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RUNNING ORDER
- Intro: Who is Ole?
- Ole’s path into visual thinking and facilitation
- Applying visual thinking in business
- Visuals being amplified right now
- Mike’s path to visual thinking
- Mike’s re-teaching design through sketchnoting
- Ole’s approach with bigger pages
- Bigger Picture’s 5 biggest business challenges approach
- From personal to shared notes as a facilitator
- Teaching simple drawing to unlock people
- Whiteboard wireframing
- Helping people discover their own visual language
- The value of cross-disciplinary understanding
- Honoring others through humility
- Ole’s describes his book, Visual Collaboration
- Idea 1: Discover your visual language
- Idea 2: Use visual language to visualize meetings
- Idea 3: What questions will make meetings effective
- idea 4: Create structured templates for successful meetings
- Idea 5: Create storyboards to scale collaborative meetings
- Co-creating out of the unknown with visuals
- Tools
- Reaching out to Ole
- 200 free icons!
- Outro
LINKS
- Ole on LinkedIn
- Ole on Twitter
- Visual Collaboration
- Download a Visual Collaboration free chapter
- Bigger Picture
- Visual Collaboration Academy
- Bigger Picture Video
- Get 100% off the Visual Collaboration Crash Course when you use coupon code MagicMike plus you will get access to a booklet with over 200 icons to use in any meeting, project or process. Join the free webinar series on Remote visual collaboration starting May 5th, 5pm CET.
- David Sibbet
- Dave Gray
- Sunni Brown
TOOLS
- Pilot G2 gel pen
- Moleskine Blank Notebook
- reMarkable Tablet
- iPad Pro
- Post-It Note
- ScannerPro
- Autodesk Sketchbook
- Microsoft Whiteboard
- Miro
- MURAL
- Google Jam Board
- Microsoft Surface Hub
CREDITS
- Producer: Alec Pulianas
- Show Notes: Chris Wilson
- Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer
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