Visual Thinking and Facilitation

Visualise your ideas and make team collaboration more effective.

Learn basic drawing techniques to build a visual vocabulary that can be used to generate ideas and solve problems with your teams in this highly interactive 3 half days Visual Thinking and Facilitation course

Gain the ability to support a working group to express ideas and solve problems effectively by applying a visual language

Build a reusable bank of images and make use of graphic templates that will foster collaborative learning and cultivate innovation

Discover visual thinking tools and techniques that will assist with business alignment and customer engagement.

Thee half days modules of high quality instruction from Stuart Young , a professional live illustrator and Certified ScrumMaster with a deep-rooted appreciation of Agile Principles. Stuart has harnessed his creative skills to translate concepts and processes into engaging visuals during workshops, events and conferences. Also included are:

• •  A pre course setup call (Live-Online events only)
• •  Visual Thinking Handouts
• •  A variety graphic-templates
• •  A post course 20 minute follow up session (Live-Online events only)

Module 1 – The theory of Visual Thinking and drawing deep dive

We will focus on the why of Visual Thinking before progressing with drawing techniques and top tips. By the end of the session you will have a bank of reusable images to master and evolve.

Module 2 - Building your Visual Thinking Toolbox

We will focus on some key aspects of Visual Thinking including lettering techniques, title banners, containers; and layout, flow and structure patterns. You now have the ingredients to tell an impactful visual story.

Module 3 - Visual Facilitation and Active listening

During this final module we will run active listening exercises before simulating idea mapping and problem-solving exercises with the use of online graphic templates. Now you have the ability to embrace group diversity and convergent thinking virtually.

Learning Objectives

• •  Apply visual thinking skills to support working groups to effectively express ideas and solve problems.
• •  Discover visual thinking tools and techniques that will assist with business alignment and customer engagement.
• •  Create the perfect conditions to enhance distributed innovation and accelerate learning.

This workshop is aimed at anyone who wants to learn and improve their visualisation skills

There are no prerequisites for the course.

This workshop does not require any pre-course preparation.

This workshop does not provide a formal certification and does not include an exam.