
Want to do "Visual Discovery" as a Solutions Consultant? How about hosting a workshop on corporate strategy? Identify visually where your team or organization is weakest or strongest? A picture is worth a thousand words, and you don't need to know how to draw to build up your visual vocabulary or learn the useful patterns to get there.
If you're doing all the talking, you're doing it wrong....
https://www.youtube.com/@UPSWBCampaign is the viral UPS marketing campaign that brought chalk talks into fashion in 2007.
Simply put, if I can do it, you can too ;-)
Let's test your skills with a little game called "Guess what I am drawing?" at quickdraw.withgoogle.com!
Useful for demonstrating strengths and weaknesses in corporate and client strategy, or in application design or network patterns, based on compare/contrast of current state to future state
The Connector/Integration Pattern is common if you are trying to explain how to unify people, processes, systems, etc. It is used heavily in technology when explaining integrations or mapping your current architecture to a commonly known pattern for improvement / modification.
Good for sorting disparate processes and people into different ownership / categories, good for integration scenarios, good for uncovering dependencies and good for uncovering lots of information in a meaningful way
In the world of remote Zoom meetings, it's easy to get people to hit that mute button, turn off their cameras, and not participate. Use the fill in the blanks pattern to encourage large groups of people from multiple business areas to volunteer information in your workshop.
TLDR - YES!
Success at Sketchnoting means you spend less time transcribing it than creating it....
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Practice the output of your patterns
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Need to communicate something visual to your customer or team? Need to describe a network diagram or process you've never documented before? See your fellow network architects come up with an amazing drawing? How did they learn to do that? What tools do they use? And how do they take those great workshop outputs and transform them into a professional presentation or document? This course will teach you how to facilitate a visual discovery session with your team, a client, a customer, or partner, taking the information inside a meeting and transforming it into a visual flow or roadmap. It will teach you to do (and also, what to avoid), and then help you take it even further, so it becomes the true north for your client's vision or company strategy. It will also cover common patterns and layout considerations, and discuss common tools you might use to facilitate these sessions. Next, its going to be critical to transcribe your visual sketchnoting output into the next steps - a proposal, a presentation, or other document that is readable and understandable by those that did not work through the session you facilitated. Augment your verbal skills with visual diagrams, taking your work to the next level, helping your work stand out above everyone else!