Visual Thinking for Effective Leadership...Visual Explorer Complete Kit Includes: o Facilitator...

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Visual Thinking

for Effective Leadership

Presented by Charles J. Palusand David Magellan Horth

for Effective Leadership

• What do you see in the following picture?

• What is obvious and what is surprising?

• What reactions are you having?

Paying Attention

• What questions do you have?

Please use your chat window to respond.

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• What do you see in the picture?


Paying Attention



• What reactions are you having?

• What questions do you have?


� ��Making Meaning

We didn’t ask the question…What does this picture mean to you?

If this was your image (you chose it or it chose you):


• Why?

• What does it mean?


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� ��Making Meaning

We didn’t ask the question…What does this picture mean to you?

If this was your image (you chose it or it chose you):


• Why?

• What does it mean?


Putting something in the middle …

We have found that the use of visual images

in the middle of conversations on complex

��Key Insight

and difficult issues, works for all kinds of

people—young and old, across languages,

and boundaries, globally, in any culture—for

creating insight and shared understanding.


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In your organization or community…

When you are doing your best work together…

What does leadership look like?

Reflection

Chat with Us1. Choose a card that describes leadership when you are

doing your best work together…

2. In your chat window, enter the number of the card you chose and include few notes about why you chose it.

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Boundary Spanning

Speed Meeting with LME Cards

State Dept. Military

Outcome = Mutual Confidence & Trust

© 2014 The Center for Creative Leadership

Leinad Berenhaut: It’s like appreciating the ruggedness of the western desert for what it is vs. trying to alter it.

Andy Sixgallery: That would be an interesting question to explore.

Lion Sommer: It seems the people have to make a decision since at the edge of the cliff.

Changing the Conversation

What behaviors and beliefs will help drive the business strategy?

© 2014 The Center for Creative Leadership and Shinergise Partners

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Graphic Facilitation

Background

Creative Competencies for Navigating Complex Challenges

From: Complexity and Chaos

To:Shared Understanding and Committed Action

© 2014 The Center for Creative Leadership

Chat with Us

Reflection

What next steps are calling you in your life or career right now?

Chat with UsChoose an image that says or represents something key to those steps. As you study the image, enter the following in your chat window:

1. The number of the image.2. A brief description of what stands out for you.3. Any connections you make with the steps in your

life or career.

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Chat with Us

Reflection

What next steps are calling you in your life or career right now?

Chat with UsChoose an image that says or represents something key to those steps. As you study the image, enter the following in your chat window:

1. The number of the image.2. A brief description of what stands out for you.3. Any connections you make with the steps in your

life or career.

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1. One person at a time presents their picture: First describe it. Thenmake connections between the picture and the challenge.

2. Picture offered to group. “Owner” remains silent. Picture and challenge are temporarily “owned” by the group.

Each point on the starrepresents a group member.

5. Repeat for other group members.

The Star ModelDialogue by Putting Something in the Middle

This process respects the safety, privacy, and authority of each participating member..

3. Each group member describes what they see. Then they explore connections from the picture to the challenge: “I chose this picture because …” or “If that were my picture, here’s how I might connect it to the challenge … ”Don’t problem‐solve, judge or give advice. Use first person I, me, my, not you.

4. Picture is given back to the originator. Originator is not obliged to “own” interpretations offered by the group. Originator has the last word —minimum of “thank you.”

Adapted from Montague Ullman (1996).

Dialogue by “putting something in the middle”

Visual Thinking Tools and Media

• Magazine clips (specialty, popular)

• Flip videocam

• Personal photos and mementos


• Graphic facilitation

• Collage and “movie making”

• Art and architecture, “place as coach”

• Digital mapping, visual plus verbal: Compendium Institute, MindManager, PowerPoint

• iPad

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,

but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

but in having new eyes.

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