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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
