Prototype - Design Thinking Venture Lab
- 1. How to better fill the gaps (in skills and expectations) between school and the workplace?
- 2. Selected ideas (Last week) Most practical idea • In-class discussions and development of skills needed for all jobs (e.g.: communication, relationship, computing) Most disruptive idea • In-job activities in the workplace before hiring (for both employee and recruiter knowing better each other) My favorite idea • Job rotation: working in 3 different areas of interest before hiring someone
- 3. Considerations The ideas are not easily prototyped, since many different areas in a company and in a school must be involved For this reason, I put into practice the most practical idea: Discussions at school about the skills needed for all jobs for future development
- 4. Prototype Facilitator leading a discussion about what students think are important skills in the workplace A discussion about how to develop them In the end, an action plan describing which attitudes should be taken in order to develop those skills Students were asked to take an article about important skills in the workplace Facilitator handed out a questionnaire for making it easier for students to identify their strenghts and weaknesses There was a discussion about how applying the ideas in the articles on their on lifes In the end, facilitator showed how some people develop those skills Both prototypes were realized after-class in a High School 8 students aged 13-17 were organized in a circle and there was a facilitator Prototype 1 Prototype 2
- 5. Feedback Good! A clear plan of action Defined goals Students discussed more about how to set goals and activities Not so good... Less individualised analysis Less involvement in the beginning Good Previous preparation More involvement Discussions about sources of research! Better identification of their own gaps and strenghts Not so good... Not planning for the future No plan of action for “afterwards” Prototype 1 Prototype 2 Results Both ideas should be combined in order to have the best results: involvement, preparation for the discussion, identification of their needs and how to develop them, setting goals. It was interesting to realize how different the outcomes were in each session! They were really complementar.