Co-creating a leadership programme

Client

Role

Lenth

Location

Facilitator of co-creation and innovation processes

10 months >>

Barcelona & Remote

Context

Prat Educació commissioned Teamlabs/ - a laboratory that creates and offers radical learning experiences for young people - the co-creation of a Leadership Module as part of the Marketing and Public Relations Degree.

As part of Teamlabs team, composed by three members, my role was to provide strategic advise, facilitate co-creation sessions and document all the learnings and results part of the process.


Process

The process began with the birth of The Spreaders, the core group of teachers that were going to be responsible of co-creating the leadership module and help Prat in transforming the culture of the center towards innovation and creativity.

To facilitate the co-creation process, Teamlabs/ designed the intervention in four main iterations, while, at the same time, each iteration was divided in four main sessions.

  1. Design research session to discover the students needs (divergence)

  2. Challenge definition (convergence) and prototype design

  3. Test with students and collection of insights

  4. Learning (postmotorola: what worked - what did not work - what we have learned - what will we do better next time)

Outcome

Thanks to this project:

  • A core group of Prat teachers have acquired a set of skills to co-create and design better learning experiences with the students;

  • Experience-based learning becomes the new normal in the center;

  • Students have been encouraged to have an entrepreneurial role, working through projects;

  • Teachers adopt an experience-based learning facilitator role, with a strong component of knowledge generation and management.

  • Prat Educació has transformed its culture and pedagogic approach towards innovation and creativity.

Outputs

Leadership module

Comprehensive and experiential module about leadership to be tested in 2020-2021. This module is based on the ten-month co-creation process between Prat's Spreaders and Teamlabs/. It contains the rational and the module framework.

Playbook: How to design a learning experience

This playbook supports the implementation process of the Leadership Module. It is a manual to understand the conceptual framework and introduces the users to the process of creating team learning experiences and innovation. It collects Teamlabs/ the theories and elements and approach adapted to the experience with Prat Educació.

Playbook: Leadership

A collection of resources to improve Prat's teachers understanding about leadership. The playbook contains a comprehensive list of key books, articles and other resources such us videos and presentations.

The playbook has been organized in three key leadership dimensions, which were identified by Prat teachers during the prototypes with the students: (01) self-leadership; (02) lead-others/teams; (03) lead-organizations

Communication and documentation tools

Web to share the process and learnings with the school and stakeholders

Shared-folder that collects all the documents used during the iterations: from literature recommendations and key resources, to templates, tools and methods to conduct the sessions

Spreaders site.

Shared folder