Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes & Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity
- 4h 40m
- David Sibbet
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2010
Use eye-popping visual tools to energize your people!
Just as social networking has reclaimed the Internet for human interactivity and co-creation, the visual meetings movement is reclaiming creativity, productivity, and playful exchange for serious work in groups.
Visual Meetings explains how anyone can implement powerful visual tools, and how these tools are being used in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to facilitate both face-to-face and virtual group work. This dynamic and richly illustrated resource gives meeting leaders, presenters, and consultants a slew of exciting tricks and tools, including
- Graphic recording, visual planning, story boarding, graphic templates, idea mapping, etc.
- Creative ways to energize team building, sales presentations, staff meetings, strategy sessions, brainstorming, and more
- Getting beyond paper and whiteboards to engage new media platforms
- Understanding emerging visual language for leading groups
Unlocking formerly untapped creative resources for business success, Visual Meetings will help you and your team communicate ideas more effectively and engagingly.
About the Author
David Sibbet is a world leader in graphic facilitation and visual thinking for groups. He is the founder and president of The Grove Consultants International, a company whose leading-edge group-process tools and services for panoramic visualization, graphic facilitation, team leadership, and organizational transformation are used by consultants and organizations around the world.
In this Book
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Introduction—The Power of Visual Meetings
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Visualization is Worth 80 IQ Points—Tapping Energy, Intelligence, & Creativity
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Everybody Knows Graphic Language—It's Gesture with a Pen
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Four Easy Ways to Get Started—Personal Visualization, Napkins & Flipcharts, Graphic Templates, & Getting others to Draw
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Getting People Involved—Using Pictures to Interact
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Presentation without PowerPoint—Simple Drawings & Graphic Templates
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Consulting & Selling with Graphics—Drawing Out Customer Interests
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Hands-On Information—Sticky Notes & Dot Voting
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Using Images & Interaction—Collage & Picture Cards
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Group Graphics—Seven Ways to Write on the Wall
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Problem Solving—Getting Unstuck & Thinking around Corners
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Storyboarding & Idea Mapping—How Innovators & Designers Work
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Visual Planning—Using Graphic Templates to See the Big Picture
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Multiple Meetings & Gallery Walks—Making Sense of Things over Space & Time
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Digital Capture—Extending Your Meeting with Visual Documentation
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Visualizing at a Distance—Using Tablets in Web Meetings
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Supporting Team Performance—Visualizing Goals, Roles, & Action Plans
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Decision-Making Meetings—Aligning on Agreements & Getting Commitments
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Project Management Meetings—Mapping Progress with Pictures
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Facilitating Innovation & Change—Playing with Prototypes
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Training & Workshops—Leveraging Action Learning
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The Path to Visual Competency—Learning from the Groups You Lead
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The Future is Visible Now!—Seeds of a Real Revolution in Meetings
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