Visual Meetings

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.

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