Welcome to the Novo Nordisk Campus at Visual Collaboration Academy

Here you can find learning opportunities that has been selected and customized to ensure value for employees of Novo Nordisk.  

Want to stand out with a new title on your CV?

Visual Thinker

Make a visible difference at any meeting by mastering simple visual techniques to spice up your presentations and storytelling

Visual Facilitator

Meetings suck. Learn new tools and techniques for designing and facilitating face to face meetings and workshops. Achieve engagement and impact

Digital Facilitator 

Remote and hybrid meetings double suck. Take a leap into the new world of work. Learn how use MIRO to design and run meetings people actually enjoy 

Remote Visual Collaboration Master

 A seven session learning journey into a new way of working. Apply new skills and tools for designing and facilitating moments of impact in remote and hybrid meetings.

Learn online with peers, receive certificate and get life time membership to an international network of professionals.

Upcoming Courses

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What course participants say

Michele Seymour
Leadership Development Consultant
Balance Matters - United Kingdom

Thank you for your careful, patient and enthusiastic guidance through each step. The ability to visually design a team programme was great and thought provoking. I learnt how to think creatively and visually about getting teams connected in a more vibrant and effective way as it shortcuts many discussions seeing symbolically what is being discussed. 
Juergen Kleinstuber
Head of Strategic-, and Performance Programs
SAP - 
Germany

In this course I have learned how to design and facilitate inspiring and engaging online meetings and workshops. With the methods and tools presented in "Visual Collaboration" emotions, interaction and creativity is added to online meetings. Participants are able to see the thinking and ideas of each other. I am now using this method for preparing and running workshops and meetings about learning, sales, project set up, idea-creation and process definition.
Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou
Visiting Assistant Professor
MIT Media Lab USA / University of Zurich, Switzerland. 

What makes this course great is a combination of the facilitator, the content, the visuals, the pacing of the learning, the overall experience! I learnt a new framework of engaging visually with my topic of interest and making remote but also in-person meetings.

How to get started 

  1. Find a Novo Nordisk sellected course on this page
  2. Sign up to Visual Collaboration Academy
  3. Once signed in, pay for the course
  4. You course starts at the mentioned start time, or at once if On Demand.
  5. At any time make sure to look at what else the Academy has to offer. You can find free tools, monthly webinars and more. 

Included in all courses

Case work + peer coaching

Course participant works, presents and receives feedback and coaching from the other participants . 

Certificate

After having attended a course you receive a Certificate of Completion. 

Visual Tools

To ensure effective learning, courses use a lot of visual tools for presenting and collaborating. 

Learning Space

All participants will get access to a learning space with a lot of resources on visual collaboration. 

What is needed to attend courses

Two devices

You can attend courses with one device, but we recommend two. This allows everyone to see each other AND collaborate in our online workspace.

Teams

All live courses are held using Teams. Before a each session you will receive an invite with ID and password. A good camera and microphone is also needed. 

MIRO

The courses are delivered using  shared visual collaboration space. Prior experience with MIRO is recommended. Brush up your skills with these free MIRO tutorials.

Time

Make sure to set aside enough time to prepare, arrive and get tech working. Courses often has assignments you need to deliver in advance.

Reach out to Novo Nordisk LMS responsible Martin Linnet if you want to know more about the partnership between Novo Nordisk and Visual Collaboraiton Academy. 

Based on awarded and praisd method

The book "Visual Collaboration" serves as the foundation for the courses you will find here. All courses introduce you to the Five Building Blocks of Visual Collaboration and how they work together. 
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Winner at the Independent Press Awards for best design.

Bronze medal winner at the Axiom Business Book Awards.

Rated ☆☆☆☆☆ by leading Danish newspaper Børsen.

Praise

Nancy Duarte
CEO at Duarte.com and best-selling author Slideology
This book gives you the building blocks for meetings, processes or projects. It works as a new language for collaboration. In a world where we need tools and approaches to tackle our complex world this book can help you come up with solutions that work.
Olga Svyrydenko
Business Strategy Lead GlobalTraining Partner Program  Microsoft
In my current role at Microsoft I don’t have the luxury of working with people face to face, so we do a lot of joint visualizations on digital whiteboards while connecting team members from all parts of the world. Visual Collaboration provided an extremely helpful method for clarifying goals, working out joint plans and shared responsibilities, and avoiding cultural or language barriers in our teams
Donato Carparelli
Head Global Product Innovation, Schindler Elevator Ltd
Visual Collaboration is an inspiring guide for anyone who is interested in a more visual approach to organizing and hosting meetings and workshops. The book walks the reader step-by-step from discovering a new visual language to enabling others to work more visually. As a reader one doesn’t only find helpful hands-on tips but also inspirational templates which can be easily customized for any kind of meeting and workshop

Meet your instructors

Loa Baastrup
Co-author of Visual Collaboration
Loa designs and facilitates scale strategy processes and has trained more than 1000 people in visual facilitation. Loa is co-author Visual Collaboration.
Jacob Ackey Wolf
Designer, illustrator
Jacob is a designer and illustrator, with a masters in Play Design from Kolding Designskole. He can turn any idea or thought into visuals, whether it's on a stickie note or a virtual whiteboard.
Ole Qvist-Sørensen
Co-author of Visual Collaboration
Ole has more than 20 years of international experience in facilitating and assisting leadership teams in cultivating a more visual way of working. He is the co-author of Visual Collaboration.‍
Bettina Gulya
Process facilitator
Bettina is an experienced UX designer and trainer. She is based in Berlin where she on the side helps women with a refugee background develop their digital skills.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Visual Thinker 1

Make a visible difference any meeting by mastering how to use simple visual techniques to spice up your presentations and storytelling.

  • 4 hours live workshop
  • Max 24 particpants
  • Highly interactive
  • Instant feedback 
  • Immediate implementation  
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    Overview

    What we will cover in this course

    Why draw

    When we draw, we create clarity, and in a digital world, handmade drawings stand out

    Everybody can draw

    Drawing is an age-old discipline that we all can learn

    Discover your visual language

    We can rediscover our innate potential for drawing as we create simple illustrations, and connect words with picture

    Visual Facilitator 1

    Meetings suck. Learn new tools and techniques for designing and facilitating face to face, meetings and workshops that creates engagement and results.

    • 4 hours live workshop
    • Max 15 particpants
    • Highly interactive
    • Instant feedback 
    • Immediate implementation  
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    Overview

    What we will cover in this course

    Why facilitate with visuals

    Drawing together is a systematic approach to complexity management. 

    Design for engagement

    Preparing well for a process you want to facilitate will create a strong starting point for engaging participants and achieving good results.

    How to create impact

    When you have been involved in developing a
    visualization of a strategy or project, you know it
    inside and out.

    Digital Facilitator 1

    Remote and hybrid meetings double suck. Take a leap into the new world of work. Learn how use MIRO to design and run meetings people actually enjoy. 

    • 4 hours live workshop
    • Max 12 particpants
    • Highly interactive
    • Instant feedback 
    • Immediate implementation  
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    Overview

    What we will cover in this course

    New ways of working

    What tools are proving to help when meetings have moved online? 

    Tech facilitation

    How do we design and facilitate remote and hybrid meetings? what is the key role of technology?

    Virtual visualization

    How might visuals help everyone engage and contribute better when meeting remote?

    Remote Visual Collaboration Master

     A seven session learning journey into a new way of working. Apply new skills and tools for designing and facilitating moments of impact. Learn online with peers, receive certificate and get life time membership of an international network of professionals.

    • 7 Sessions of 3 hours live workshop
    • Max 12 particpants
    • Highly interactive
    • Instant feedback 
    • Immediate implementation between sessions  
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    Overview

    What we will cover in this course

    Strengthening collaboration

    When a team draws its goals, desires, and objectives, it becomes smarter and more focused.

    Working with complexity

    When people draw together, they learn together, and with a world in constant change, the ability to learn together is a necessity for ongoing success

    Reaching shared clarity

    In an increasing complex world, shared synthesis, overview and clarity is key. 
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    Introduction

    Learn more about the Visual Collaboration Masterclass and what to expect from the sessions. 

    Who is it for?

    Learn more about who we believe might benefit from attending this course. 
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    What will you learn?

    Get a sneak peek at what we will cover in the course and how case work and assignments play a part. 

    How is the course conducted?

    We will be using the best of what technology has to offer to create an engaging learning experience. Learn more about how. 
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