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Visual Meetings
How Graphics, Sticky Notes & Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity
Publisher: Wiley, 2010 , 262 pages
Synopsis:
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Eye-popping visual tools can energize 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 gives you a bounty of tools and tricks to unlock creativity, collaboration, and breakthrough thinking.
- Use graphic recordings, visual planning, storybording, 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...
Table of Contents:
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- Introduction
The Power of Visual Meetings
- Just Imagine
What If Meetings Were Really Fun AND Productive?- Visualization Is Worth 80 IQ Points
Topping Energy, Intelligence & Creativity - Everybody Knows Graphic Language
It's Gesture with a Pen - Four Easy Ways to Get Started
Personal Visualization, Napkins & Flipcharts, Graphic Templates, & Getting Others to Draw
- Visualization Is Worth 80 IQ Points
- Engaging Groups & Building Support
Why Visual Listening Is So Compelling (and Easy!)- Getting People Involved
Using Pictures to Interact - Presentation without PowerPoint
Simple Drawings & Graphic Templates - Consulting & Selling with Graphics
Drawing Out Customer Interests - Hands-On Information
Sticky Notes & Dot Voting - Using Images & Interaction
Collage & Picture Cards
- Getting People Involved
- Graphics for Visual Thinking
Mapping Ideas & Finding Key Patterns- Group Graphics
Seven Ways to Write on the Wall - Problem Solving
Getting Unstuck & Thinking around Corners - Storyboarding & Idea Mapping
How Innovators & Designers Work - Visual Planning
Using Graphic Templates to See the Big Picture - Multiple Meetings & Gallery Walks
Making Sense of Things over Space & Time - Digital Capture
Extending Your Meeting with Visual Documentation - Visualizing at a Distance
Using Tablets in Web Meetings
- Group Graphics
- Graphics for Enacting Plans
Visuals for Teams, Projects, & Getting Results- Supporting Team Performance
Visualizing Goals, Roles, & Action Plans - Decision-Making Meetings
Aligning on Agreements & Getting Commitments - Project Managament Meetings
Mapping Progress with Pictures - Facilitating Innovation & Change
Playing with Prototypes - Training & Workshops
Leveraging Action Learning
- Supporting Team Performance
- Seeing It All Come Together
Tools for the Seriously Hooked- The Path to Visual Competency
Learning from the Groups You Lead - The Future Is Visible Now!
Seeds of a Real Revolution in Meetings - Resources & Networks
Groove Tools, Web Resources, Bibliography
- The Path to Visual Competency
- Introduction
Reviews:
Visual Meetings
Rating: ******* (Good)
Considering that I am not a very visual guy, but prefer logical arguments and hard, cold, numbers, you may be surprised that I found this book to be good!
It is a no-nonsense (well, a little bias is there in the book, that everybody is capable to draw graphics, which I can tell you is not true) book, which manages to be enjoyable after you have gotten used to the chaotic format and the plethora of illustrations in the book (too much illustrations, much of which doesn't lead forward, but just illustrations for illustrations sake).
Anyway, I believe that most of us can learn a lot from this book, and thereby be better presenters and have more productive meetings. In short, there is no catastrophic gaps you will have without reading it, but you will learn something if you decide to read it.