The document discusses how making things visual can help companies operate more profitably by improving productivity and clarity. It argues that visuals create clarity and connection faster than words alone, enabling better meetings, solutions, and profitability. The key message is that using visual facilitation techniques in meetings and discussions can significantly impact a company in a positive way and become a best practice for producing breakthrough results.

1. Making Things Visual
Will Help Your Company
Operate More Profitably.
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By enabling each person to improve productivity.
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2. Let’s begin where we already invest
large amounts of time: in meetings.
They’re not always productive.
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3. The process of achieving greater productivity --
whether it involves
selling,
planning,
training,
managing,
strategizing, etc.
is built on clarity & connection between people . . .
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4. Clarity and connection form a platform for all
relationships, transactions, and processes.
When clarity and connection don’t occur,
movement stops, slows, or goes in a different direction.
Productivity suffers.
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5. Fortunately,
clarity & connection
are easily created or enhanced with
visual
images.
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6. From the beginning, people
have expressed their ideas
and dreams in visual form . . .
because we think in pictures.
Vision is our gateway sense.
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7. We use images as tools for communication,
recording, planning, celebration, . . . evolution.
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Pictures have allowed people to convey ideas
far more easily than with words alone.
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8. Visuals create clarity faster
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and maintain
focus better.
by getting people on the same page (...or wall.)
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9. Some pictures tell stories worth
much more than “a thousand words”. . .
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Some pictures make the invisible visible.
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10. causing some companies to realize that . . .
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getting clear faster
can be a best practice
for producing breakthrough results.
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When we help people
make connections,
we move them forward.
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12. If a shift in perception
can build a bridge,
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trigger an effective action,
make a meeting productive...
then creating clarity and
connection faster WITH PICTURES
can become A BEST PRACTICE.
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13. Time in meetings is leveraged.
Solutions are better.
Profitability increases.
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Visual Facilitation, the translation of words into pictures,
works like a trim tab* on a ship --
-- it’s a little mechanism with a huge impact.
The trim tab turns the rudder . . . which turns the ship.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_tab (see metaphor at bottom) 13

14. Leverage the visual advantage
for yourself . . .
Get a live demonstration of how
Visual Facilitation
can become a trim tab to your profitability!
Contact us today!
David
Winkelman
(858)
775-­‐4530
email:
david@vizfac.com
web:
www.vizfac.com
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