Turbocharge your presenting, facilitating, or idea generating with nothing more than a sharpie.
Do you want to turbo charge the way you communicate, and problem solve with ease? Would you like a highly productive way to strategize and explore ideas? Join this highly interactive session, where you’ll deep dive into brilliant shortcuts that can transform the way you communicate. And think you can't draw? That will change forever.
- Do you want to turbo charge the way you communicate, and problem solve with ease?
- Would you like to kickstart your ability to tell great stories?
- Are you keen to truly engage your stakeholders?
- Would you like a highly productive way to strategize and explore ideas?
If you answered yes to any of the above, join us for this highly interactive session, where you’ll deep dive into brilliant shortcuts that can transform the way you engage with and communicate change with your customers and significantly, put information in a way that neuroscience tells us our brain loves. Most importantly, anyone can do this. That’s right, absolutely anyone (no matter what you think your level of ability is!) That’s a promise.
Who should attend:
Anyone wanting to take their facilitation and communication to another level. Whilst the program is specifically focused on drawing and using this for storytelling and problem solving, the principles can be used across a whole array of visual communication.
Topics Covered
- The Neuroscience of why our brain loves visual communication
- The no.1 thing that kills people’s ability to draw
- How to see the world in shapes so you can literally draw whatever you like
- How to create empathy by drawing people in your visual communication (goodbye stick figure!)
- How to use colour to create easy to follow flow charts and diagrams
- Simple strategy diagrams that cut through all the clutter
- How to use visual communication to make the complex simple and develop great stories
Learning Outcomes:
- Take your own workshops to another level
- Developing a new way of thinking – what does that look like?
- Learning to draw what you see, not what you think you see!
- The confidence to stand up in front of a room and say ‘let me draw that’
- Demystify complex concepts with visual elements
- Communicate with key stakeholders more efficiently
- Be able to easily prototype an idea using design thinking principles
- Stop killing your audience with PowerPoint
- Easily explain concepts in a workshop setting
Course experience
The program is highly practical and hands on. Participants are taught a technique and they then practice and apply it to explore further in a context that is important to them.
Delegates will leave with a tool kit covering all course material, a resource guide for in person and digital facilitation and a hot to guide for drawing over 30 icons.
Facilitator
Simon Banks
Author & Keynote Speaker on Creativity, Innovation & Design
Simon Banks is an author, podcaster and international speaker on creativity, innovation and design and a happily recovering artist. He describes his geek out spot as the intersection of creativity and design, learning, people and passion which he sees as essential building blocks for future leaders and developing an innovative culture. His Big Why? To build a more creative world to enable people and business to thrive in the Modern Age.
Simon has substantial experience, with over 1400+ events facilitated across Europe, Asia, America and Australia across a diverse array of sectors and organisations. He’s worked to bring fresh thinking and innovation out of teams in companies that include: EY; Laing O’Rourke; NAB; Geoscience Australia; University of Technology Sydney; Carat Media, The Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science; and Volkswagen to name a few.
Simon lives and breathes creativity. He has exhibited his art across the globe, has lectured at the National Gallery of England and developed programs for institutions such as The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, The Sydney Fringe Festival and Vivid Festival and continues to have a foot firmly planted in both the creative and corporate worlds. (It’s his secret special sauce for empowering people to think differently)
Simon is the author of A Thousand Little Lightbulbs: How to kickstart a culture of Innovation in your Organisation and co-host of The Occupational Philosophers: A not-so-serious business podcast to spark imagination, curiosity, and creativity.
And yes, the question that everyone asks, all drawings in his presentations are his.
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Certified Practicing Marketers can register 16 PMP Points at this workshop
