We’re excited to announce that the Design Management Institute (DMI) has asked us to deliver a webinar on April 11th as part of their long-standing Design Leadership Speaker Series, sponsored by Microsoft. The Series “features leading thinkers in design and design management addressing topics of key importance, brought to you through Microsoft Live Meeting” (more at dmi.org).

Our session will be based on our recent article “Calibrate Before You Collaborate: 5 Questions That Guide Group Work” which DMI and Wiley/Blackwell published in February. If you subscribe to the DMI Review it’s on page 14. Or you can get it from their website (PDF here). Both the article and the session target teams starting a new project, product, or fiscal cycle. We explore a process for producing a ‘Calibration Brief” that details how a team will work together, much like a creative brief describes what will be done.

You can register for the webinar on the DMI website (link here), and we look forward to connecting with everyone April 11th.

In the mean time, if you’ve found other ways to set the stage for collaboration in your own teams, let us know using the comments section below.