{"id":275,"date":"2015-02-04T13:55:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T21:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/?p=275"},"modified":"2015-02-04T13:56:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T21:56:53","slug":"two-new-resources-for-better-visual-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Two new resources for better visual meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Gallery Walks book<\/p><\/div>\n

My colleague and friend Lisa Arora of Get the Picture<\/a> recently published two digital books<\/a> about important topics in graphic recording — how to really make the most of the dance between a facilitator and a graphic recorder, and how to conduct gallery walks of completed charts — and they are outstanding.<\/p>\n

How To Get the Most Out of Working with a Graphic Recorder<\/strong> is an excellent resource for facilitators and graphic recorders (GRs) about how to work together. The suggestions and explanations are clear and insightful, and if you implement them I guarantee they will make your very next tandem engagement\u00a0better. I highly recommend it for anyone running a meeting or workshop who plans to work with a GR, even if you don’t think of yourself as a facilitator. If you’re wondering whether you want to hire a graphic recorder and have never engaged one before, read this book to understand how to work with one so that you reap\u00a0the real value of working visually. If you tend to work solo (doing both the facilitation and recording yourself), you might pick up a few tips, but the book is really aimed at facilitator-graphic recorder partners, and for those who plan to engage one or the other.<\/p>\n

The other book, The How To on Effective Gallery Walks for Visual Meetings<\/strong>, is comprehensive, creative, and brilliant. It really gets into gallery walks (where participants spend reflective time looking at the maps at different points in the meeting, and thinking deeply about them). It goes way\u00a0beyond grouping people up and having them file past the charts. If you want to extend the life of the maps,\u00a0maximize their usefulness to participants, and deepen the level of thinking in the group, get this book, read it, and build a real gallery walk\u00a0into your next visual meeting. I’ll be pulling ideas out of this one starting immediately, I can tell you.<\/p>\n

Go take a look at the two books. If you partner or hire facilitator\/GR partners, get them both. If you are a graphic recorder, a facilitator, or a dual-role graphic facilitator, or if you plan, host, or sponsor visual meetings, get the one on gallery walks. You’ll be glad you did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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