Designing Your New Work Life January Professional Development Book Club

*The City of Detroit Professional Development Book Club is for City of Detroit employees Only*

Participants in the City of Detroit Professional Development Book club will participate in an interactive guided reading and group discussion that will gauge the learners understanding and comprehension of the selected text.

January Book of the Month: Designing Your New Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness and a New Freedom at Work by: Bill Burnet & Dave Evans

How to access book: Participants can purchase the book from their preferred book retailer or rent a copy from their local library.

Session Dates

• January 9th: Book Club Kick-Off
• January 23rd - Chapters 1-8
• January 30th - Chapters 9-14

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans successfully taught graduate and undergraduate students at Stanford University and readers of their best-selling book, Designing Your Life ("The prototype for a happy life." —Brian Lehrer, NPR), that designers don't analyze, worry, think, complain their way forward; they build their way forward. And now more than ever, we all need creative and adaptable tools to cope with the chaos caused by COVID-19.

In Designing Your New Work Life, Burnett and Evans show us how design thinking can transform our present job, and how it can improve our experience of work in times of disruption. All disruption is personal, write Burnett and Evans, as with the life-altering global pandemic we are living through now. Designing Your New Work Life makes clear that disruption is the new normal, that it is here to stay and that it is accelerating. And in the book's new chapters, Burnett and Evans show us step by step, how to design our way through disruption and how to stay ahead of it—and thrive.

Burnett and Evans's Disruption Design offers us a radical new concept that makes use of the designer mindsets: Curiosity, Reframing, Radical collaboration, Awareness, Bias to action, Storytelling, to find our way through these unchartered times.

In Designing Your New Work Life, Burnett and Evans show us, with tools, tips, and design ideas, how we can make new possibilities available even when our lives have been disrupted (be it globally, regionally, or personally), giving us the tools to enjoy the present moment and allowing us to begin to prototype our possible future.

Participants must:

• Attend the entire 1-hour session
• Register, arrive on time, and validate attendance
• Participate in the group discussion
• Read the selected text before each session.

Registration is required to validate attendance - Please plan for possible technical difficulties and arrive atleast10 minutes early to the Zoom Meeting: https://cityofdetroit.zoom.us/j/87276160724

Host or Publisher City of Detroit - Talent Development and Performance Management