Pip Decks Blog
Workshops
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Team-building activities to bring your team together
You mean, you're not going to get them to build a raft together?
March 08, 2023

Tips for running a great product design workshop
Elevate your craft: run great product design workshops every time.
March 02, 2023

A guide to co-facilitating
Co-facilitation can make or break a session. What's it gonna be?
December 08, 2022

How to gather workshop feedback, with example questions
Feedback is a powerful tool for improvement - if you get it right.
November 30, 2022

Imagination and play for strong team culture
Discover visualisation exercises to enhance your team dynamics.
November 15, 2022
Storytelling
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How to write a company profile
How to write an 'About Us' that says all the right things.
March 08, 2023

How to answer the ‘tell me about yourself’ interview question
Tell the story of you with conviction in your next interview.
December 02, 2022

Beyond the STARs - how to tell stellar stories in your next job interview
Tired of the STAR formula for answering interview questions? Give it a radical twist with these tactics.
November 28, 2022

Answer this question, become a better storyteller
Think visually if you want us to "see" what you mean.
November 28, 2022

Show & Tell (live session)
Learn to balance what you show people with what you tell them to keep the audience's attention firmly on you.
November 02, 2022
Leadership
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What is coaching leadership?
Coaching leaders prime their greatest asset - their people - to achieve their full potential.
February 13, 2023

What is strategic leadership?
Strategic leaders play business like chess. Fancy a game?
February 13, 2023

What is democratic leadership?
Learn the hallmarks and techniques of great democratic leadership.
February 13, 2023

What is autocratic leadership?
Autocratic leaders can make quickfire decisions. But what's lost in the process?
February 13, 2023

What is bureaucratic leadership?
A rigid hierarchy, absolute clarity about responsibilities and streamlined processes: sound like heaven, or hell?
February 13, 2023
Productivity
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The myth of multitasking
Multitasking is not a productivity hack... unless you use it in one very specific situation.
January 20, 2023

Discover the benefits of walking meetings
Get walking to boost creativity, productivity and wellbeing.
January 19, 2023

Benefits of microbreaks for productivity
Microbreak your way to better wellbeing and performance!
January 04, 2023

9 tips to stop procrastinating at work
This article might be the last thing you use to procrastinate... ever!
December 06, 2022

How to recover from burnout
Burnout sucks. Here are some simple steps to help you avoid - or recover from - it.
November 29, 2022
UX Design
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The secret to Pip Decks: a high rate of “insights per minute”
You could say the ipm (insights per minute) of a book is somewhere between 0.1 - 0.0001. With a blog post like this, the ipm might be closer to 0.2...
April 20, 2022

How to get started with User Story Mapping (UX Video Tutorial)
Tom shows us how to get started with User Story Mapping to make collaborating on user experiences intuitive and coherent. (A must watch!)
March 24, 2022

How to build and test great prototypes
Read how to set up your prototype for success, and avoid testing them like an amateur.
November 09, 2020

How FBI negotiation tactics help you give better feedback
It’s how we help each other improve. It grows our craft, our relationships and most importantly, humbles our ego. But, feedback isn’t always easy to receive. So how do you...
August 11, 2020

Why are we addicted to meetings?
Meetings rarely produce meaningful design work. And most, if not all, meetings are a waste of time. So why do we have them?
July 14, 2020
Creativity
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The creative process: Where method and magic meet
The word “process” has long been liable to give me a nasty psychic itch; neat step-by-step diagrams haunt my dreariest nightmares. We all know reality is messier than that, right?
April 11, 2022