March 31, 2020

MBA209: Visual Thinking

31 minutes

Grant Wright Shares simple Visual Thinking tools and practices to help your team get aligned and retain information.

Show Notes

Do you want to increase retention of information, ensure alignment and a shared understanding, and increase creativity? Visual Thinking can help get everyone on the same page, increase the team’s ability to solve problems, and help everyone remember what was discussed.

Listen

to the full episode to understand the tools and techniques of Visual Thinking

and how they can benefit you on your next initiative.

Additional Resources

Useful books on Visual

Thinking:

The Sketchnote Handbook by Mike Rohde
The Sketchnote Workbook by Mike Rohde
Visual Thinking by Willemien Brand
The Non-Designer’s Design Book – Design and

Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice by Robin Williams

Thinking With Your Pen by Martin Haussmann

Other related books:

The Art of Explanation – Making your ideas,

products & services easier to understand by Lee Lefever

Resonate – Present Visual Stories that

Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte

Other useful resources:

Www.verbaltovisual.com –

Doug Neil – great videos on sketch noting, suitable for beginners

Www.gamestorming.com –

Dave Gray’s co-creation tools with lots of great visual facilitation

ideas

Www.xplane.com –

Dave Gray’s consulting company – useful blog & other info

Www.innovationgames.com –

Luke Hoffman

YOUR HOMEWORK

Don’t be intimidated by visual thinking. Start small with doodles in your own notebook or add a few hand-drawn visuals in your next PowerPoint deck.

Don’t forget that using colored Post-It Notes is a form of visualization too.

Get inspired by searching Instagram for #VisualThinking.

Finally, start building your own hand-drawn icon library by having several pre-defined shapes and images that you practice and can draw.

Links Mentioned in this Episode

Grant’s website: scarlettsolutions.co.uk

Grant Wright has over 20 years’ experience of delivering and leading enterprise-scale transformation and digital service design across government and financial services sectors. He is a Principal Consultant and Director of Scarlett Solutions, a UK based consultancy specializing in business analysis/architecture, agile product management and business transformation. He actively practices Visual Thinking throughout his work and is passionate about its ability to create alignment, improve understanding and generate creative ideas.

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