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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

257: Innovating through Empathetic Collaboration with Turi McKinley

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Turi McKinley talks intuitive design thinking as an alternative approach to problem solving.


You’ll Learn:

1) The importance of human empathy in problem solving

2) Three keys to apply the design thinking process in your organization

3) Pro-tips for getting brilliant ideas flowing when you collaborate


About Turi 

Turi McKinley is the Executive Director of Org Activation at frog design. Turi’s 15+ years in design encompasses design research, interaction and service design, and currently focuses on driving change within innovative teams and organizations. Turi leads frog’s capability building and process design practice across frog’s global studios, and with frog’s clients. With clients, she had led transformation efforts for GE as they developed a user centered software capability; for health insurance companies seeking to develop new customer relationships; and CPG firms developing ways of working faster and more iteratively.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis. Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 257 with

0:25.2

Turi McKinley. Turi has a very creative brain and has worked on some

0:30.4

really cool projects and she shares her top takeaways when it comes to doing

0:34.8

problem solving design thinking all the better so you'll learn one the importance of

0:38.8

human empathy and problem solving two three keys to apply the design thinking process in your

0:45.0

organization, and three pro tips for getting brilliant ideas flowing when you

0:49.8

collaborate. So if you'd like to check out the show notes, the transcript, or the links to items that we've referenced.

0:55.0

You find that over at awesome at your job.com slash F two five seven.

0:59.0

And while you're at all your job dot com, I encourage you to check out some of our good stuff. One such good thing I'd point

1:04.9

you to is the 10 days to winning at work email course. So this is a series of

1:09.4

actionable bite-sized nuggets from my enhanced thinking collaboration training programs that

1:14.6

historically have slashed 86 minutes of waste out of the work week per person so

1:19.7

that really can add up for a more fun, strategic thinking time or just getting home early,

1:24.6

kind of whatever you'd like to do with less waste in your work life.

1:28.8

So that's over to also to make your job.com.

1:31.0

Now here's Toury Story.

1:32.4

Toury McKinley is the Executive Director of Oregon at Frog Design.

1:36.0

Toury's 15 years experience in design and compass design research, interaction, and service design,

1:43.0

and currently focuses on driving change within innovative teams and organizations.

1:48.0

Touri leads Frogs capability building and process design practice across Frogs global studios and with Frogs clients.

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