Visual Leaders
In Visual Leaders, David Sibbet examines the importance of visualization tools for leaders in the modern workplace.
Sibbet shows how managers can use visualization actively during meetings to inspire, support thinking, and promote new projects and ideas.
Visuals spark new ideas and increase engagement immediately, and the book contains a medley of charts, diagrams, and anecdotes to illustrate this point.
There are seven essential tools for visual leaders that Sibbet explains in detail, in addition to providing the key uses for each.
These tools include metaphors and models, visual meetings, graphic templates, decision rooms, roadmaps and visual plans, graphic storymaps, and video/virtual visuals.
At the most general level, leaders and managers focus on what needs to get done, with whom, in what time frame, and with what kind of quality.
In living systems, there are DNA instructions in every cell that contain the story of how different parts of the organism should grow and behave.
If a cell in a plant finds itself underground, it knows to be a root.
If it finds itself at the end of a branch, it becomes a leaf.
The lesson leaders can learn from this analogy is that when people truly know how their duties relate to bigger goals, organizations work more effectively.
Developing this general understanding is the primary role and key power of visual leadership.
• The stages of growth within an organization exist as a series of evolutionary developments interrupted by revolutionary periods of change.
The tools presented in this book are most important for when an organization needs to undergo a sweeping change.
• The Four Flows framework is designed to understand how people engage with and learn from experiences, and consists of four things: attention, energy, information, and operations.
The essential tools of visual leadership are designed to be used within the Four Flows framework.
• There are seven kinds of organizations, or stages of organizational development, and each requires a specific set of visual tools.
Arranged from simplest to most complex, they include: startups, growth organizations, specialized organizations, institutions, regenerative organizations, co-creative organizations, and transformative organizations.
• The seven essential tools of visual leadership are metaphors and models, visual meetings, graphic templates, decision rooms, roadmaps and visual plans, graphic storymaps, and video/virtual visuals.
These tools can be used alone or in combination to help align, engage, and inspire people within an organization.
Visual Leaders by David Sibbet is a guidebook for leaders and managers of organizations who want to increase their visual intelligence in order to more easily communicate complex ideas in a visual format.
The book contains useful charts, diagrams, and sidebars, and can be read cover to cover or used as a reference.
The final part of the book is devoted to listing external links, books, and other resources that readers can use to further their knowledge of visual learning techniques.
Sibbet shows how managers can use visualization actively during meetings to inspire, support thinking, and promote new projects and ideas.
Visuals spark new ideas and increase engagement immediately, and the book contains a medley of charts, diagrams, and anecdotes to illustrate this point.
There are seven essential tools for visual leaders that Sibbet explains in detail, in addition to providing the key uses for each.
These tools include metaphors and models, visual meetings, graphic templates, decision rooms, roadmaps and visual plans, graphic storymaps, and video/virtual visuals.
At the most general level, leaders and managers focus on what needs to get done, with whom, in what time frame, and with what kind of quality.
In living systems, there are DNA instructions in every cell that contain the story of how different parts of the organism should grow and behave.
If a cell in a plant finds itself underground, it knows to be a root.
If it finds itself at the end of a branch, it becomes a leaf.
The lesson leaders can learn from this analogy is that when people truly know how their duties relate to bigger goals, organizations work more effectively.
Developing this general understanding is the primary role and key power of visual leadership.
• The stages of growth within an organization exist as a series of evolutionary developments interrupted by revolutionary periods of change.
The tools presented in this book are most important for when an organization needs to undergo a sweeping change.
• The Four Flows framework is designed to understand how people engage with and learn from experiences, and consists of four things: attention, energy, information, and operations.
The essential tools of visual leadership are designed to be used within the Four Flows framework.
• There are seven kinds of organizations, or stages of organizational development, and each requires a specific set of visual tools.
Arranged from simplest to most complex, they include: startups, growth organizations, specialized organizations, institutions, regenerative organizations, co-creative organizations, and transformative organizations.
• The seven essential tools of visual leadership are metaphors and models, visual meetings, graphic templates, decision rooms, roadmaps and visual plans, graphic storymaps, and video/virtual visuals.
These tools can be used alone or in combination to help align, engage, and inspire people within an organization.
Visual Leaders by David Sibbet is a guidebook for leaders and managers of organizations who want to increase their visual intelligence in order to more easily communicate complex ideas in a visual format.
The book contains useful charts, diagrams, and sidebars, and can be read cover to cover or used as a reference.
The final part of the book is devoted to listing external links, books, and other resources that readers can use to further their knowledge of visual learning techniques.
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