Visual Collaboration Masterclass

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Course features
  • Live sessions: 24½ hours
  • Level: Advanced
  • Assignments: 6
  • Bonus material: Plenty
  • Exams: 1
  • Study time: 14 hours
Course overview
Learn how to design and facilitate meetings, workshops and courses using visual skills and tools. 

Develope unique tools and concepts for your specific context. 
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GET THE CertificatE
80 points of 100 required to receive the Visual Collaboration Signature Course Certificate. 

Are you running remote meetings, workshops or classes and need ways to work smarter, engage more and reach results faster? 

Is your
collaboration style narrow-band or broadband?


This is the longest text you will find here. 
Everyting else is more visuals.
But please read it carefully. 
It is important. 

When people work together, online or offline, most communication is based on words, spoken or written. Speaking, writing and reading are examples of narrow-band communication at a speed of about 30-50 bits per second. It takes minutes or even hours to explain a complex concept or system, and to react to it by asking questions or expressing opinions.

Visual communication is wide-band. A picture actually does say more than a thousand words, and a complex concept can be visualised in a way that allows people to grasp it within seconds. This is because the bandwidth of visual communication may be tens, hundreds or even thousands times wider than narrow-band speaking, writing or reading.

Turning collaboration in your organisation from narrow-band to wide-band has potential to both speed up your work, to make your work much more creative, and much more fun. Fortunately that does not come easily. Otherwise everyone would do it, and you would have no competitive edge.

Visual collaboration must be learned, just like a foreign language.

With this program you have chosen NOT to go on using narrow-band collaboration. This will set you appart from your competitors. You will soon be working several times faster, plus several times more creatively than most other teams. They will simply be left behind.

Welcome to the Masterclass!

Designed to for business critical skills 

This Masterclass is designed to also cultivate these business critical skills: 

Apply a digital mindset

  • Embrace and master new technology and digital tools, improve digital knowledge, skills, and mindset.
  • Collaborate with colleagues to share best practices and tips for utilizing digital tools effectively
  • Be at the forefront of exploring and strategically applying new digital trends.

Lead a complex organization

  • Drive and facilitate change in a professional and effective way, while making bold, clear and timely choices to minimize trade-offs and complexity.
  • Asks the right questions to accurately analyze situations.
  • Acquire insights and input from multiple and diverse sources when solving problems.

Drive vision and purpose

  • Paint compelling pictures of any purpose and strategy in such a way it motivates others to action and clarifies the ‘why’ for everyone.
  • Articulate visions in ways that everyone can engage in, relate to and share.
  • Create organization-wide energy and optimism for the future.

Collaborate with stakeholders

  • Form teams with appropriate and diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and experience.
  • Establish common objectives and a shared mindset.
  • Create a feeling of belonging and strong team morale.
  • Foster open dialogue and collaboration among the team.

Communicate effectively

  • Develop and deliver messages that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
  • Be effective in a variety of communication settings: one-on-one, small and large groups, or among diverse styles and position levels. 
  • Attentively listens to others and adjust messaging to fit the audience.
  • Encourage open expression of diverse ideas and opinions.

Cultivate Innovation

  • Come up with and communicate useful ideas that are new, better, or unique.
  • Bring in diverse thinking and varied approaches to promote and nurture innovation.
  • Explore new ways of looking at problems.
  • Find and champion the best creative ideas.
  • Engage and build excitement in others for new ideas and exploring creative options.

Build effective diverse teams

  • Form teams with appropriate and diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and experience.
  • Establish common objectives and a shared mindset.
  • Create a feeling of belonging and strong team morale.
  • Foster open dialogue and collaboration among the team.

What participants say about the program

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. This kind of transparency not only help participants connect with one another in a different way, it is also much easier to remember later. 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.

Course Learning Space

 We use this "Course Ecosystem" as visual learning space to support the learning before, during and after the Masterclass. 

Course Overview

Discover how to...

Handle complexity by drawing, collecting, and connecting.
Strengthen collaboration through creating transparent processes and robust decisions.
Reach shared clarity through social synthesis and co-creating visual maps and overviews. 
Work in a more visual way in virtual meetings (what setup, skills and tools).
Setup, prepare and facilitate face to face, online  and hybrid processes.
Visually think through any moment of impact and increase its value for yourself and all participants.
Create a visual language and templates specific for your online context.

...and change the way you engage with customers

During the program you will in groups design tools and concepts for the work you do in your team for your customers.

The tools can be used in online and offline work. 

Example shown: Flexible board designs in MURAL.

What you need to attend

Equipment

You need a camera, a good microphone and preferably two screens. We also recommend using mouse.

Teams

We run the courses using Teams. Before each session you receive an invite with ID and password. 

MURAL

We use the digital whiteboard Mural to run the program. Prior experience with MURAL is essential.

Pen & Paper

We often use simple sketching to prototype and communicate ideas. No prior skills required.

Time

Set aside time to prepare, get the tech working, and arrive. Courses often have pre-assignments. 

Included in the program

Case work & peer learning

Throughout the course you will in pairs and groups work, presents and receive feedback from your team members. 

Certificate

After having attended all sessions and handed in the all assignments, you receive our Certificate of Completion. 

Visual Overviews

Each session is delivered using structured visual interactive overviews of the shared learning journey.  

24/7

In between sessions the workspace is open. Participants an groups have their own working areas and can continue the learning anytime. 
Our book "Visual Collaboration" serves as the foundation for the courses. You will learn about the Five Building Blocks and how they work together. 
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Every participant will prior to the program receive a package with materials for the course. 

Meet your instructors

Loa Baastrup

Co-author of Visual Collaboration and 
Strategy Consultant  
Loa designs and facilitates large-scale strategy processes where the many need to be engaged or the few need to reach clarity or agreement around crucial decisions.

Ole Qvist-Sørensen

Co-author of Visual Collaboration and
Strategy Consultant  
Ole is assisting global leadership teams in reaching their mission by building the foundation for how to literally work with a big-picture mindset and cultivating a more visual way of working.
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