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    Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity

    Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity

    by David Sibbet


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      ISBN-13: 9780470945407
    • Publisher: Wiley
    • Publication date: 08/26/2010
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 288
    • Sales rank: 370,582
    • File size: 10 MB

    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.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    The Power of Visual Meetings xi

    I: Just Imagine

    What if Meetings Were Really Fun AND Productive? 1

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

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

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

    II: Engaging Groups&Building Rapport

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

    4. Getting People Involved / Using Pictures to Interact 53

    5. Presentation without PowerPoint / Simple Drawings&Graphic Templates 69

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

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

    8. Using Images&Interaction / Collage&Picture Cards 97

    III: Graphics for Visual Thinking

    Mapping Ideas&Finding Key Patterns 107

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

    10. Problem Solving / Getting Unstuck&Thinking around Corners 133

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

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

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

    14. Digital Capture / Extending Your Meeting with Visual Documentation 183

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

    IV: Graphics for Enacting Plans

    Visuals for Teams, Projects,&Getting Results 195

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

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

    18. Project Management Meetings / Mapping Progress with Pictures 209

    19. Facilitating Innovation&Change / Playing with Prototypes 215

    20. Training&Workshops / Leveraging Action Learning 223

    V: Seeing It All Come Together

    Tools for the Seriously Hooked 229

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

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

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

    Index 255

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    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.

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    Praise for Visual Meetings

    “David Sibbet is the father of visual facilitation. This book finally lets us see meetings as he sees them—as eye-opening opportunities to discover what people really think. David’s approach to visually recording and visually facilitating meetings will help you become a better meeting leader and participant, see a whole new side of business—and a whole new side of yourself.” –Dan Roam, author of The Back of the Napkin

    “I have experienced the transformative power of David’s pioneering visual methods and tools. Open this book and you will get a clear vision of collaboration in the future—groups inspired and energized, tapping into their collective wisdom to create sustainable solutions: the global brain at work.” –Meryem Le Saget, Meryem Le Saget Consulting, Paris

    “David Sibbet is a genius. Buy this book, and study it, not only for better meetings, but for better organizations, better teams, and a better future.” –Alan M. Webber, co-founder of Fast Company magazine

    “This amazing book shows you how visualization can bring clarity to the growing complexity around us.” –Bob Johansen, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future

    “This book is like David’s workshops—fun and fruitful. Time and again, I have seen the principles and processes described in this book yield a rich harvest among audiences in Singapore.” –Dawn Yip, Soulbreath Consulting Singapore

    “Visual Meetings is an elegant and immensely practical guide to transforming group productivity. It provides novices with a fast start to making the most of scarce group time.” –Paul Saffo, Technology Forecaster Visiting Scholar, Stanford Media-X Network

    ’What If Meetings Were Really Fun AND Productive?’ Can you imagine? Visual meetings master David Sibbet has done it—put all the competency, wisdom, language, technique, resources, tools, everything you need in one delightful book?” –Robert E. Horn, author of Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century 

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