Visual Collaboration 
Team 15 [LIVE]

Embark on a journey into a new way of working. Strenghten your thinking, communication, and collaboration by learning skills and tools for designing and facilitating engaging moments of impact. Walk away better equipped to tackle complexity, reach clarity, and create solutions. Faster. Together. 
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Is your
collaboration style narrow-band or broadband?


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Everyting else is more visuals.
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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.

You may choose to go on using narrow-band collaboration, but imagine that your competitors were working several times faster than you, plus several times more creatively. You will be left behind.

If you choose to turn your organisation's collaboration from narrow-band to wide-band, let's talk. This Masterclass might be for you.

What you need to attend

Two Devices

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

Teams

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

MIRO

We deliver the course in a shared visual collaboration space. No prior experience with Miro is needed. We recommend taking some of their free online tutorials before.

Personal Case

 This is an intensive course. On top of the 3 hours you need for each session we recommend setting aside 2-3 hours after for follow up and work on assignments given.

Time

 This is an intensive course. On top of the 3 hours you need for each session we recommend setting aside 2-3 hours after for follow up and work on assignments given.

Who should attend?

Learn more about who we believe might benefit from attending this course. 
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LIVE Modules

Our Course Space

The course will take place online using this virtual space using Miro.
Feel free to look around. Use your mouse to move, and zoom in and out.  

What will you learn?

Get a sneak peak at what we will cover in the course and how case work and assignments plays a part. 
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What will you learn?

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

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. 
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.

How do you participate?

We will be using the best of what technology has to offer to create an engaging learning experience. Learn more about how in this video. 
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How do you participate?

We will be using the best of what technology has to offer to create an engaging learning experience. Learn more about how in this video. 
The foundation for this course is our book "Visual Collaboration". In the course we will cover each of the Five Building Blocks. We  recommend that you order the book before the course and have it with you for each session.  
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Take aways

How you can work in a more visual way in virtual meetings (what setup, skills and tools)
How you can work in a more visual way in virtual meetings (what setup, skills and tools)
How to setup, prepare and facilitate online processes
How to setup, prepare and facilitate online processes
How to visually think through any moment of impact and increase its value for yourself and those participating
How to visually think through any moment of impact and increase its value for yourself and those participating
How to create a visual language and templates specific for your online context
How to create a visual language and templates specific for your online context

Included in the training

Case work and peer to peer learning

Throughout the course each participant works, presents and receives feedback and coaching from the other participants . 

Certificate

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

Visual Overviews

We deliver the course in a shared visual collaboration space. No prior experience with MURAL is needed, but we do recommend taking some of their free online tutorials before.

Whiteboard workspace

This is an intensive course. On top of the 3 hours you need for each session we recommend setting aside 2-3 hours after for follow up and work on assignments given.

Instructors

Bettina Gulya

Bettina is an experienced UX designer and trainer. She is heading up the Visual Collaborators CLUB and our Academy community.

Jacob Ackey Wolf

Jacob is a designer and illustrator, with a masters in Play Design. He can turn any sketch into a visually apealing icon or landscape. 

Loa Baastrup

Loa Baastrup is CEO of Bigger Picture delivering strategic communication and facilitation services. She is co-author of Visual Collaboration 

Ole Qvist-Sørensen

Ole Qvist-Sørensen, MA, is a founder and partner at Bigger Picture, a consulting firm specializing in strategy communication and visual facilitation. He is co-author of Visual Collaboration.
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