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

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.

From the back cover:

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  

About the Author:

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.