Design Mentorship Podcast: authentic stories and conversations with business

Martyna Tarnawska • 47 min

Aga Makowska • 52 min

20: Innovation in Business

On the importance of innovation, team involvement, organizational culture and the role of leaders. And about the value of simplicity, practicality, experimentation and building an environment that supports change.

Innovations

Business

Organizational culture

19: Competences worth developing in 2024

Designation of education, communication, problem identification and effective problem solving. And the value of combining knowledge, experimentation and creating a supportive environment.

Competences of the future

Dominka Pałasz i Joanna Rutkowska • 51 min

Kasia Szczesna • 33 min

18: Designing and Building Habits

How best to design and build habits? What influence does it have on our environment, our daily lives and our motivations? Also how long it takes to consistently stick with a new habit and how to use our strengths to facilitate the process.

Behavioral Design

Kasia Szczesna • 21 min

17: What is Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Design

What is behavioral economics and how can it be used in design? How does technology affect our daily decisions and well-being? And what is the role of ethics in our operations and those of our companies?

Behavioral economics

Behavioral Design

16: Designer's and Leader's challenges in the international environment

About new career roles and about designing in an international environment: challenges and good practices for everyone.

International cooperation

Marta Michałków i Weronika Rochacka Gagliardi • 63 min

15: From Marketing to Service Design

About becoming aware of your predisposition and the importance of supporting the mentor and the immediate environment, in the pursuit of the set goals. And about the power of hard work and passion in the process of disguise.

Szymon Kordylewicz • 69 min

Predisposition test

14: From Graphic Designer to branding agency owner

What does it pay for the endless process of education and skills improvement and how to implement and function in the environment of branding and design and what can be the differentiator of companies of the future.

Branding

Magdalena Kaziuk • Krzysztof Miotk • 39 min

13: Change of profession after a dozen years

About the path of disguise, the value of experience and competences gained in other industries and the importance of extraordinary motivation and commitment in the process of mentoring and change.

Justyna Kaźmierczak • 35 min

UX Research

12: From Architecture to Product and UX/UI Design

About quitting the “prestigious” profession of an architect, despite many years of study and a promising beginning of his career. About the road in which DM played the first violin.

Product Design

Anna Cenguunjav • Henryk Stawicki • 37 min

11: Mentoring Pivot

Why any process, and especially mentoring, can go through an unexpected pivot. How and why it is never too late for radical changes and why it is worth analyzing yourself.

Magdalena Fischer-Tobiasz • 36 min

10: Challenges of Mentoring

What mentoring challenges do Mentee and also Mentee face? How to choose goals, so that the whole process gives visible results and satisfaction? How to start your adventure with mentoring and what competencies to take care of?

Coaching

Kasia Szczesna • 26 min

9: Network & Career Booster - 6th edition of DM Program

All about our mentoring and the latest, 6th edition of the Design Mentorship program. What is it and how our mentoring works, what benefits it gives and for whom and at what point in their career it is a good solution.

Kasia Szczesna • 48 min

8: Why and how Design Mentorship was created

What Kasia and Design Mentorship's journey looked like, what challenges she faced and how she managed to achieve so much.

Weronika Rochacka Gagliardi • Magda Kochanowska • 42 min

Predisposition test

7: Design Mindset Detector™

What and for whom is the Design Mindset Detector™. At what point in your life and career do you do it? How is it different from other psychometric tests?

Predisposition test

Marta Maciejewska • Natalia Jażdżewska • 50 min

6: Mentoring as an educational process in the company

Mentoring, as a key educational process in the company. About the lean approach, known for its management philosophy and how it can help you implement an effective mentoring system. About methods of measuring and building a meaningful educational process and about the practice of “crossing”.

Madgalena Dymecka • Michał Butkiewicz • 32 min

5: From Pharmacist to Designer

On the process of disguise from a pharmacist to a designer. About the challenges and skills and experiences of the previous environment, useful in a new and different world of design from the previous one.

Małgorzata Sztejter • 39 min

UX Research

4: “Mentors are Boomers,” or once upon a time

Are mentors really just boomers? Doesn't mentoring also apply to people of different generations? And also about external mentors and mentoring between people who know each other.

Intergenerational cooperation

Ewa Kirsz • 39 min

3: “Mentoring is like coaching, right?” Stereotypes in Mentoring

What is and what is not mentoring and the stereotypes associated with it. And how it goes with coaching and more.

Coaching

Waldemar Olbryk • 37 min

2: Generational differences and cooperation and knowledge exchange

How do generational differences shape cooperation and knowledge exchange? What they are: reverse mentoring, intergenerational mentoring and mentern. What stereotypes accompany mentoring and what is the impact of the silver wave on the labor market.

Intergenerational cooperation

Michał Sadowski • 38 min

1: Talent development in the company? Do we really want to play with it?

Does it make sense to develop talent in the company? Is it worth supporting employees in developing their skills? Or maybe it doesn't need to be done at all?