Welcome to
Visual Collaboration Academy
Curated courses for the Maersk employee
Learn to run meetings, projects and processes that are more engaging, efficient, and impactful.
Visual Thinker
Visual Facilitator
Online Facilitator
Remote Visual Collaboration Master
What 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.
Head of Strategic-, and Performance Programs
SAP - Germany
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
MIT Media Lab USA
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
Included in all courses
Case work + peer coaching
We work, test, present, and receive feedback and coaching from each other.
Visual Tools
We use powerful visual tools to ensure effective learning and skill building.
Learning Space
We use predesigned learning spaces to host and harvest our learnings.
Certificate
We use certification as documentation for your new found capabilities.
What you need to attend
Equipment
If you have a big screen with a good camera and sound, you are all set for a great learning experience.
Teams
We use Teams. Before the course you will receive an invite with ID and password.
MIRO
We use MIRO, our shared visual collaboration space. Brush up your skills with these MIRO tutorials before the course.
Time
Set aside time to prepare, get the tech working, and arrive. Courses often have pre-assignments.
Get started with a chapter of the
Visual Collaboration book
Visual Collaboration book
Winner at the Independent Press Awards for best design.
Bronze medal winner at the Axiom Business Book Awards.
Rated ☆☆☆☆☆ by leading Danish newspaper Børsen.
What the readers say
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.
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
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 large scale strategy processes and has trained more than 1500 people in Visual Collaboration Loa is co-author of Visual Collaboration.
Jacob Ackey Wolf
Designer, illustrator
Jacob is a designer and illustrator with a master's in Play Design from DSKD. He can turn any idea into engaging visuals that resonate.
Ole Qvist-Sørensen
Co-author of Visual Collaboration
Ole has 20+ years of international experience in assisting leadership teams in cultivating a more visual way of working.
Ole is co-author of Visual Collaboration.
Ole is co-author of Visual Collaboration.
Bettina Gulya
Process facilitator
Bettina is a highly experienced UX designer and trainer. She is a master at getting anyone back on track if devices tease or tools freeze.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Visual Thinker 1
Make a visible difference any meeting by mastering how to use simple visual techniques to spice up your presentations and storytelling.
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What we will cover in this course
Why draw
Drawing sets you free since you are not bound to visuals, icons, and templates that already exist.
Everybody can draw
You will learn to create drawings you never thought possible with simple tips, tricks, and tools.
Your professional visual language
We can create a visual language tailored directly to your area of expertise.
Visual Facilitator 1
Learn to design and facilitate purpose-driven and impactful meetings & workshops. Your peers will be eager to participate.
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What we will cover in this course
Why visuals work
Drawing together is a systematic approach to managing complexity.
Design for engagement
Achieve good results by preparing your process in one big picture.
How to create impact
Real change happens when you know what the journey looks like and where to start it.
Digital Facilitator 1
Leap into the new world of work by learning how to use MIRO to design and run remote and hybrid meetings that are both effective and fun.
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What we will cover in this program
New ways of working
Serious life hacks to reach the full potential of your online meetings and workshops.
Tech facilitation
For the pro tech facilitator, technology is just tools. The meeting content is the focus.
Virtual visualization
How to cultivate active participation and collaboration by using simple visualization.
Remote Visual Collaboration Master
Take a learning journey into a new way of working. Learn to apply new skills and tools for designing and facilitating moments of impact in any remote or hybrid setting. You learn with peers. You become a certified Visual Collaborator. You get a lifelong membership to an international network of professionals.
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What we will cover in this program
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
Strengthening collaboration
When a team draws its goals, desires, and objectives, it becomes smarter and more focused.
Reaching shared clarity
Shared synthesis, overviews, and clarity are vital in an increasingly complex world.
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