Making use of "Big picture thinking", participants learn how to create higher levels of involvement with their clients. With a Hands•On approach, students create their own templates to support stages of facilitation. We practice fluidity in visual thinking in tandem with icon development. These skills help facilitators stimulate complex and interactive communication. We practice translating complex, highly technical information into easy-to understand messages. With the directed use of visual tools, facilitators can promote involvement, memorability and guide highly effective meetings.

Business Scenario Storyboarding techniques can be used in a variety of contexts to depict:

• The central themes of complex business/organizational issues

• Results of strategic conversations

• Team Dynamics

• SWOT Analysis

• Customer issues

• Complex interactions

• Process steps; program phases

• Scenario views: different plausible future states/strategies

• Systematic frameworks

• Decision and Risk scenarios

• Competitive positioning

Business Scenario Storyboarding is a synthesis of graphic skills, visual process thinking and facilitation skills. Our practical approach covers layout techniques applicable for posters, handouts and learning maps. Practice and feedback sessions utilize participant material. Our goal is to help participants apply these tools to defined work processes with ease, comfort and skill.

Interactive graphic facilitation adds maximum impact and effectiveness to your knowledge toolkit. Learning to use visual instruments in meeting facilitation will significantly enhance:

• Individual participation

• Group communication

• Collaborative creativity

• Interactive records of dialogue

• Quality group thinking and decision making

• Collective understanding and commitment to implement decisions

We focus on techniques for mapping which are directly applicable to strategic business conversations. Participants will learn to:

• To organize information for visual impact

• Promote group interaction in meetings

• Apply storyboarding skills and techniques to strategic conversations

• Communicate business issues for collective clarity

• Apply select visual instruments to support group process

Business Scenario Storyboarding has a high instructor to participant ratio for maximum personalized coaching. The format of this course is highly experiential in a lively, supportive atmosphere. Participants learn to apply visual instruments to support varied group processes.