation, learning summary

*required for all participants who want to be certified as Designing Talent Coaches

The Workshop

Day oneTalent development and leadership framework

Introduction

Foundations of coaching

Using Design Thinking for talent development

Designing Talent approach and framework

The ACE process

Using assessments for learning and talent development

Working with your talent challenge

Day twoDevelopmental skills, tools, and use cases

Adult learning and performance

Feedback culture and "Talent Talks"

Listening, questioning, and feedback

Visualization for talent development

Storytelling

Working with your talent challenge

Day threePutting it all together

Turning talent into performance

Talent development as a corporate competency

Implementing best practices in talent development

Talent challenge: results and reflection

Wrap-up: what you need to succeed

Bottom line: making it work

The Designing Talent Certification Program is for

• executives who want to hone their learning and leadership skills, use new coaching tools and assessments for daily challenges and team issues, or want to rethink their current talent development strategy

• HR professionals who want to establish a high-growth problem-solving and performance culture, i.e. an entrepreneurial mindset

• coaches, consultants, and mentors who want to add a new and highly effective talent development framework to their existing services and help their clients and people solve internal and external challenges

• start-ups, fast growing companies, family businesses, and international corporations that face diverse challenges, adjusting to the speed of transition

In our certification program, we will show you how to use Design Thinking and other innovation methods to bring the best out of your people. Design Thinking is used by companies around the globe as a proven method for ongoing performance improvement and innovation.

What is the need ?

Current studies show:

79 % of today's employees feel they're not managed in a motivating way.

42 % say they are likely to leave because they are not learning fast enough.

94 % of all companies report that "agility and learning" are critical to their company's success.Yet, only 6% say they are highly agile today.

Format The certification program is delivered in a 3-day seminar with additional pre- and post-work.

RequirementsTo attend the certification program, we recommend at least five years of coaching, mentoring, HR, or leadership experience.

Dates and feesSingapore, Sept. 28-30, 2020, USD 4,800 San Francisco, Oct. 14 -16, 2020, USD 4,800 Munich, Nov. 2-4, 2020, EUR 4,200 (+ VAT)Boston, Nov. 16 -18, 2020, USD 4,800

Scholarships available.

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Help your organizations and clients bring out the best in their most valuable asset: their people.

Designing Talent is an effective framework for leader- ship, talent development, learning, and because it emphasizes both creativity and execution. But it goes beyond individual application – Designing Talent can be scaled to an organizational level, helping leaders achieve their goals in a holistic way.

The Designing Talent Certification Program is for you, if you want to

• help your organizations and clients acquire the most important skill in the 21st century: learning and helping others learn• apply the latest science in learning to your one-on-one and team coaching sessions• get acquainted with ACE: a simple, yet pro found process for efficient problem-solving and talent development• learn how to use visual tools, brainstorming templates, and team exercises to jumpstart engagement• refresh and rethink leadership: how do we become better leaders? The leader as coach, mentor, teacher – when and how does it work?• learning is a team sport: how to build effective learning partnerships• become better at becoming better: because this, after all, is your only competitive advantage• get a top-notch certification and accelerate your career

To effectively learn you need three things: a process, insights, and competencies. Designing Talent comes with all three.

Address and AssessName and understand the learning opportunities and challenges ("pain points") as accurately as possible.

Whatever you want your people, teams, and organizations to learn, it is crucial that you first give them the skills, tools, and knowledge to be able to learn. Designing Talent does just that. It serves as a foundation of learning and growth – no matter in which area you want to improve.

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Create andChooseBrainstorm and create ideas to solve the challenge. Choose the best ideas and start testing them.

Execute and EvaluatePut ideas to action. Find out what works best and tweak the solutions. Monitor the progress.

The ACE Process

The Designing Talent Learning and Growth Model

Process before content: The ACE process

Especially in fast-changing times like these, we often don't know how to approach and find answers to individual, team, or company challenges. What's needed is: a simple, yet reliable process for finding the best solution in any context. That is why we created ACE. ACE is a design thinking-based process with two levels. The ACE process is the key to effective problem-solving, performance improvement, and learning.

Identify and ACE your challenges

To learn the Designing Talent approach and apply the ACE process, you are invited to take an assess-ment (Leadership Strengths Learning Indicator) prior to the workshop. This will help you identify your learning opportunities and challenges. Over the course of the program, you will work on your chal- lenge and receive feedback from facilitators and peers.

YOUR BENEF I TS

All you need to learn

Leadership Skills

MotivationConflict Resolution

Change

Communication Talent Retention

Your challenge

Trust

Digital Success

Meet Matthias, Founder of Designing Talent

PROF. M AT TH IAS EHRHARDT

Professor Matthias Ehrhardt has extensive experi- ence in building up, investing in, restructuring, and growing companies in diverse industries such as me-dia, training, manufacturing, and high tech. Today, he is engaged in businesses and start-ups that focus on learning and talent development. In addition, he has served as an executive coach and facilitator for talent development, entrepreneurship, and lead- ership at various universities and companies for 20 years. He has worked with startups, VC and pri- vate equity firms, family businesses, leading business schools, and global corporations.

Learning and talent development have always been a passion of his. Matthias has a master of adminis- tration studies (M.A.S.), a master in media psycho-logy (M.A.), a PhD in law (Dr. iur.), and another

PhD in art history (Dr. phil.) from the University of Munich. He is an alumnus of IESE Business School's AMP, Columbia Business School's CIBE, and Harvard Business School's Owners and Presidents Manage-ment Program (OPM). Matthias has attended IESE's International Faculty Program (IFP), the Columbia Coaching Certification Program (ECI/ACI), and is a founding fellow of the Institute of Coaching (ICPA) at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School affiliate.

Matthias holds numerous certifications in talent development, coaching, and training (CPLP, HOGAN, Learning Agility, Emotional Intelligence, ATD Master Trainer, TKI, MBTI, etc.). He is engaged in training and supervising other executive coaches and facili- tators and regularly speaks at conferences on leader- ship, talent development, and coaching.

Why Designing Talent ?

Focus on learningDesigning Talent goes deeper than many leadership programs. It focuses on the most important leadership skill: learning and helping others learn. Hands-onYou will receive the "Designing Talent Toolbox", which includes plenty of tools, templates, assessments, evaluations, and prompts for direct use in your organi-zation.

CustomizedYou will be able to show your people or clients howto effectively solve problems and develop themselves and others by using the ACE process, essential in-sights, and key developmental skills.

EngagingMuch has been written about getting individuals and teams involved in idea creation. You will be able to use methods from Designing Talent to ignite creative brainstorming, think outside the box, and find the best solutions for your challenges.

Ongoing Everything we know about effective learning tells usthat it has to be permanent and forward oriented.That is what Designing Talent is about. We will show you how to make room for ongoing dialogue, in- volvement, and feedback. We call this space "Talent Talks."

State-of-the-artWe know the latest techniques and talent develop-ment practices. You will learn them in our programand turn into an expert user.

SustainableTalent comes, talent goes. You will help your organi- zation develop a corporate core competency to bring out the very best in their teams.

Bottom LineWith your learnings from the Designing Talent Certifi-cation Program, you will help your organization and clients to develop their talent and fix their workplace problems with engagement, commitment, and fun.

Matthias' special back- ground in Design Thinking and Talent Development

• Master's in Media Psychology (M.A.)• Ph.D. in Art History (specialization: leadership representation in art)• Co-founded and led a design and branding agency for over 15 years• Years of research and work in Design Thinking• Founder and director of the AUTORIS Institute for Talent Development

» I'VE BEEN THROUGH MANY LEADERSHIP PRO-GRAMS. THE HIGHEST COMPLIMENT THAT I CAN GIVE TO DESIGNING TALENT IS THAT IT'S TRULY ACTIONABLE. YOU LEAVE WITH A TOOLBOX OF MATERIALS AND SKILLS THAT YOU CAN PUT INTO PRACTICE THE NEXT DAY! PLUS THE FRAMEWORK WORKS FOR EVERY TYPE OF LEARNER. I THINK THAT'S WHY MY TEAM AND CLIENTS LOVE IT.«

Heidi Erdmann-Sullivan, CEO, Erdmann Marketing Group

»A MODERN WORKPLACE REQUIRES A MODERN APPROACH TO TALENT AND LIFELONG LEARNING. THE DESIGNING TALENT PROGRAM AND THE MANY PRACTICAL TOOLS IT PROVIDED HELPED ME IMPLEMENT THIS IN MY COMPANY.«

Felix Eichler, Cofounder and Managing Director, Userlane

» MATTHIAS' PROGRAMS ALWAYS GET EXCELLENT FEEDBACK FROM PARTICIPANTS: AN AMAZING COMBINATION OF ACADEM- IC EXCELLENCE AND REAL- LIFE BUSINESS APPLICATION. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE DESIGNING TALENT CERTIFICATION TO ALL STARTUPS.«

Iskender Dirik, Managing Director/General Manager Samsung NEXT Europe

The Designing Talent Framework is applied in global corporations, high-growth companies, start-ups, accelerators, leading business schools, and family businesses. Here's what Designing Talent leaders, coaches, and mentors say:

FEEDBACK AND IMPRESS IONS

»SIMPLY THE BEST! MATTHIAS AND HIS TEAM HAVE UNCANNY KNOWLEDGE TO HELP INDIVIDUALS REACH THEIR UTMOST POTENTIAL AS LEADERS.«

Colin D. Weekes, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital

»THE DESIGNING TALENT CERTIFICATION IS A MUST-HAVE FOR ANYONE RESPON-SIBLE FOR MODERN LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS. THE NEW METHODS AND TOOLS HAVE ENABLED ME TO HAVE A GREAT IMPACT ON OUR COLLEAGUES' INDIVIDUAL LEARNING JOURNEYS.«

Sarah Hoffmann, Chief People Officer, Brainwave Hub

»SINCE OUR TEAM LEADS ATTENDED THE DESIGNING TALENT PROGRAM, THIS FRAMEWORK HAS SPREAD THROUGH THE BLINKIST OFFICE QUICKLY: I SEE PEOPLE STANDING IN FRONT OF WHITEBOARDS TOGETHER "ACEING" CHALLENGES, OR LISTENING TO COLLEAGUES EXPLAINING THEIR "WHEEL OF WHY". INSPIRING, IN-SIGHTFUL, ACTIONABLE – I CAN HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS PROGRAM TO ANYONE WORKING WITH PEOPLE.«

Anna-Lisa Obermann, Head of People, Blinkist

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Designing Talent Inc.

Cambridge Innovation CenterOne Broadway, 14th fl.Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

Germany

Designing Talent GmbH

Nordendstrasse 580799 Munich, Germany

For more information and to apply please visit our website www.designingtalent.com

Or contact Verena Lauffsverena@designingtalent.com

The Designing Talent Framework has been developed by the AUTORIS Institute for Talent Development. www.autoris.com. © DESIGNING TALENT 2020. All rights reserved. AUTORIS®, Designing Talent®, The ACE Process®, and, The Designing Talent Certification Program® are registered trademarks.

Around the world, start-ups, VC and PE firms, family businesses, and large corporations use Designing Talent to help their people grow. Elite coaches, consultants, and mentors apply our tools, assessments, and insights with their clients. And top business schools offer our programs to enhance their leadership curriculum. Here are some of the organizations in which people are Designing Talent:

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