Visual Meetings

Eye-popping visual tools can energize your meetings!

When people work visually they have better ideas, make better decisions, and are more committed to producing results. A twenty-first century guide to using the latest visual thinking techniques with your groups and teams. Visual Meetings gives you a bounty of tools and tricks to unlock creativity, collaboration, and breakthrough thinking.

• Use graphic recordings, visual planning, storybording, idea mapping, and similar techniques
• Give better presentations without resorting to PowerPoint
• Consult and sell with graphics and visualization tools
• Get beyond paper and whiteboards to tablets, iPads, and other new media platforms
• Make all meetings more interesting and productive
• Improve both face-to-face and virtual group work
• And much more…

• Introduction
  The Power of Visual Meetings

1. Just Imagine
   What If Meetings Were Really Fun AND Productive?
   1. Visualization Is Worth 80 IQ Points
      Topping 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
2. Engaging Groups & Building Support
   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
3. 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
4. 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 Managament Meetings
       Mapping Progress with Pictures
   19. Facilitating Innovation & Change
       Playing with Prototypes
   20. Training & Workshops
       Leveraging Action Learning
5. 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
       Groove Tools, Web Resources, Bibliography

Considering that I am not a very visual guy, but prefer logical arguments and hard, cold, numbers, you may be surprised that I found this book to be good!

It is a no-nonsense (well, a little bias is there in the book, that everybody is capable to draw graphics, which I can tell you is not true) book, which manages to be enjoyable after you have gotten used to the chaotic format and the plethora of illustrations in the book (too much illustrations, much of which doesn't lead forward, but just illustrations for illustrations sake).

Anyway, I believe that most of us can learn a lot from this book, and thereby be better presenters and have more productive meetings. In short, there is no catastrophic gaps you will have without reading it, but you will learn something if you decide to read it.