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I: Just Imagine: The Power of Visual Meetings

This document provides a summary of the book "Visual Meetings" which discusses how using visual tools like drawings, diagrams and images during meetings can make them more productive, engaging and fun. The book is divided into 5 sections that cover: 1) Getting started with personal visualization techniques, 2) Engaging groups through visual listening and interaction, 3) Using graphics for visual thinking and problem solving, 4) Applying visuals to enact plans, projects and get results, and 5) Tools for becoming competent with visual meeting facilitation. The overall message is that incorporating visual elements into meetings can tap into creativity, build rapport, help groups think in new ways and see ideas and plans more clearly.

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306 views4 pages

I: Just Imagine: The Power of Visual Meetings

This document provides a summary of the book "Visual Meetings" which discusses how using visual tools like drawings, diagrams and images during meetings can make them more productive, engaging and fun. The book is divided into 5 sections that cover: 1) Getting started with personal visualization techniques, 2) Engaging groups through visual listening and interaction, 3) Using graphics for visual thinking and problem solving, 4) Applying visuals to enact plans, projects and get results, and 5) Tools for becoming competent with visual meeting facilitation. The overall message is that incorporating visual elements into meetings can tap into creativity, build rapport, help groups think in new ways and see ideas and plans more clearly.

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Contents

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Introduction

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The Power of Visual Meetings xi

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I: Just Imagine

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What if Meetings Were Really Fun AND Productive? 1 Visions Actions
IMAGINE
1. Visualization Is Worth 80 IQ Points / Tapping Energy, Intelligence, & Creativity 3

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2. Everybody Knows Graphic Language / It’s Gesture with a Pen 19
Results

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3. Four Easy Ways to Get Started / Personal Visualization, Napkins & Flipcharts, Values
Graphic Templates, & Getting Others to Draw 37

II: Engaging Groups & Building Rapport GH ENGAGE


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Why Visual Listening Is So Compelling (and Easy!) 51
LISTEN
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4. Getting People Involved / Using Pictures to Interact 53


TALK
5. Presentation without PowerPoint / Simple Drawings & Graphic Templates 69
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6. Consulting & Selling with Graphics / Drawing Out Customer Interests 81 VISUAL-
7. Hands-On Information / Sticky Notes & Dot Voting 89 IZE

8. Using Images & Interaction / Collage & Picture Cards 97


SEE!

Contents / vii
III: Graphics for Visual Thinking
Mapping Ideas & Finding Key Patterns 107
THINK
9. 9. Group Graphics / Seven Ways to Write on the Wall 109
10. Problem Solving / Getting Unstuck & Thinking around Corners 133
11. Storyboarding & Idea Mapping / How Innovators & Designers Work 147
12. Visual Planning / Using Graphic Templates to See the Big Picture 157
13. Multiple Meetings & Gallery Walks / Making Sense of Things CONTEX T ACTION VISION
over Space & Time 173
14. Digital Capture / Extending Your Meeting with Visual Documentation 183
15. Visualizing at a Distance / Using Tablets in Web Meetings 189

HERE IS WHAT
IV: Graphics for Enacting Plans WE ARE CREATING
Visuals for Teams, Projects, & Getting Results 195

16. Supporting Team Performance / Visualizing Goals, Roles, & Action Plans 197
17. Decision-Making Meetings / Aligning on Agreements & Getting Commitments 205
18. Project Management Meetings / Mapping Progress with Pictures 209
19. Facilitating Innovation & Change / Playing with Prototypes 215
ENACT I finally
20. Training & Workshops / Leveraging Action Learning 223 see what
they mean
viii / VISUAL MEETINGS
V: Seeing It All Come Toge ther
Tools for the Seriously Hooked 229

21. The Path to Visual Competency / Learning from the Groups You Lead   231
22. The Future Is Visible Now! / Seeds of a Real Revolution in Meetings   237
23. Resources & Networks / Grove Tools, Web Resources, Bibliography 247

Index 255

Contents / ix

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