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<p>Introduction xi<br />Imagining Better Results for Teams</p> <p><b>I. What is a Visual Team? 1<br /></b>Using Graphics Across the Whole Workflow</p> <p>1. Working Like Designers 3<br />Why Visual Teams Get Results</p> <p>2. Why Be a Visual Team? 15<br />The Case for Collaboration</p> <p>3. A Graphic User Interface for Teams 29<br />The Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model</p> <p><b>II. Leading Visual Teams 55<br /></b>Seeing the BIG Picture</p> <p>4. So You’ve Just Been Promoted 57<br />Understanding Team Leadership</p> <p>5. Managing Four Flows of Activity 73<br />Attention, Energy, Information, & Operations</p> <p>6. Supporting Innovation 83<br />Providing Visual Tools</p> <p><b>III. Visual Team Startup 93<br /></b>Creating Trust, Focus, & Commitment</p> <p>7. Visualizing Purpose 95<br />Orienting to Your Mission</p> <p>8. Seeing Yourself As a Team 107<br />Developing Trust</p> <p>9. Clarifying Goals 117<br />Using the Graphic Gameplan</p> <p>10. Consensus or Command? 131<br />Deciding Commitments</p> <p><b>IV. Sustaining Results 149<br /></b>Innovating for High Performance</p> <p>11. Graphics & Project Management 151<br />Implementation You Can Literally See</p> <p>12. Visualizing & Innovating 159<br />Understanding High Performance</p> <p>13. Assessments, Dialogues, & Sharing Rallies 171<br />The Importance of Learning & Renewal</p> <p><b>V. Growing a Visual Team Culture 183<br /></b>Thinking BIG About Opportunities</p> <p>14. Introducing Visual Teams 185<br />Communicating Benefits</p> <p>15. Developing Visual Team Skills 193<br />Learning Tips & Tools</p> <p>16. Shared Visual Language 201<br />Toward an Operating System for Visual Teams</p> <p><b>VI. New Technology Tools 219<br /></b>A Revolution in Visual Collaboration</p> <p>17. Visual Tools Come of Age 221<br />Experiencing High Performance at the Institute for the Future</p> <p>18. Graphics for Distributed Teams 231<br />Web & Teleconferences</p> <p>19. Team Rooms & the Net 241<br />Physical Places or Virtual Spaces?</p> <p>20. Mobile Technology 249<br />Reshaping Tomorrow’s Teams</p> <p><b>VII. Links, Tools, & Other Resources 263</b></p> <p>21. Websites & Bibliography 265</p> <p>Appendix 273</p> <p>Jack R. Gibb’s Original Research 273</p> <p>Summary of Arthur M. Young’s Theory of Process 274</p> <p>Index 277</p>

<b>DAVID SIBBET</b> is a world leader in the area of 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. Sibbet has been the visual cartographer for the TED conference, and is the recipient of the OD Network Members Award for Creative Contribution to the field of organizational development.

<b>Visualize team plans, processes, and results!</b> <p>Visualization provides teams with a common language and serves as a powerful tool for improving processes and communicating big picture contexts. Building on the bestseller Visual Meetings, Visual Teams offers graphic tools and strategies for creating teams and sustaining results, whether you are co-located or spread around the world. This book highlights the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model, a tool used throughout such companies as Nike, Genentech, and Becton, Dickinson and Company. The model is a "map" to creating and sustaining high performance in all kinds of teams.</p> <p>Some of the most creative teams in business are found in the software, architecture, and information-design professions—and the "design approach" of these teams is the key to their creativity and productivity. Visual Teams presents a "design approach" for building and leading an innovative, high-performance team.</p> <p>"All of us who help teams do systemic, creative work on complex challenges know that it is essential for these teams to make their thinking visible. In this excellent book, visual-thinking pioneer David Sibbet shows us how."<br /> —<b>Adam Kahane</b>, Reos Partners author of <i>Power and Love: A Theory</i> and <i>Practice of Social Change</i></p> <p>"Like David's own graphics, this book layersconcrete practices and abstract theories, historical insights, and visions of future possibilities. The book is a master's course in a kind of teamwork that's uniquely suited to our times."<br /> —<b>Kathi Vian</b> The Institute for the Future</p> <p>"David Sibbet is the world's master teacher in graphic facilitation. In this landmark work he is insightful, entertaining and practical as he helps teams, team leaders, and consultants improve team performance by making it visual."<br /> —<b>Allan Drexler</b> Quality Team Performance</p> <p>"David is a pioneer in the field of visual thinking and team effectiveness. In Visual Teams, he shares both a hard-won wisdom and the nitty-gritty about what it really takes to ensure that your great ideas prevail."<br /> —<b>Hilary Austen</b> professor, consultant, and author of <i>Artistry Unleashed: A Guide to Pursuing Great Performance in Work and Life</i></p> <p>"Visuals nurture the heart as well as the mind. In <i>Visual Teams</i> David brilliantly demonstrates the power of graphics to foster inspiration, alignment, and results—a unique and exciting journey into the joys and challenges of teamwork."<br /> —<b>Meryem Le Saget Meryem</b> Le Saget Consulting, Paris</p>

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