Making Company Values Meaningful
Company values are empty words unless your team members can see themselves in them. In this meeting story, we explain how a history chart and values storytelling activity helped ground the team at CG Strategy in appreciation for their company history and values.
How Visual Tools Helped Create a New Vision and Roadmap
Strategic planning meetings require techniques that ensure all voices can be heard and all ideas can be mapped so that the right decisions can be made using these ideas. In this meeting story, we break down how we did this in collaboration with the Mid-Atlantic Facilitator Network.
WEBINAR: Introduction to Facilitating with Visuals
Visuals are central to facilitating engaging meetings, but many facilitators and trainers lack a strong design muscle. Stop making boring, meaningless slide decks and start bringing visuals into your meetings in a fun, purposeful and creative way that will have a real impact on improving the outcomes of your meeting.
3 Visual Energizers for In-Person and Online Meetings
Energizers are the glue that keeps your agenda together, especially virtually. Energizers should always have a purpose, whether building connections, testing technology, or modeling behavior. Here are three of our favorite visual energizers to use in meetings.
8 Models Every Facilitator Should Be Able to Draw Live
A model is a diagram that helps convey a key concept using strategically aligned words and images used in a meeting to encourage a specific mindset or prompt thinking in a new way. Here are eight essential models and how to draw them.
Designing Effective Meeting Agreements
Meeting agreements can be ground rules, metaphors, or principles that help groups understand behavior expectations during a meeting. In this blog, we share our favorite meeting agreements and explain how to pick out the best agreement for your group’s success.
Visual Facilitation Tools for New-to-Visual Facilitators
Visual tools help people see their ideas in a way that gets people focused and on the same page. Sixty-five percent of the population are visual learners, so if you’re not using visuals, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity to engage participants.
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