Graphic Facilitation for Productive Team Meetings

40mIntermediate2019-10-23

Authors

Nevada Lane

Founder and Principal Consultant at Lane Change Consulting

Course details

Explore how to use graphic facilitation to make your team meetings more engaging, memorable, and effective. Graphic facilitators use large, hand-drawn graphics created in real time to help teams see conversations unfold visually, fostering understanding, productivity, and engagement. Instructor Nevada Lane introduces the building blocks of visual thinking, shares how to combine those blocks to create a compelling record of a conversation, and offers visual templates to get you started. Learn how to listen for key words and phrases while creating simple yet meaningful graphics during a meeting.

Learning objectives
Making team meetings visual and engaging
Skills to create clarity
Writing while listening
Creating visual structure
Creating a personal icon library
Drawing people and emotions
Using color to create meaning
Providing structure with visual templates
Creating your own visual templates

Skills covered

Meeting SkillsProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and ManagementDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Making team meetings visual and engaging
02 - Benefits of graphic facilitation

1. Making Conversations Visual

03 - Skills to create clarity
04 - Building blocks for visual conversations
05 - Text tips and tricks
06 - Writing while listening
07 - Creating a personal icon library
08 - Drawing people and emotions
09 - Using diagrams to create insights
10 - Combine the building blocks

2. Providing Structure with Visual Templates

11 - Sample visual templates
12 - Creating your own visual templates

3. Implementing Graphic Facilitation Successfully

13 - When to use graphic facilitation
14 - Leader as graphic facilitator
15 - Graphic facilitation tools

Conclusion

16 - Practice graphic facilitation