Visual Communication

How teams can get clarity, engagement and alignment by collaboratively visualizing the nodes & links of any system to create a shared visual model.

When you draw the toast-making process, you will realize that there are links and nodes between the bread, the toaster, and the person. Tom Wujec loves asking people and teams to draw this process because it reveals unexpected truths about how we can solve our biggest, most complicated problems at work. Links and nodes can map out a complete system model, and this example draws the "toast-making" context. They also expose the complexity of the system by visualizing the number of nodes and connections. After many toast-making drawing exercises, Tom Wujec found out that people can produce a comprehensive system model when they unify their thoughts while working collaboratively. Watch the video to learn this exercise and hear Wujec’s surprising insights.

5 Shocking design mistakes you need to avoid - after all, it's not the program that sucks, it's you (the presenter).

PowerPoint is widely adopted across the globe for presentations. In fact, about 350 PowerPoint presentations are given every second in the world! However, approximately 99% of those presentations don't deliver the expected results. So what really attributes to this problem and how can we avoid it? Learn some of the shocking design mistakes made by presenters in this article and make your next PowerPoint slides interesting.