2-day in-person training workshop
Visual Facilitation Skills
Supercharge your meeting leadership skills, and help improve your team’s direction and focus.
Registrations closed
Dates
16-17 October 2024
Location
Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
Price
€1,290
Draw out the best in your people
Direction
Proven visual strategy and change frameworks to use straight away
Innovation
Methods for solving complex challenges in more creative ways
Planning
Tricks and templates to get teams and stakeholders on the same page
Culture
Facilitation power moves to harness conflict and tricky behaviours
Unlock your team’s genius
This immersive training course is ideal for:
- Managers
who want to boost their collaborative leadership - Team Leaders, Design Leaders and Dev Leaders
who want to improve their teams’ ways of working - Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters
who want to make team rituals more dynamic - Facilitators and Consultants
who want to add more tools to their existing toolkit - Product Managers and Product Owners
who want to drive team performance
Packed with more value than your typical training
- 2 full days of in-depth action-packed collaborative learning
- Time for focused discussions and activities to help you reflect and bring back more insight to your own work
- Visual templates, activities and other goodies to use with your team after the training
- Be encouraged by your community of like-minded change-makers, cage-shakers and visual activists!
What’s more, as a group you will also co-create your very own Visual Facilitation Playbook, based on what everyone learns, to take back and use with your own team!
Training workshop outline
This training takes you beyond the basics of agendas and icons, and into more advanced facilitation methods for strategy and change management.
Day 1
👋 Setting the scene
Introductions, agenda walk-through, materials and expectations
🤔 What is visual facilitation?
We’ll level-set on what visual facilitation is, and gain a deeper understanding of the importance of facilitation and visualisation in helping teams get the meeting outcomes they need.
You’ll get started with markers and gain an introduction to the visual elements you’ll need to kick off your visual facilitation journey.
👀 Context - sensing and responding
No team, sprint, product or project exists in isolation. In this section, you’ll learn how to help your team:
- Deal with ‘group amnesia’ and capitalise on what is learned
- Embrace and deal with conflict and resistance positively
- See and address any ‘elephants in the room’
- Get more value out of the meetings you’e already running
🏆 Aspiration - setting visions, defining success
Reseach shows that ambitions made visual are more likely to be achieved. How do you create and visualise a vision together, in line with business strategy, and in a way that everyone involved has ‘skin in the game’? In this section you’ll learn how to:
- Increase ownership in your team
- Get the right people involved and speaking up at the right time in the right ways
- Get authentic alignment and make decisions together faster, by making goals and decisions visible
- Keep your team energised and motivated
Day 2
💡 Solution - making the right thing
Brainstorming done well helps your team to find opportunities, generate ideas, and make creative choices for effective strategy and change management. In this section you’ll learn how to:
- Define, visualise and/or reframe the problem to be solved, to generate better problem statements
- Understand four types of creativity, and when to flex which type at the right time with the right people
- Deal with tricky behaviours when generating and prioritising ideas
➡️ Execution - working with heart and purpose
Visuals help teams to get a better view on the more intangible ‘people’ aspects of work – like dependencies and culture issues – so that your team can focus on doing their best work together. In this section, you’ll learn how to:
- Understand your team’s group dynamics, and how to use these dynamics to everyone’s advantage
- Help any team diagnose themselves, get healthy and stay healthy
- How to get clear roles and responsibilities (who ‘owns’ what...?)
- Build greater trust amongst team members
📙 Wrapping up
It’s important that we do everything we can to help this training convert into action and positive impact. So to help with that, we will create a Visual Facilitation Playbook together, for you to take back to your team!
Fire up your flipcharts!
You will use visual facilitation techniques and templates to:
- Organise conversations visually, so everyone can easily see where the meeting is going
- Reframe, clarify and summarise information, so everyone will have a shared understanding faster
- Get your team thinking, listening and creating – no more vague unproductive talkfests!
What others like you have said
I had the pleasure of attending Facilitation Skills for Agile Professionals, and it was truly fantastic! Not only did I gain valuable skills, but I also had the opportunity to connect with some amazing individuals.
Lucia Viszlaiova
I attended a live session last year where Olina was one of the trainers of the Drawify team. Highly recommended!
Sasksia Smet
I actually recognised a Hippo last week here while talking to a colleague. He encountered one and needed to talk about it, so I took out my playbook and came to the rescue! 😁
Kenny Darmadji
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Meet your instructors
Ben Crothers
Master Facilitator, Creator of Atlassian Team Playbook, Author of Presto Sketching
Ben is from Sydney, Australia, and is renowned for his strategic facilitation, business illustration, and graphic recording. As a designer for over 25 years, he learned the importance of harnessing creativity, experimentation and learning, and whip-smart communication, to create products and services that are more usable, useful and enjoyable.
This background has made him an in-demand facilitator for over 15 years. As an independent consultant at Bright Pilots, he enjoys helping teams of all kinds find and solve problems better, think and communicate together better, and ship faster. Ben has been invested in better ways of working since 2010, and was one of the original creators of the much-loved Atlassian Team Playbook. He is also the author of Presto Sketching, as well as Draw in 4 and 50 Remote-Friendly Icebreakers.
Olina Glindevi
Highly regarded Agile Coach and Team Trainer, Director of The Visual Agile Coach
Olina hails from Stockholm, Sweden, and is a creative visual thinker, communicator and coach who specialises in Agile ways of working. At her consultancy The Visual Agile Coach, she helps people and organizations leverage the power of visuals for improved communication, engagement and delivery of value. Her deep experience in Agile roles – including Agile Coach and Scrum Master – combined with her creative and artistic qualities, has allowed her to develop new ways to raise engagement in teams, creating productive and fun work experiences.
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The Visual Facilitation Skills 2-day training course will be held at a venue near public transport in the heart of Berlin, Germany. Stay tuned for more details!
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This training course gives you access to:
- 2 full days of in-depth action-packed collaborative learning
- Time for focused Q&A and hands-on activities
- Templates and other goodies to use with your team after the training
- Be encouraged by your community of like-minded change-makers, cage-shakers and visual activists!
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