Visual Collaboration: A Powerful Toolkit for Improving Meetings, Projects, and Processes

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Have you ever felt stuck with methods, tools and skills that do not match the increasing complexity you are part of? Would you like to work in new ways that strengthen thinking, communication and collaboration? Visual Collaboration introduces a new and innovative way of working and collaborating that will help you successfully manage complexity for yourself, your team, and your entire organization. The method of this book unlocks any team’s ability to collaborate in complex projects and processes. By using a systematic and proven approach to drawing and visualizing. Visual Collaboration is a unique visual business book that will enable you to develop visual languages to fit any scenario, create engaging and powerful questions to assist your visual process design and turn a white canvas into a visual template that can improve any meeting, project, or process.d The core of the book - a practical and easy-to-follow method - THE FIVE BUILDING BLOCKS will most likely become your preferred way of working. The method is supported by plentiful examples, 4-color drawing, chapter summaries, and clearly defined learning objectives. Enjoyable and powerful, this book will help you: • Use visualization as a tool to explore opportunities and challenges • Translate complex concepts into easy-to-understand actions • Engage employees and team members with effective strategic processes • Incorporate drawing into your strategic organizational toolbox to strengthen communication and collaboration • Develop and apply powerful visual literacy skills The authors, internationally-recognized experts in strategy communication and visual facilitation, have helped incorporate visual collaboration into more than 500 organizations such as LEGO, IKEA, the Red Cross, the United Nations, and many others. This book is the must-have resource for you to follow their example.

Author(s): Ole Qvist-Sorensen; Loa Baastrup
Year: 2019

Language: English
Commentary: Visual Collaboration, A Powerful Toolkit for Improving Meetings, Projects, and Processes
Pages: 304
Tags: Visual Collaboration, A Powerful Toolkit for Improving Meetings, Projects, and Processes

The five colored chapters present the Five Building Blocks of Visual Collaboration™—a practical method for working visually. The remaining chapters offer different perspectives on visual collaboration.
Cover
Introduction
Why draw?
Who can draw and where?
Why draw together?
Vocabulary for Visual Collaboration
Visual collaboration is also when ...
Boost your visual literacy
From basic shapes to icons
From icons to templates
The Five Building Blocks of Visual Collaboration™
How to use the building blocks
Using the building blocks for a strategy process
Summary
1. Discover your visual language
The Seven Elements™
The Eighth Element™
Summary
A visual language for innovation
2. Design your collaboration process
Good preparation
Good preparation
How to use the tool
Summary
Aligned by shared purpose
3. Define key questions
Good questions
Facilitation questions
Visualization questions
Question test
Summary
A compass for good decision making
4. Create engaging templates
Create clarity
Template considerations
Template design in five steps
Template elements
Templates you may know
Inspiration
Summary
The big picture of purchasing
5. Prepare to scale
Scaling
The visual playbook
Summary
6. Enable Group Learning
Managing complexity
Systems theory foundation
Group learning
The visual learning arena
Summary
7. Map your skills
Three competence areas
Eight skills
Summary
8. Activate your resources
Choice of resources
Participants
Facilities
Equipment
Materials
Summary
9. Do's and dont's
A look back
Use
Weaknesses
Value
Summary
Appendix
The learning arena of this book
Inspiration
Credits
Great books
Acknowledgments
Index
End User License Agreement