October 1, 2009 // 6 comments
What do attendees think of Bill's presentation? We're curious to hear your feedback.
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Tell us what you liked, where you feel we can improve and what you'd like to see from Triad Design Leadershop in the future.
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We're curious to hear about what our participants thought about the first workshop.
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From Downtown Greensboro
Follow Market Street east to the NC A&T campus. The first intersection at the campus is Market and Dudley Streets (traffic light); turn left on Dudley Street. Go to the first stoplight (Bluford Street) and turn right. Continue to Nocho Street and turn right. Harrison Auditorium will be on left. The parking lot is next to Harrison.
From Winston-Salem (Airport)
Travel on I-40 East to Greensboro. Once within the city limits, continue on I-40 east to Exit #127 (Highway 29 North, Reidsville Exit). Take Exit 127 onto HWY 29 North. Remain on HWY 29 North for approx. four miles. Take the West Market Street/NC A&T University Exit. Once you exit, yield to the right on Market Street at the intersection. Go to the third stoplight (at Dudley Street) and turn right. Go to the first stoplight (Bluford Street) and turn right. Continue to Nocho Street and turn right. Harrison Auditorium will be on the left. The parking lot is next to Harrison.
From Charlotte
On I-85 North into Greensboro (be careful, the new bypass will take you to Durham) take the US 29 N exit. Remain on HWY 29 North for approx. four miles. Take the West Market Street/NC A&T University Exit. Once you exit, yield to the right on Market Street at the intersection. Go to the third stoplight (Dudley Street) and turn right. Go to the first stoplight (Bluford Street) turn right. Continue to Nocho Street and turn right. Harrison auditorium will be on the left. The parking lot is next to Harrison.
From Reidsville
Follow Highway 29 South into the city of Greensboro. Once in Greensboro, continue to follow 29 South for approximately six miles to the Sullivan St. Exit, which is Lutheran St. At the second stoplight (Sullivan Street) turn left. Go to the first stoplight (Dudley Street) turn left. Continue to the first stoplight (Bluford Street) turn left. Follow Bluford Street to Nocho Street and turn right. Harrison Auditorium will be on the left. The parking lot is next to Harrison.
From Durham
Follow I-85 South to NC6 (Lee Street, Exit 41). Turn right on Lee Street toward Greensboro. Continue to Benbow Road; turn right on Benbow. Follow Benbow to Market Street (approximately two blocks), and turn left on Market (at the light). Go to the third stoplight (at Dudley Street) and turn right. Go to the first stoplight (Bluford Street) and turn right. Continue to Nocho Street and turn right. Harrison Auditorium is on the left. The parking lot is next to Harrison.
Keynote Parking
Participants may park in the parking lot next to Harrison Auditorium and in Williams Cafeteria.
Workshop Parking
Participants may park in the Obermeyer Parking Deck (corner of Obermeyer & Bluford Street). A shuttle bus will run every 15 minutes.
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6 Responses to "Bill Grant Keynote"
Linda Stansbury
Oct 2, 2009 3:52pm
A great afternoon of creative thinking. Bill Grant offered up his formula for developing a “strategic roadmap.” It’s an interesting challenge to concept a new way, with a team of strangers. A great learning tool, and a stimulating process.
Elliot Strunk
Oct 2, 2009 5:54pm
Linda,
Glad you enjoyed participating in the workshop.
Elliot
Kevin Marion
Oct 8, 2009 5:31pm
Again, a great keynote… like David, Bill seems to simply have the Midas touch when dealing with the clients he presented to us. His workshop was good, but maybe too similar to David’s in that we were fiddling with an ordinary object, trying to make it something else. Bill Moser brought up this point at the end of our workshop and I look forward to the next one being tailored specifically to our regional “pain point”. From Bill Grant I would have liked to see the workshop focus on some or all of his “10 Small Ideas w/ Big Results”. Please don’t take this the wrong way… I think I would have had the same mild criticism of David if his workshop had followed Bill’s. Our discussion in the Grant follow up was excellent. A lot of free flowing ideas bouncing off of each other culminating in the possibility of a local design fair of some sort. The Leadershop is progressing very nicely!
Elliot Strunk
Oct 9, 2009 9:27am
Kevin,
Thanks for your comments. Great to keep in mind for Claudia’s sessions.
Elliot
Martin Buchanan
Oct 13, 2009 12:42pm
Bill Grant obviously knows design, and he knows about expanding his company beyond the traditional graphic design territory mined by so many. He is in the enviable position of being hired for his thinking, and getting paid for his solutions to business problems. Plus, he’s a nice guy and I enjoyed his workshop.
What I am wondering is, and forgive me for missing the follow-up meeting, how do we learn to translate this “design thinking” into marketable skills in our respective businesses?
At Trone, we do a lot of brainstorming already. We know about collaboration, and Bill’s workshop exercise felt a lot like a tough day at the office to me, coming up with creative solutions to a business problem, even if it was for a fictional product idea. I would have hoped Mr. Grant could have shared strategies for companies to expand their influence with their existing clients, or even new ones.
My hope for the rest of the Leadershop is to help us not learn to be creative thinkers, but to explore how creative thinking can be used to grow area business.
Elliot Strunk
Oct 13, 2009 2:10pm
Martin,
Great feedback and certainly points we can incorporate into the next workshop series. For our follow-up, we did touch upon many of the areas you mention and plan to continue doing so.
Elliot