#visualfunk

A study at Harvard showed that customers come back to people they like. 80% of what brings them back is the personality of the person, and 20% is the skill. In emotional intelligence, it has been proven that the mood of the leader will determine the mood of the organisation. Your mood really matters at work and in business!

As a practicing artist with a foot in both the creative and corporate worlds, I ‘get‘ creativity. I am absolutely passionate about the role of creativity and its wingmen, curiosity, and imagination can play in our lives. I believe the world can only be a better place when we embrace our creativity and a whole way of thinking, working, and doing.

This graphic facilitation tutorial takes you through the basics of visual facilitation and communication as you learn to express your ideas. Be it a startup business idea, creating a strategy, or exploring complex ideas in a simple way - visual communication is the solution. These visual facilitation videos will help you remove all the clutter and enable you to focus on framing your ideas in a way that your audience can understand and connect with.

In Lesson #2 – The Power of Lines – we will go back to the basics of drawing where one of the most elementary components is a line – straight or squiggly, twisted or curly – you name it, and they together form the foundation of creative and graphic facilitation. Using just lines, one can create all sorts of emotions – anger, elation, sadness, chaos – everything, and they are all governed by how the lines are connected to each other. This video will take you through the few essential pointers that you need to practice. Remember, in this phase, you have already dealt with your ogre and the time is to experiment with lines. So, take a pen and paper, and doodle away…

Watch a short grab of VisualFunk bringing a conference to life using the power of graphic images and visual communication. About Simon Banks Simon Banks is an author and international speaker on creativity and innovation and a happily recovering artist. He describes his geek out the spot as the intersection of creativity and design, learning, people, and passion which he sees as essential building blocks for future leaders and developing an innovative culture. His Big Why? To build a more creative world to enable people and businesses to thrive in the Modern Age. Simon has facilitated over 1300 successful events across Europe, Asia, America, and Australia, including conferences; innovation hackathons, visual storytelling programs, and creativity and design thinking workshops. He's worked to bring fresh thinking and innovation out of teams in companies that include: EY, Chevron, The Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, Sportsbet, Suncorp, NAB, Commonwealth Bank, Geoscience Australia, The QLD Government, and Volkswagen, to name a few.

So, take a pen and paper, and doodle away… About Graphic Facilitation Videos – Do you think verbal communication is not enough to express your ideas? Do you want to be able to shift your usual thinking and ideas? Are you looking for a more engaging style of communication to connect with your clients, your team, the board, or your investors? Then you have come to the right place. This facilitation training tutorial takes you through the basics of graphic facilitation as you learn to express your ideas. Be it pitching a startup business idea, creating a strategy, or exploring complex ideas in a simple way - visual facilitation is the solution. These graphic recording videos will help you remove all the clutter and enable you to focus on framing your ideas in a way that your audience can easily understand and connect with.

Do you think verbal communication is not enough to express your ideas? Do you want to be able to shift your usual thinking and ideas? Are you looking for a more engaging style of communication to connect with your clients, your team, the board, or your investors? Then you have come to the right place. This graphic facilitation tutorial takes you through the basics of visual facilitation and communication as you learn to express your ideas. Be it a startup business idea, creating a strategy, or exploring complex ideas in a simple way - visual communication is the solution. These visual facilitation videos will help you remove all the clutter and enable you to focus on framing your ideas in a way that your audience can understand and connect with. In this lesson you'll learn how to deal with your Ogre - we will learn about the inner voice that inhibits us from being more creative. Since graphic facilitation constantly uses your creativity, the first thing that you have to deal with is an internal ogre. Silence it and you are halfway into learning visual communication and mastering how to draw.

At any event, be it a product launch, awards dinner, show, or conference, the energy you maintain in your audience is crucial. This is where the Corporate MC plays a critical role in contributing to the success of an event. Whether it be humorous, thought-provoking and serious or a combination of all of these, the MC sets the expectation and tone for your event – bringing you unique energy from outside the organization. Simon has an unnatural ability to get an audience engaged, energized, and interacting rapidly. You may not remember all the tiny details of the conference, but your audience will always remember the energy that filled every corner of the room. Creativity is essential for business as it helps us to adapt, thrive, and grow. It encompasses all the things that machines can’t do – our brilliant human stuff. My geek out spot is at the intersection of creativity and design, business, and people, with some passion and inspiration thrown in. I think these are essential building blocks for Innovation.