Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity Review
I`ve been a David Sibbet fan for many years. You are hereby forewarned that what follows is hopelessly biased. That said, brotherly love only goes so far. If this book were crap, I`d find a way to say so. But blessedly, and predictably, this book is way off scale in the other direction.
This is a fully useful manual of David's years of facilitation creativity in a form that is immediately accessible. If you are looking for a set of tools to make an insanely great improvement in your thinking and meeting chops, here you are. If you want some philosophical food for thought about understanding, perception, communication, design, teamwork and awareness, just keep reading. If you want to get beyond the dreary clutches of way too many powerpoint bullets, or you want to do something with a projected image that transcends PP, David's got a practice for you. If you really believe you can't draw, David will gently disabuse you of that notion and have you making intelligent marks in the first few pages.
Get a pad of paper and some pens and get reading and doodling. Then watch what happens at the first meeting you go to. After the first thirty pages of getting inspired, I tried some graphic notes on my iPad at the last film festival board meeting. Had a lot of fun, kept me awake, and then at the end the secretary asked to include them with her scribblings. Next week I take on a meeting of my own to facilitate and I'm trying the iPad trick on a projector, mixed with some pre prepared drawings as well. If nothing else, and there is much else, David delivers a dose of high flying courage to us shy people. David is one of the most courageous guys I know. And it comes through the pages nicely.
David and his book get five stars. It's always a privilege to spend time with him in whatever form. Please don't miss this chance.
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Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity Overview
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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Customer Reviews
User-friendly! - Lonni -
David Sibbet's Visual Meetings is a wonderful resource filled with great ideas and very practical suggestions. David cites examples of situations and links them to the skills he teaches and creates. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn more about human interaction, systems thinking, creative problem solving, and graphic recording. It is amazing!!
Visual Meetings - WHAT a terrific book! - Lynn Carruthers -
I knew from the very first mention of Visual Meetings, it would be a great book. Now that I have finally been able to sit down and read it word for word - goodness! I usually fold back the corners of pages that I want to refer back to but honestly, I'd just have to fold back every page so far, so am using that tried and true old fashioned method of highlighting the things that stick out for me.
I am particularly thrilled - and I have just read 3 or 4 chapters! - by the clear explanations about why what we do (graphic recording and graphic facilitation) works - things that the corporate clients I work with will be able to 'grok' and comprehend. I have never been especially skilled at explaining why it (graphic recording and facilitation) matters, why it makes a difference, and I am now soo armed with concise explanations, in language I understand and can properly - and convincingly - convey (cause it's true and I believe what I'm saying) - I am just delighted and inspired.
I hope Visual Meetings flies off the shelves.
This book is for everyone who ever doodled in class - Rachel S. Smith - California, USA
Some of us listen better with a pen or pencil in our hands. A lot of us probably got chastised for this in school -- I certainly did. If you're like me, inside this book you'll find not only a whole support group for your doodling habits, but an explanation for why drawing while listening (or watching someone draw while listening) actually makes it easier to follow a conversation and to retain what was said. It's also a wonderful introduction to the field of visual practice.
Visual Meetings is written in a clear, concise style. It explains how to facilitate meetings and engage groups in a whole new way. If you are already a facilitator, this book will take you the rest of the way to start doing it visually. If you are a beginning facilitator, there are lots of tips to help you grow more confident and skilled. And if you're thinking "but I can't draw," don't worry! You can do everything in this book too. Step-by-step descriptions tell you how to do everything from developing a basic visual vocabulary, to hanging large sheets of paper, to managing groups of all sizes and kinds. It's a great resource for practicing visual facilitators, too. I recommend it very highly.
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