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Another danger of work silos is that it helps create distrust among leadership. One of the most important ways that I’ve found to combat that is through transparency. While I’ve found that employees don’t need, nor desire, to know everything going on in a company, they should still be aware when things are changing that affect them. Transparency builds trust and trust builds relationships. 

Going forward, I would like to take with me, the essence of effective collaboration. The exchange of ideas between two departments, that could have been previously been at odds, is priceless. I would like to continue to use the tools that I have discovered for collaboration, to engage teammates and make a more positive work environment.

Simplicity - The world seems complex. The idea of design can seem daunting. But if you strip back what you want to accomplish, strengthen what you believe in and streamline your vision - you can simplify the end input. The change you wish to seek can be as kind, or as daunting as you visualize it. 

The idea that design leadership means to hold responsibility in what you are putting out into the world. That each product, structure and value behind what you create can effect hundreds and thousands of people. 

I now understand why they are a gift because it can really help you take a huge step in the right direction for your project when you may be feeling unclear or confused about possible solutions. When we learned about parameters I had a “breakthrough” in my thought process and it made me feel much more confident in my design leadership project. 

Ethnographic Research had a positive impact on me as a designer and as I take my career forward in Design Leadership, I will remember its usefulness!

Regularly posting allowed me to focus more on the content and not stress about the details that may not matter as much to readers.