Facilitation Graphics

Description:
This highly interactive course will take you from stick figures to colorful, dynamic graphics one step at a time… no artistic skill needed. We guide you step-by-step to build your skills so you feel confident using text, color, and graphics to enrich your leadership, communications, facilitation, training and coaching toolkit.

Regardless of your perceived artistic skills, you will strengthen your competency in combining words and visuals to communicate more clearly, deeply and dramatically.

Outcomes:
• Engage more participation, creativity and ownership from groups.
• Reveal relationships and deeper meaning of strategies by the use of graphics.
• Convey information visually to aid brain processing.
• Assist 82% of participants that process information best with a visual element to thing more effectively.
• Use visual thinking to meaningfully improve the design and functions of strategic conversations.

Benefits:
• Learn relevant theories around visuals and how they enhance learning.
• Receive tips for crafting beautiful flipcharts with clarity, color, and flair.
• Develop basic drawing skills: how to create shapes, icons, and people.
• Create icon libraries.
• Organize information graphically.
• Use the power of metaphor to spark creativity and energy in your team.
• Receive: step-by-step manual and resource guide, 1 hour of free expert coaching, + a marker set.
• Leave with designs for real meetings and group sessions and templates, flipcharts and visual aids that can be reused for visual work.

Who Should Take this Course:
• People who think they can’t draw or illustrate concepts
• People who can draw and want to marry graphic illustration with group dynamics
• Facilitators and session note takers
• Anyone communicating to or leading groups
• Course instructors, teachers and trainers
• Communications professionals
• Consultants and coaches
• Managers and leaders
• Those who want to develop their skills at communicating and facilitating using basic visual thinking and visual communication techniques
• Anyone who wants to build on the concepts learned from the Power of Image Shift course

Course Length: Full day Prerequisite: None
Participants: Minimum number is 4. Maximum number is 30.