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.

  Autorentext

  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.

  Zusammenfassung

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.

  Inhalt

  Introduction xi
  The Power of Visual Meetings

  I: Just Imagine

  What if Meetings Were Really Fun AND Productive? 1

  1. Visualization is Worth 80 IQ Points 3
     Tapping Energy, Intelligence, & Creativity

  2. Everybody Knows Graphic Language 19
     It's Gesture with a Pen

  3. Four Easy Ways to Get Started 37
     Personal Visualization, Napkins & Flipcharts, Graphic Templates, & Getting Others to Draw

  II: Engaging Groups & Building Rapport

  Why Visual Listening is So Compelling (and Easy!) 51

  4. Getting People Involved 53
     Using Pictures to Interact

  5. Presentation without PowerPoint 69
     Simple Drawings & Graphic Templates

  6. Consulting & Selling with Graphics 81
     Drawing Out Customer Interests

  7. Hands-On Information 89
     Sticky Notes & Dot Voting

  8. Using Images & Interaction 97
     Collage & Picture Cards

  III: Graphics for Visual Thinking

  Mapping Ideas & Finding Key Patterns 107

  9. Group Graphics 109
     Seven Ways to Write on the Wall

  10. Problem Solving 133
      Getting Unstuck & Thinking around Corners

  11. Storyboarding & Idea Mapping 147
      How Innovators & Designers Work

  12. Visual Planning 157
      Using Graphic Templates to See the Big Picture

  13. Multiple Meetings & Gallery Walks 173
      Making Sense of Things over Space & Time

  14. Digital Capture 183
      Extending Your Meeting with Visual Documentation

  15. Visualizing at a Distance 189
      Using Tablets in Web Meetings

  IV: Graphics for Enacting Plans

  Visuals for Teams, Projects, & Getting Results 195

  16. Supporting Team Performance 197
      Visualizing Goals, Roles, & Action Plans

  17. Decision-Making Meetings 205
      Aligning on Agreements & Getting Commitments

  18. Project Management Meetings 209
      Mapping Progress with Pictures

  19. Facilitating Innovation & Change 215
      Playing with Prototypes

  20. Training & Workshops 223
      Leveraging Action Learning

  V: Seeing It All Come Together

  Tools for the Seriously Hooked 229

  21. The Path to Visual Competency 231
      Learning from the Groups You Lead

  22. The Future is Visible Now! 237
      Seeds of a Real Revolution in Meetings

  23. Resources & Networks 247
      Grove Tools, Web Resources, Bibliography

  Index 255