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“I learned to facilitate better communication between my team and executive stakeholders. The How to Win Stakeholders and Influence Decisions program helped me reframe, re-energize, and take back ownership of my work. (During the program, I pitched a vision for strategic research, got funding, and got this off the ground.)” - Experience Design Strategist Dive into the 8 Pillars of Stakeholder Influence that can help you take back ownership of your work: https://cstu.io/622f6c

New Talk UX Strategy session on Monday, July 29 at 2pm ET (18.00 GMT). Becoming The UX Leader Your Organization Needs Right Now In this session, we’re discussing how experienced professionals become the UX leaders that transform their organizations. You’ll discover how you can gain the necessary influence to change how your organization approaches UX and start delivering work that takes advantage of your full potential. Join in on the conversation live in our Leaders of Awesomeness community. (It’s free to join the community and attend the session. We ask people to register to keep spammers out.) https://cstu.io/f95806

▶️Achieving “Zero-Day Decisions” With Continuous UX Research Continuous UX research breaks this cycle. With ongoing UX research, you strategically influence your stakeholder’s critical decisions when they need to make them. These decisions get made in no time — in zero days — because you’ve already answered the most critical questions. During this thirty-five-minute recorded session, Achieving “Zero-Day Decisions” With Continuous UX Research, Jared explored how you’ll build up your continuous UX research program. You’ll discover how to provide answers to questions stakeholders just realized they had. Watch this recorded session and uncover how you’ll… 1️⃣Provide essential strategic insights at precisely the right moment with your continuous UX research efforts. 2️⃣Predict what questions stakeholders will need answers to with a research agenda that delivers a deep understanding of users and customers. 3️⃣Build the underlying practices that make a continuous UX research practice possible, including direct access to those hardest-to-reach users. https://lnkd.in/eVAS92bC

We’re excited to be giving a workshop on Outcome-driven UX Metrics at the UX Nordic Conference on August 28th. If you’re in Europe (or need another reason to go), join Jared Spool for a comprehensive exploration to develop organizational Outcome-driven UX Metrics. A process to drive organizations to deliver better-designed products and services through UX metrics. More information at: https://cstu.io/bc3c1d

▶️ User Research that Influences Decisions Transform your organization with insights that make a difference. Every big decision affects your users’ experience. What products or features should you build next? How will you tell when it’s ready to deliver? Who will be on the team that creates and delivers it? How long will the team have to work on it? Are the people who make these big decisions — the executives and key stakeholders — basing their decisions on user research? For most organizations, the answer is no. Yet, these are the very decisions that most need user research insights. So, how do we infuse these decisions with the research that will produce innovative, game-changing results? In this one-hour, six-minute recorded session, Jared explored how UX leaders have transformed their research practices to target the big decisions affecting their users. You’ll also discover how to position research as a strategic tool for raising your team’s influence. 👀Watch alongside your Product leadership to see how proactive user research will make their jobs easier and their decisions substantially less risky. https://lnkd.in/e4NX6B92 

Dive into our five-part Advanced Strategic UX Research Video Series: ⭐ Session 1 - Win Influence with a Strategic UX Research Approach ⭐ Session 2 - Deliver Better-Designed Products with a Research-Driven Roadmap ⭐ Session 3 - Increase Innovation with Continuous Research ⭐ Session 4 - Scale Your Organization’s Research Capabilities ⭐ Session 5 - Convince Stakeholders of the Full Value of UX Each part of our Advanced Strategic UX Research Essentials includes the latest concepts, materials, and thoughts on developing a strategic UX Research plan in your organization. Lead your executives to make critical business decisions that improve user experiences for the better. Access to all materials for 90 days at $147. Strategic UX Research is changing organizations. Use it to change yours. https://cstu.io/612c59

🔋Recharge Your UX Leadership Win over the hardest of the hard-to-convince stakeholders in your organization. Get teams to adopt a user-centered approach. Wake up excited about your UX work. ⭐Cohort Starting August 12 Read the details of our How to Win Stakeholders and Influence Decisions program: https://cstu.io/7691c2

In our Essentials of Finding Your Next UX Job video series, we cover the new tactics you’ll need to land that ideal opportunity. Tactics like: ❇️ Making Your Application Stand Out to Hiring Managers In this session, Jared explains how to make your application stand out from the hundreds or thousands of other applicants. ❇️ Portfolios and NDAs: Dealing with Secrets In this session, Jared describes how to navigate unreleased design work, information about customers, and work under NDAs. ❇️ Showing Non-Visual Work In Your Portfolio In this session, Jared explores how to express comparable experiences through stories when you need to present your work. Explore what you'll learn from every episode: https://cstu.io/a2b6da

Join Jared Spool’s Outcome-driven UX Metrics workshop at the UX Nordic Conference on August 28th. Register for tickets. You can find the full list of speakers and events: https://cstu.io/4189aa

Great innovation starts with excellent research participation. For many teams, recruiting participants for UX research becomes a big challenge. Without good participants, they won’t get the insights they need. Yet, they struggle to get people who might use their products or services into research sessions. Recruiting hard-to-reach participants doesn’t have to be complicated. However, the research team must make concerted and deliberate efforts. Effective UX research leaders dedicate time and resources to building out a network of participants. They value their participants and make the relationship reciprocal. In this recorded discussion, Jared Spool explored effective leaders' techniques for growing their network of research participants and how an excellent participant recruitment approach will improve the quality of your team’s research insights. ▶️How to Recruit Those Hard-to-Reach Research Participants: https://lnkd.in/ebsxyvyP