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<p>Introduction xi<br /><i>The Power of Visual Meetings</i></p> <p><b>I: Just Imagine</b></p> <p>What if Meetings Were Really Fun AND Productive? 1</p> <p>1. Visualization is Worth 80 IQ Points 3<br /><i>Tapping Energy, Intelligence, & Creativity</i></p> <p>2. Everybody Knows Graphic Language 19<br /><i>It’s Gesture with a Pen</i></p> <p>3. Four Easy Ways to Get Started 37<br /><i>Personal Visualization, Napkins & Flipcharts, Graphic Templates, & Getting Others to Draw</i></p> <p><b>II: Engaging Groups & Building Rapport</b></p> <p>Why Visual Listening is So Compelling (and Easy!) 51</p> <p>4. Getting People Involved 53<br /><i>Using Pictures to Interact</i></p> <p>5. Presentation without PowerPoint 69<br /><i>Simple Drawings & Graphic Templates</i></p> <p>6. Consulting & Selling with Graphics 81<br /><i>Drawing Out Customer Interests</i></p> <p>7. Hands-On Information 89<br /><i>Sticky Notes & Dot Voting</i></p> <p>8. Using Images & Interaction 97<br /><i>Collage & Picture Cards</i></p> <p><b>III: Graphics for Visual Thinking</b></p> <p>Mapping Ideas & Finding Key Patterns 107</p> <p>9. Group Graphics 109<br /><i>Seven Ways to Write on the Wall</i></p> <p>10. Problem Solving 133<br /><i>Getting Unstuck & Thinking around Corners</i></p> <p>11. Storyboarding & Idea Mapping 147<br /><i>How Innovators & Designers Work</i></p> <p>12. Visual Planning 157<br /><i>Using Graphic Templates to See the Big Picture</i></p> <p>13. Multiple Meetings & Gallery Walks 173<br /><i>Making Sense of Things over Space & Time</i></p> <p>14. Digital Capture 183<br /><i>Extending Your Meeting with Visual Documentation</i></p> <p>15. Visualizing at a Distance 189<br /><i>Using Tablets in Web Meetings</i></p> <p><b>IV: Graphics for Enacting Plans</b></p> <p>Visuals for Teams, Projects, & Getting Results 195</p> <p>16. Supporting Team Performance 197<br /><i>Visualizing Goals, Roles, & Action Plans</i></p> <p>17. Decision-Making Meetings 205<br /><i>Aligning on Agreements & Getting Commitments</i></p> <p>18. Project Management Meetings 209<br /><i>Mapping Progress with Pictures</i></p> <p>19. Facilitating Innovation & Change 215<br /><i>Playing with Prototypes</i></p> <p>20. Training & Workshops 223<br /><i>Leveraging Action Learning</i></p> <p><b>V: Seeing It All Come Together</b></p> <p>Tools for the Seriously Hooked 229</p> <p>21. The Path to Visual Competency 231<br /><i>Learning from the Groups You Lead</i></p> <p>22. The Future is Visible Now! 237<br /><i>Seeds of a Real Revolution in Meetings</i></p> <p>23. Resources & Networks 247<br /><i>Grove Tools, Web Resources, Bibliography</i></p> <p>Index 255</p>

<b>Praise for Visual Meetings</b> <p>“David Sibbet is the father of visual facilitation. This book finally lets us see meetings as he sees them—as eye-opening opportunities to discover what people really think. David’s approach to visually recording and visually facilitating meetings will help you become a better meeting leader and participant, see a whole new side of business—and a whole new side of yourself.” <b>–Dan Roam, author of The Back of the Napkin</b></p> <p>“I have experienced the transformative power of David’s pioneering visual methods and tools. Open this book and you will get a clear vision of collaboration in the future—groups inspired and energized, tapping into their collective wisdom to create sustainable solutions: the global brain at work.” <b>–Meryem Le Saget, Meryem Le Saget Consulting, Paris</b></p> <p>“David Sibbet is a genius. Buy this book, and study it, not only for better meetings, but for better organizations, better teams, and a better future.” <b>–Alan M. Webber, co-founder of Fast Company magazine</b></p> <p>“This amazing book shows you how visualization can bring clarity to the growing complexity around us.” <b>–Bob Johansen, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future</b></p> <p>“This book is like David’s workshops—fun and fruitful. Time and again, I have seen the principles and processes described in this book yield a rich harvest among audiences in Singapore.” <b>–Dawn Yip, Soulbreath Consulting Singapore</b></p> <p>“Visual Meetings is an elegant and immensely practical guide to transforming group productivity. It provides novices with a fast start to making the most of scarce group time.” <b>–Paul Saffo, Technology Forecaster Visiting Scholar, Stanford Media-X Network</b></p> <p>“<i>’What If Meetings Were Really Fun AND Productive</i>?’ Can you imagine? Visual meetings master David Sibbet has done it—put all the competency, wisdom, language, technique, resources, tools, everything you need in one delightful book?” <b>–Robert E. Horn, author of Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21^st Century </b></p>

<b>David Sibbet</b> is a world leader in graphic facilitation and visual thinking for groups. He is the founder and president of The Grove Consultants International, a company whose leading-edge group-process tools and services for panoramic visualization, graphic facilitation, team leadership, and organizational transformation are used by consultants and organizations around the world.

<b>Eye-popping visual tools can energy your meetings!</b> <p>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, <i>Visual Meetings</i> give you a bounty of tools and tricks to unlock creativity, collaboration, and breakthrough thinking.</p> <ul> <li> <div>Use graphic recording, visual planning, storyboarding, idea mapping, and similar techniques</div> </li> <li> <div>Give better presentations <i>without</i> resorting to PowerPoint</div> </li> <li> <div>Consult and sell with graphics and visualization tools</div> </li> <li> <div>Get beyond paper and whiteboards to tablets, iPads, and other new media platforms</div> </li> <li> <div>Make all meetings more interesting and productive</div> </li> <li> <div>Improve both face-to-face and virtual group work</div> </li> <li> <div>And much more… </div> </li> </ul>

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