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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c36807b4-66f8-f483-4f06-944f2569afc2"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Put people in the right situation and they can throw out silly ideas without having to worry about being ridiculed by their peers.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c36807b4-66f8-f483-4f06-944f2569afc2"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This can rekindle anyone’s confidence by the end of the design thinking course. Some people may start out timid, but if the course is tailored to each group correctly, each person will be highly engaged by the end.</span></span></li>

<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c36807b4-66f8-f483-4f06-944f2569afc2"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It may be difficult to help each individual feel comfortable in a room of people from different fields of expertise, but it is important to have a diversity of disciplines in one room. It is also important to keep them all on the same track.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c36807b4-66f8-f483-4f06-944f2569afc2"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The goal is to make them work together, instead of arguing their perspectives. A good start to this is by making people pay attention.</span></span></li>

<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c36807b4-66f8-f483-4f06-944f2569afc2"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have laptops put away, setup the tables in a circle, or whatever it may take to engage the students. Throughout the design thinking course, the students will begin to understand how design thinking applies to each and everyone in the room.</span></span></li><li><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Walk participants through the basic steps of design thinking (see graphic above) and encourage them to tackle a problem together, either in small groups or as a whole. It is important to focus on something that is an important issue, but is not divisive in nature and can promote collaboration to create a solution.</span></li>

<ul style="margin-left: 40px;"><li><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Walk participants through the basic steps of design thinking (see graphic above) and encourage them to tackle a problem together, either in small groups or as a whole. It is important to focus on something that is an important issue, but is not divisive in nature and can promote collaboration to create a solution.</span></li></ul> &lt;/div>&gt;