Today I want to share a video about the key skills of workshop facilitation. Actually it’s not really a proper video, just a couple of slides. But the voiceline is quite interesting. Please click the thumbnail on the left side to find the key skills at a glance. I hope you find that video useful to become a phantastic facilitator.
Found at youtube.com
Do you have ideas in your mind, but you don’t know how to visualize and share them? Maybe I have a solution for your problem. On exploratree.org you can find a set of different templates to visualize your ideas. Using these tools as thinking guide, you can structure your vague ideas and get them to the point.
Just go to the page, have a closer look at the tools and let me know what you think about it. Are they helpful to structure ideas? Would you use these online tools to share business ideas with your colleagues? Do the templates require special knowledge or are they self-explaining?
I was playing with the templates a little bit and wrote down the plus and minus points of the tool. Click at the picture to see my findings.
Presenting information in a clear and time saving way is the skill for us IT-folks to develop and nurture. Today Lokesh Dhakar shows us what condensing and visualizing to the point can look like.
We proudly present his blueprints for what I would call CAL (Coffee Layer Architecture) (click to enlarge):
Isn’t this great? You get a lot of important information in one view:
What would it take to accomplish this with pure text? Would you (want to) read it?
You can find the whole set and sizes on flickr.
No special reason for this post. I just found this photos documenting the result of a two day agile retrospective session we facilitated some time ago and wanted to share the »agile beauty« ;o)
Visual Facilitation is one of our favourite tools to handle todays information overload and get creativity going.
I love to introduce people to things I like so I’m always looking for examples which are not to difficult to explain but nevertheless show what’s it all about.
In this regard I found something perfect on Andy Bragerbecks site: A graphical facilitation of Barack Obamas inauguration speech drawn while the speech being held. Though I didn’t hear the speech myself I now vividly can imagine what was going on.
What about you? Does the graphic speak to you or would you rather prefer an abridged textual version?
Can you imagine a strategic visioning workshop not resulting in a lengthy report but in an image like this? If so don’t hesitate! Begin tomorrow and explore the world of Visual Facilitation!
Edit: Thanks to Achim for his facilitated comment (pdf)!
