Need better ideas?

Try Graphic Facilitation in your next meeting!

Pressure of innovations?

Lack of collaboration?

What is Graphic Facilitation?

Making ideas seen A series of processes to drive collaborative discussion

Graphic Facilitation

Graphic Facilitation

By visualizing ideas and properly-designed processes: ● The issue can be analyzed systematically from multiple perspectives ● People can make better solutions from collaborative discussions ● They are more engaged to take actions

Why Graphic Facilitation?

Really simple drawing skills + Problem-solving games will be used to achieve your different tasks. Workshops run from 2 hours to 2 days at your locations. Professional graphic facilitators will lead the workshops in energetic and interactive ways!

How does it work?

Visual thinking = 80% of our brain power! By drawing things out, people will have: ● Clearer understanding of ideas, processes, comparisons

and relationships ● Deeper memory ● More creative ideas ● Higher level of participation ● More fun!

Remember, human are visual animals!

What are its advantages?

Break free from endless powerpoint at meetings More engaged around a strategy,

vision and goal

Create breakthrough meetings and brainstorming

So, how can it benefit my team?

Part 1:

Getting started

with the basic

Warm up game 5 min.

Basic drawing skills 15 min.

Part 2:

Where are we

from?

Recap our history, challenge, competence and vision

with the help of Journey Vision mapping 40 min.

Part 3:

Where are we

heading to?

Idea Gallery: Post-it idea generation “One team 2013”,

sorting and reflection 40 min.

World Cafe: Discussing some possible 2013 priorities based

on the output from Idea Gallery 60 min.

Town Hall Discussion: The teams take turns to present their

2013 priorities; See if any pattern or consensus can be

reached

30 min.

Part 4:

Laying the game

plan ahead

Draw the conclusion on one Big Picture

30 min.

Buffer 20 min.

Total Time About 4 hr.

How is it done?

Here is an example of a half-day game plan discussion workshop:

What can it do for us?

Visioning and Game Plan Design Example: A group of healthcare managers use graphic facilitation to find out their project vision and design the specific steps to achieve it.

Brainstorming Example: Engineers from a tech giant learn graphic facilitation for their R&D discussions, so as to boost more high quality ideas and drive better collaboration across functional teams.

Client Engagement Example: Executives from a media agency adopt graphic facilitation skills in their pitch presentation, in order to better engage their clients and win more business.

Try it in your next meeting?

Urban Paintmob is a creativity training company in Shanghai that aims to inspire people with art-based action learning programmes.

We provide a lot of novel and interesting training activities to the corporate world and NPOs. For example: ● “Big Picture” team-building games ● “Doodling for work” graphic facilitation training ● “Creative thinking and brainstorming” courses ● Many others!

Talk to us if you have any idea!