Stepping Up to Big Questions

Oct 07, 2014

Stepping Up to Big Questions

Oct 07, 2014h in Graphic Facilitation, Leading Change, Organization Development, Personal Transformation, Sustainability by David Sibbet 0 Comments

I’m on my way to Germany with Gisela Wendling, The Grove’s Director of Global Learning, to conduct a new kind of workshop for me and The Grove. Called a Visual Interventions LAB, it is moving into the space long held by the National Training LABS that have been so instrumental in developing the professional field of organizational development.

A LAB isn’t a training in skill and content, but a deep inquiry and exploration, where the group process and its knowledge is the primary content. We came up with some big questions that will drive our inquiry.
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Aug 01, 2014

The Power of the Pen: At EuViz Berlin

Aug 01, 2014h in Collaboration Strategies, Graphic Facilitation, Leading Change, Personal Development, Visualizing by David Sibbet 1 Comment

“You pulled your punches,” Karolina said, standing below the stage at the July 2014 EuViz conference where I was sitting along with three other “elders” in the field of visual facilitation. “I and some others felt like you didn’t really say what you thought. You are the founders of this field. You need to tell us what you really think.”

We were at the Hotel nhow in Berlin with 220 visual practitioners from 29 countries. The conference was a collaboration between the International Forum of Visual Practitioners (IFVP), now 19 years old, and Neuland and Kommunikationslotsen*. It was by far the biggest and most professional IFVP conference yet—beautifully organized and a powerful experience. Participants included the full range, from beginners in the field to longtime veterans and skilled practitioners.

Elders - The Power of the Pen: At EuViz Berlin

Oct 03, 2011

Visual Teams Has Arrived—What’s New About It?

Oct 03, 2011h in Collaboration Strategies, Graphic Facilitation, Innovation, Organization Development, Process Theory, Visual Leadership books, Visualizing by David Sibbet 0 Comments

My second Wiley book, Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, & High Performance, arrived in a box at the precise moment we finished a review of our Team Performance System at The Grove’s Quarterly meeting! Needless to say I and our team was pretty exited. Everyone wanted to know what was new in this book that they could talk about.

10Showingthebook - Visual Teams Has Arrived—What's New About It? Here is my answer.

1. New Success Stories: It tells the stories of many high performance teams that used visualization extensively to achieve results. These stories from HP, Otis Spunkmeyer, RE-AMP, Agilent Technologies, the DLR Group, and Gary Hamel’s MLab demonstrate how visual meeting methods can be used over the whole arc of team’s life.

Oct 21, 2010

OD Network Notes, Taken on an iPad

Oct 21, 2010h in Graphic Facilitation, Organization Development by David Sibbet 7 Comments

2010-10-19 14_41_07 -0500 - OD Network Notes, Taken on an iPad I went to the Organizational Development Network annual conference in New Orleans this week and overlooked the fact I was on the very last page of my journal, a constant companion. This forced me onto the iPad for notetaking and I really had FUN!

I used Sketchbook Pro app for the iPad, saving them to iTunes and then to a folder I could upload here. If you are interested in either OD or iPad noteaking you might check these out. You can click on the images and they will pop up large scale on your screen.

This one is choreographer Garth Fagan’s keynote. Since I experience facilitation as a dance, it was one of my favorite.

The rest of these are posted below, column-width.