1-day in-person training workshop
Visual Strategy Facilitation Skills
Supercharge your strategy meetings, and help your strategy gather momentum, not gather dust.
Register now Hurry! Closes 13 September
Two dates to choose from
10 October or 11 October 2024
Location
Nijkerk, The Netherlands 🇾🇪
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 World of Visual Facilitation - in hard copy and e-book formats
- Presto Sketching - in hard copy and PDF formats
- 1 hour post-training coaching session to help you make the most of your new skills
Valued at €550, for only €300 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.
Jeroen Blijsie
Highly accomplished trainer, visual facilitator, author of The World of Visual Facilitation and founder of The Visual Connection
Jeroen works with clients across a broad range of industries on issues surrounding collaboration, change and strategy. With a business and change management background, and his passion for representing large and smaller groups, he can use all his knowledge, experience and creativity to help teams solve complex challenges together in a variety of settings.
For Jeroen, strategic thinking and visual work are inextricably linked and provide overview, insight and the prospect of results.
Join us in Nijkerk!
The Visual Strategy Facilitation Skills 1-day training course will be held at De Schakel, in the heart of beautiful Nijkerk, The Netherlands, located right near public transport.
Location:
Oranjelaan 10,
3862 CX Nijkerk
The Netherlands
Register now - Hurry! Closes 13 September
€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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More praise for this training
Making a strategy with 22 people? Yes, that is possible and is even very valuable. But you have to facilitate it well. With Jeroen, we have had excellent guidance. Leading the days cheerfully and optimistically, challenging, asking questions, steering on the end result and excellent preparation. It is not without reason that he is at the top of my list when it comes to facilitating complex issues.
Ernst Japikse, CEO
Ennatuurlijk
Balancing good content, participation, free time and fun is an art for a multi-day event... Jeroen and his team not only take care of organisational tasks, but they also add a lot of value based on their experience, making the event even more effective... The guidance was absolutely of a high level.
Willem de Bruijn, Sr. Director
Marketing & Business Development at ASC
Very surprising to hear everyone’s story told with the records. For some it was a real revelation. And it was especially with a lot of humour. In the days that followed, more drawings appeared in our group app! And the following week, colleagues started making drawings for customers in this way.
Joyce van Oostveen
Smartr