Drawing activates a different region of the brain than writing or talking, and can inspire creativity.įinally, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention recording and memorializing (with pictures!) your insights and decisions. These can be creating personal visual bios, illustrating some of your organization’s core values, or The Squiggle Game. We also suggest planning some time and activities to engage participants through drawing. Common templates we work with, like a journey map or an empathy map, can be prepared in advance, and take the pressure of live-drawing out of the equation. Additionally, laying out the schedule visually, even using simple blocks in Excel, can help communicate the meeting’s structure, and what topics get the most time.Īnother way ImageThink facilitates bringing drawing into client meetings is to use visual templates as a supplement to the agenda. That said, color coding your agenda, can be a helpful way for attendees to get a sense of what topics seem the most important to the meeting organizers in advance. Start small! To begin with, we know that not everyone went to art school, or is as confident with a marker as our graphic recorders. We’ve written extensively about the power of images to aid retention and memorability of a session, and as a tool to jumpstart group creativity.īut how do you bring illustration and images into your meeting’s agenda? In addition to incorporating design thinking elements, ImageThink is proudly passionate about the role visuals play in igniting your team’s most creative pathways. Whether to tug on a particularly interesting string of thought, examine a newly discovered challenge, or debate opposing points of view, there’s no point bringing together your organization’s best minds only to shut them down with a buzzer. We always strive to accurately schedule time for meeting topics, however, we also encourage clients to allow for deviations. We believe your meetings should be as well. The design thinker is ever nimble, ever curious, and ever flexible. Assembling the right, engaged group can avoid wasted time and increase participation.Īnother crucial step in agenda design that we’ve cribbed from the design thinking manual is the emphasis on iteration, evaluation, and repetition. What’s more, framing goals as clear questions is useful in determining who to include in the meeting. These deceptively simple questions encourage thinking critically about the meeting and can actually kickstart meeting prep. Too broad of an inquiry can be insurmountable, while being too specific can result in narrow group-think. What benchmarks need to be hit? What are the existing pain points? What were successes and areas for improvement? It’s important to frame your questions appropriately. We’ve found that it is easiest to set agenda goals by asking a series of questions. In practice, this means identifying a goal for the meeting rooted in solving a specific business challenges for specific individuals, departments, or organizations. In a nutshell, design thinking is a human-centric methodology for problem solving. Successful by DESIGN:Ĭreating a good meeting agenda begins with identifying what needs to be discussed, and this is one area where our devotion to design thinking principles is helpful. Applying these principles to our client’s most important challenges, we build tailored, ambitious, and achievable agendas for their biggest meetings. ImageThink’s approach to writing a good agenda is steeped in design thinking philosophy, visual theory, and our own ImageThink Method.
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