Design Management: Create, Develop, and Lead Effective Design Teams

Book Description

Designers are more in-demand than ever, and companies all over the world are creating new leadership roles to manage them. With only a few select institutions teaching effective design management skills, self-taught design managers are on the rise and resources are needed to guide them. This book will help you hone your leadership skills and magnify your team’s potential.

Eager designers will learn the behavioral abilities required to lead and manage impactful and efficient teams using a systemic, context-agnostic, and therefore repeatable approach. While effective design management is vital in these times of complexity and fast change in organizations, the available literature on design management is insufficient, predominately informative, and unfortunately, not actionable. This book fills that gap by illuminating the soft skills you need to lead your team to success.

You’ll gain confidence about how to optimize meetings, run successful kickoffs, manage yourself, and how to best approach and frame your working environment. Whether you are a designer looking to lead, or a member of an organization looking for guidance on how to better incorporate design, this book belongs on your shelf. Design Management is here to assist you in the long haul.

What You’ll Learn

• Comprehend the underlying social and psychological dynamics of leadership and management
• Cultivate the behavioral elements of a design manager
• Understand the building blocks of a design leader
• Establish your core practices and create a self-development program
• Develop and project healthy and sustainable influence
• Build trust, create psychological safety, and fulfill the social needs of high-performing teams
• Coach individuals and groups to unlock creativity and nurture creative collaboration
• Optimize in-person and remote design operations

Who This Book Is For

Everyone who desires to expand and deepen their knowledge of design leadership and management, comprehending the social and psychological underpinning elements of this discipline. Aspiring or recently appointed design leaders and managers who necessitate a practical education in this field and individuals already in charge of a group who aspire to evolve their understanding to advance their career toward a Head of Design or Chief Design Officer role.

中文：

书名：设计管理：创建、开发和领导高效的设计团队

设计师比以往任何时候都更受欢迎，世界各地的公司都在创造新的领导角色来管理他们。由于只有几个精选的机构教授有效的设计管理技能，自学成才的设计经理正在崛起，需要资源来指导他们。这本书将帮助你磨练你的领导技能，放大你的团队的潜力。

热切的设计师将学习使用一种系统的、与环境无关的、因此可重复的方法来领导和管理有影响力的高效团队所需的行为能力。虽然有效的设计管理在组织中的复杂性和快速变化的时代是至关重要的，但关于设计管理的现有文献不足，主要是信息性的，不幸的是，没有可操作性。这本书通过阐明带领团队走向成功所需的软技能来填补这一空白。

你将获得关于如何优化会议、成功启动、管理自己以及如何以最佳方式处理和构建工作环境的信心。无论您是希望成为领导者的设计师，还是正在寻找如何更好地融入设计的指导的组织成员，这本书都属于您的书架。设计管理中心将长期为您提供帮助。

你会学到什么？

• 理解领导和管理中潜在的社会和心理动态
• 培养设计经理的行为元素
• 了解设计领导者的基本要素
• 建立您的核心实践并创建自我发展计划
• Develop and project healthy and sustainable influence
• 建立信任，创造心理安全，满足高绩效团队的社会需求
• 指导个人和团队释放创造力并培养创造性协作
• 优化面对面和远程设计操作

这本书是为谁写的

希望拓展和深化设计领导力和管理知识的每一个人，理解这门学科的社会和心理基础要素。有抱负的或最近任命的设计领导者和经理，需要在该领域进行实践教育的人，以及已经在团队中负责的个人，他们渴望发展他们的理解，以推动他们的职业生涯向设计主管或首席设计官的角色迈进。