Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity

Part I. Just Imagine: What if Meetings Were Really Fun AND Productive?

I: Just Imagine

This section provides a high-level overview of visual meetings, so that you can imagine all the different ways they can work for you, and how you can start successfully. Themes begun here reappear in later chapters that begin to explain some of the ways you can build on these fundamentals.

• Chapter 1: Visualization Is Worth 80 IQ Points Stories of inventing visual strategies at Apple Computer for agenda management, histories, visions, dialogue support; why point of view is so important; overview of the learning cycle and how visuals support each step; International Forum of Visual Practitioners as a mirror of what is possible.

• Chapter 2: Everybody Knows Graphic Language Graphics as an outgrowth of gestural communication; how to begin playing around with graphics; exercises to unlock your ability to draw; how to hang paper; basic shapes and pictographs; thinking about basic formats.

• Chapter 3: Four Easy Ways to Get Started Visualizing for your personal note taking and thinking; working with flip charts and napkins in informal situations; using simple graphic templates; getting others to do the drawing.