Small business owners and entrepreneurs rarely, if ever, get a “time-out” for thinking about the big picture of their life and business. The go-go-go habit is quite addictive, involving all sorts of factors like adrenaline, drive, ambition, fear, passion… the list goes on. These are all GOOD things except sometimes we can start to feel [...]
On Tuesday I led a brainstorming session for a group of store managers of a travel agency company. It was part of their monthly “team leaders” meeting, held at the area manager’s house.
Here are the charts… this demonstrates how a simple graphic exercise can help a group with “divergent” work – coming up with lots [...]
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Today I did a visual planning session with Jeff Ward, the creative and technical mind behind Animikii and YikeSite. We were mapping out a shift in marketing focus/positioning for YikeSite, from targeting individuals who want their own websites to targeting independent web designers/developers who need simple hosted CMS’s for their clients.
Jeff was running a stop-time [...]
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This gigantic white foamcore board stuck to my office wall is a dominating feature of my workspace. From where I sit at my computer it is a constant looming presence, in a good way. It reminds me when I am working on day to day tasks that I can work in a visual mode whenever [...]
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Somebody asked me today about what is the value an organization would get from doing strategic planning, especially this “fun” visual planning that I’m offering. GOOD QUESTION MEL! Thanks!
First of all, strategic planning is a really important exercise to any group of people who are responsible for taking action towards a goal. It’s especially important [...]
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Yesterday morning, I worked with Paul and Sheila in a Visual Life Planning session at my office. Paul and Sheila are warm, loving people who have travelled far and wide, and each of them is committed to leading a fully evolved and self-actualized life. They’ve been looking for a way to pull together the various [...]
