Visual Communication — Teaming With Ideas

Design Thinking Collaboration

I'm talking about matching to the task. You have this goal, and you have to construct whatever work unit is best able to fulfill that goal. If it's something where I'm trying to produce innovation then you want the sufficient and necessary perspectives that will actually help you to arrive at the answer or the innovation that you're after. Design thinking is basically trying to figure out, how do we take the team from divergent thinking to convergent thinking, people with a lot of diversity of opinions and perspectives - to align on something useful?

Team LeadershipCarlos Valdes-DapenaJuly 16, 2021Design Thinking, Academic Research, Visual CommunicationComment

Visual Facilitation

People have art trauma. Maybe in 3rd or 4th grade, a teacher said something about something they drew, and from that moment on they decided they were not good at drawing. And they’re going to hold onto that for their whole life. I have a 2-day Visual Facilitation Boot Camp that I teach. I’m so proud of people who come and say that they can’t draw, and sign up for this 2-day intense deep dive into drawing. And the truth is they can draw. The crazy thing is that they can, but they have this belief that they can’t. Are they going to be Leonardo DaVinci? Absolutely not. The number one thing I tell folks is it doesn’t have to be fancy to be effective. We’re not going for representational drawing, where I want you to draw exactly all the light hitting this coffee cup. I just want you to simplify it down to the basic lines so you’re communicating, “coffee cup.” That’s it.

Team CollaborationCarlos Valdes-DapenaJuly 13, 2021Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Visual Facilitation, Visual CommunicationComment