Visual Meetings

Eye-popping visual tools can energy your meetings! When people work visually they have better ideas, make better decisions, and are more committed to producing results. A twenty-first century guide to using the latest visual thinking techniques with your groups and teams, Visual Meetings give you a bounty of tools and tricks to unlock creativity, collaboration, and breakthrough thinking. - Use graphic recording, visual planning, storyboarding, idea mapping, and similar techniques - Give better presentations without resorting to PowerPoint - Consult and sell with graphics and visualization tools - Get beyond paper and whiteboards to tablets, iPads, and other new media platforms - Make all meetings more interesting and productive - Improve both face-to-face and virtual group work - And much more... 

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.

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