Use eye-popping visual tools to energize your people! Just as social networking has reclaimed the Internet for human interactivity and co-creation, the visual meetings movement is reclaiming creativity, productivity, and playful exchange for serious work in groups.

Table of Contents :

I: Just Imagine.
What if Meetings Were Really Fun AND Productive?
1. Visualization Is Worth 80 IQ Points / Tapping Energy, Intelligence, & Creativity.
2. Everybody Knows Graphic Language / It’s Gesture with a Pen.
3. Four Easy Ways to Get Started / Personal Visualization, Napkins & Flipcharts, Graphic Templates, & Getting Others to Draw.
II: Engaging Groups & Building Rapport.
Why Visual Listening Is So Compelling (and Easy!).
4. Getting People Involved / Using Pictures to Interact.
5. Presentation without PowerPoint / Simple Drawings & Graphic Templates.
6. Consulting & Selling with Graphics / Drawing Out Customer Interests.
7. Hands-On Information / Sticky Notes & Dot Voting.
8. Using Images & Interaction / Collage & Picture Cards.
III: Graphics for Visual Thinking.
Mapping Ideas & Finding Key Patterns.
9. Group Graphics / Seven Ways to Write on the Wall.
10. Problem Solving / Getting Unstuck & Thinking around Corners.
11. Storyboarding & Idea Mapping / How Innovators & Designers Work.
12. Visual Planning / Using Graphic Templates to See the Big Picture.
13. Multiple Meetings & Gallery Walks / Making Sense of Things over Space & Time.
14. Digital Capture / Extending Your Meeting with Visual Documentation.
15. Visualizing at a Distance / Using Tablets in Web Meetings.
IV: Graphics for Enacting Plans.
Visuals for Teams, Projects, & Getting Results.
16. Supporting Team Performance / Visualizing Goals, Roles, & Action Plans.
17. Decision-Making Meetings / Aligning on Agreements & Getting Commitments.
18. Project Management Meetings / Mapping Progress with Pictures.
19. Facilitating Innovation & Change / Playing with Prototypes.
20. Training & Workshops / Leveraging Action Learning.
V: Seeing It All Come Together.
Tools for the Seriously Hooked.
21. The Path to Visual Competency / Learning from the Groups You Lead.
22. The Future Is Visible Now! / Seeds of a Real Revolution in Meetings.
23. Resources & Networks / Grove Tools, Web Resources, Bibliography.