Visual Thinking for Effective Collaboration
- Location: Live Online
- Duration: 4 hrs
- Level: Microcredential
- Badge Included
Visual Thinking for Effective Collaboration brings together over 20 years of proven tools and techniques to help you communicate ideas clearly, align teams faster, and make better decisions.
This highly interactive four-hour Scrum Alliance Microcredential equips you with practical visual skills that go beyond traditional note-taking. You’ll learn how to make the invisible visible, turning conversations into shared understanding and helping teams navigate complexity with clarity and confidence.
This course builds your visual literacy by breaking the myth that visual thinking requires artistic talent. Instead, you’ll discover simple, practical techniques you can immediately use to support collaboration, facilitate discussions, and turn ideas into impact.
This isn’t about learning to draw. It’s about learning to think, communicate, and collaborate more effectively.
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This highly interactive four-hour Scrum Alliance Microcredential equips you with practical visual skills that go beyond traditional note-taking.
Are you looking for more than just another training class?
Course topics
Lesson 1: Foundations
- Explain why visual thinking improves clarity and alignment
- Define visual literacy and remove the “I can’t draw” barrier
- Distinguish visual thinking vs visual storytelling
Lesson 2: Building Blocks
- Build a simple icon + metaphor toolkit from basic shapes
- Use visuals to align on abstract concepts
- Practice rapid, collaborative visual exercises
Lesson 3: Structure
- Choose the right visual approach for the moment
- Use core layouts (linear, grid, path, radial) to organise information.
- Apply simple hierarchy (titles, containers, emphasis)
Lesson 4: Synthesis
- Capture conversations visually using active listening + synthesis
- Use storyboarding and radial mapping to explore systems and solve problems
- Identify what will help or hinder applying visual thinking at work
What you'll get
- Instruction from a Certified Scrum Trainer and Visual Thinking practitioner
Learn directly from the course author using proven, real-world techniques - Visual Thinking foundations
Understand visual literacy and how visuals improve clarity, alignment, and communication - Practical tools and frameworks
Use simple visual structures and tools to organise ideas and support team collaboration - A repeatable visual vocabulary
Build clear icons and metaphors to represent ideas, systems, and abstract concepts - Real-time visual facilitation skills
Capture conversations live and help teams reach shared understanding faster - Hands-on practice and exercises
Apply visual thinking techniques to improve alignment, problem-solving, and communication
Why this course?
Learn first hand insights from the course author, who brings these ideas to life in a practical, applied way, grounded in years of real-world experience
Bringing together proven visual thinking tools and practical techniques that help make the invisible visible and turn ideas into shared understanding
Who is this course suitable for?
This course is ideal for professionals who want to improve communication, alignment, and collaboration using visual thinking, including:
- Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Facilitators
- Product Owners and Product Managers
- Team Leads, Managers, and Leaders
- Developers, Designers, and cross-functional team members
- Trainers, Consultants, and anyone who facilitates workshops or meetings
No artistic ability is required—visual thinking is a communication skill, not an art form.
Are there any prerequisites for this course?
There are no prerequisites for the course.
