Over the last weekend I completed two strategic planning sessions with non-profit boards, the Family Violence Project and Intrepid Theatre. I have piles and piles of charts to put the finishing touches on, but before I do that I wanted to do some reflection on how these sessions went. Share and Enjoy:
I’ve completed three graphic facilitation/recording engagements in the past two weeks, and my ears are starting to pop from the vertical gain on this learning curve. Along with the lessons learned in on-the-fly visual listening, I’m starting to develop quite the little collection of paraphernalia for photographing my charts. In the past month I’ve acquired [...]
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When I learned about meeting graphics we were introduced to a broad range of chart types, featuring mostly templates from the Grove Consultants. Having pioneered the field, their line of templates is thorough, well-researched and tested, and well documented for leaders. The other thing they are is Expensive. Returning to Victoria and starting out with [...]
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Ahhh a fresh new calendar year. What will 2009 bring you? Since 1999 I have been setting yearly resolutions, and for the most part I’ve kept them. I stay away from habitual matters such as diet and exercise, and focus more on one important thing I want to make happen each year, for example the [...]
Just before Christmas I did a phone coaching session with a client. We reflected on where he’s come from in 2008 and where he would like to see himself at the close of 2009. I have done two versions of this graphic but only scanned one so far (I’ll add the other in a few [...]
