1-day in-person training workshop
Visual Strategy Facilitation Skills
Supercharge your strategy meetings, and help your strategy gather momentum, not gather dust.
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Date
Wednesday 2 October
Location
Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰
Price
€650
Get everyone on the same page, by drawing that page
Learn how to supercharge your strategic planning meetings, and communicate strategy in more compelling ways, with your own strategy on a page.
Drawing skills
Simple but powerful ways to draw elements of strategy
Analytical skills
Templates and methods to sort the signal from the noise
Facilitation skills
Tricks and tips to run better strategy meetings
Persuasion skills
Techniques to get your stakeholders aligned and happy
Unlock your strategic genius
This immersive training day is ideal for:
- Senior Leaders, Project Managers and Change Managers
who want to boost their influence and strategic leadership skills - Team Leaders
who want to bridge the gap from your organisation’s strategy to their roadmap - Business analysts
who have to simplify and communicate masses of complex information - Facilitators and Consultants
who want to add more tools to their existing toolkit - Product Managers and Product Owners
who want to boost product storytelling skills
Packed with more value than your typical training
You get:
- 1 full day of in-depth action-packed collaborative learning
- Time to apply what you learn to your own work to help you reflect and take action
- 15 visual template PDFs to use with your team after the training
- A top-notch drawing kit to set you up for ongoing success
Plus, get the Training Upgrade:
- The Visual Project Management Workbook
- Presto Sketching
- 1 hour post-training coaching session to help you make the most of your new skills
Valued at €550, for only €250 extra!
Training workshop outline
This training takes you beyond the regular templates and flipcharts, and into more advanced visualisation and graphic facilitation methods. Learn how to turn the complexity of business strategy into clarity and action, using visual thinking, graphic facilitation, and strategic storytelling skills.
Works with Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, PMBoK, 6 Sigma, Waterfall, and just about any other way of working. No drawing skill needed.
Morning
Afternoon
👋 Setting the scene
- Introductions, agenda walk-through, materials and expectations.
🚑 Let’s fix strategy!
- Warm-ups and discussions: the common problems with formulating, communicating, and executing strategy, and how visualising strategy can help.
- Discussions and examples: strategy is both a product and a process, and how visuals help throughout the process and as products.
✍️ Drawing the elements of strategy
- Drawing some common real-world objects and conceptual elements often used in strategic conversations and communications.
- Drawing visual metaphors used in strategy.
- Seeking out, using, and building upon common language, common experience, common values, and common metaphors.
💎 Drawing your strategy on a page
Drawing a range of different templates and patterns to visualise strategic concepts:
- Strategic storytelling - mapping current state, future state, and reasons for change.
- Strategy and systems - mapping the elements of businesses, products, services, customers, and markets as a system.
- Strategy and teams - mapping the people, behaviours and capabilities needed to execute on strategy.
Matching visual patterns to your needs
- Long-term envisioning
- Transformation and change
- Success definition, planning and tracking progress
- Customer experience strategy
- Team health and culture
🖼️ Your turn: your strategy on a page
- Drawing your own strategy on a page, based on the patterns and templates we have been using so far.
- In pairs, presenting your strategy, and giving feedback to each other about how to improve it.
🏢 Doing strategy as a team
- Using templates and patterns to co-design strategy with teams and stakeholders.
- Doing strategy as a flow of coordinated tasks, not just one strategy offsite.
- Handling remote and hybrid strategy co-design meetings.
✨ Presenting your strategy
- Using strategy on a page visuals instead of big long Powerpoint slide decks.
📙 Wrapping up
- Reflecting on everything we’ve learned, and taking steps to implement some new ways of thinking and working.
Draw your way out of these common problems
You and your team don’t have to suffer these problems anymore:
- Unproductive offsites and other strategy meetings, with nothing to show for all the talk
- Spending way too long making strategy decks that are hard to understand and remember
- Not enough alignment with decision-makers and stakeholders
What others like you have said about this training
Learning how to draw does not have to be a scary thing. Drawing at work using basic forms is something that everyone should master to be better communicators. Loved the content and interactivity. Ben is attentive, inclusive and full of great examples.
Kat
Customer Transformation Program Manager
Highly recommend this course to business leaders and facilitators to bring their approach to strategy alive.
Andrew Bird, Director
Foundstone Advisory
In three words: immediate utility and clarity. Ben’s delivery is welcoming and enthusiastic, and Ben shows incredible knowledge about the subject. I keep coming back to Ben’s courses; I learn more than struggling with most books.
Mark Woodyatt, Head of Operations
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.
Christina Hemmingsen
Certified High Performance Coach, highly accomplished Project Manager, Instructional Designer and Visual Facilitator.
Christina’s extensive experience in project management and conceptual visualisation across a broad range of industries and disciplines has given her an incredible ability to help any team not only solve complex challenges, but craft the best way of working to reach their desired solution.
As a trainer and facilitator, Christina is famous for knowing when to take the lead, versus standing back and supporting a team quietly, and always with great curiosity and creativity. Expect tons of energy and smiles when Christina’s around!
Join us in Copenhagen!
The Visualise Your Strategy 1-day training course will be held on Wednesday 2nd October, at MBK’s fantastic premises in central Copenhagen, just 5 minutes from Nørreport on foot, just behind Rundetårn.
Location:
Pilestræde 61
1112 Copenhagen
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€650
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The Visual Strategy Facilitation Skills training course gives you access to:
- Hands-on activities and Q&A, to apply what you learn to your own work straight away
- 15 visual template PDFs to use with your team after the training
- A top-notch drawing kit to set you up for ongoing success
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