Visual Thinking Skills

Do you want to visualise your ideas and make team collaboration more effective? Simplify messaging and create a shared vision? Learn how to work more visually?

This workshop will provide you with the necessary skills and knowledge you need to adopt and evolve your very own unique Visual Thinking style.

• The WHY of Visual Thinking-Benefits & theory
• Visual Thinking Toolbox
  • Building a visual vocabulary, objects, icons & figures
  • Containers, connectors & banners
  • Lettering
  • Layout, structure & flow

• Active listening techniques
• The use of Graphic Templates
• Visual facilitation simulation

Get introduced to the essential visual thinking building blocks before discovering your very own visual thinking style. Gain all the tips and techniques you need to generate ideas and solve problems visually.

Continuing your journey...

Taking your first visual steps is a big step! Exploring and practicing what you have learnt during this workshop will ensure your visual thinking journey continues and flourishes but sometimes it's daunting to travel alone, right?

To support the ongoing journey to presenting clear, attractive and dynamic visuals we offer an additional advance module to all participants of this course. You will benefit from a 1-2-1 deep dive session with your facilitator, work towards a final assignment (based on your needs) and finish with a de-brief of the visuals created. If you'd like to find out more about this service please contact our team training@radtac.com.

FAQs

COVID-19

Radtac is planning to to facilitate many of our scheduled training via our Live-Online virtual classroom. We are continually reviewing this decision based on advice from the local authorities in the region of delivery to ensure the safety of our clients. team and partners. For further information please see our policy here. We understand in-person interactive collaborative training experiences are preferred by many of our clients, we want to ensure that during challenging times different approaches are available to support our clients.

Our Visual Thinking Skills displayed as Live-Online will therefore be facilitated via our virtual classroom and divided into three modules delivered across three-days from 1pm-4pm.

What is a Live-Online course?

Live-Online courses are those delivered via our virtual (online) classroom. You will collaborate and interact with your course tutor and participants in real-time via video conferencing and our our digital workspace. You can read more about our Live-Online courses, tools and watch a short video on what to expect here. For public scheduled Live-Online courses you should for look for the dates with a location set as Live-Online <city>. The city is used to highlight the timezone the class will be set in but can be joined by anyone who can be present during the duration of the course.

How do I reserve my place on a public course?

Simply click on the blue button on this page titled ‘Book Course’ to reserve you place today. This is a very popular course, spaces fill quickly and it is recommended that you book your course as soon as practicable. We always ensure our pricing is competitive and offers real value for money.

How do I book a number of employees for private a course?

If you would like one of our qualified trainers to host to your organisation, simply click the button on this page titled ‘Onsite Enquiry', fill in your details and we will be in touch within 24hrs. We can then personalise the program to fit your specific needs, tailored to your specific business outcomes and budget.

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The theory of Visual Thinking and drawing deep dive

We will focus on the why of Visual Thinking before progressing with drawing techniques and top tips. By the end of the session you will have a bank of reusable images to master and evolve.

Building your Visual Thinking Toolbox

We will focus on some key aspects of Visual Thinking including lettering techniques, title banners, containers; and layout, flow and structure patterns. You now have the ingredients to tell an impactful visual story.

Visual Facilitation and Active listening

During this final module we will run active listening exercises before simulating idea mapping and problem-solving exercises with the use of online graphic templates. Now you have the ability to embrace group diversity and convergent thinking virtually.

• Apply visual thinking skills to support working groups to effectively express ideas and solve problems.
• Discover visual thinking tools and techniques that will assist with business alignment and customer engagement.
• Create the perfect conditions to enhance distributed innovation and accelerate learning.

This workshop is aimed at anyone who wants to learn and improve their visualisation skills

This workshop does not have any pre-requisites.

This workshop does not require any pre-course preparation. 

This workshop does not provide a formal certification and does not include an exam. 

Three modules of high-quality instruction from Radtac’s innovation Practice Lead, Stuart Young. Stuart is a professional business visualiser and Certified Scrum Practitioner with a deep-rooted appreciation of Agile Principles and methods of Design Thinking. Also included are:

• Visual thinking handouts
• A variety graphic-templates
• Community membership including face-to-face & virtual networking and knowledge-sharing opportunities, access to industry experts, special offers and invitations to special events

We use Zoom video conferencing to host our live online courses via a virtual classroom. We recommend that before registering participants run a zoom test meeting and check system requirements to ensure they are able to connect. Participants will also use our digital workspace, Mural and our Agile Tools Mobile app for collaboration with the class and completing exercises for the duration of the course. You’ll find links below to test and explain requirements for each of these tools.

Zoom requirements

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-System-Requirements-for-PC-Mac-and-Linux

Zoom test meeting

https://zoom.us/test

Mural requirements

https://support.mural.co/en/articles/2113688-technical-requirements-to-run-mural

Agile Tools Mobile App

https://www.radtac.com/resources/agile-tools-mobile-app/

On registration full information will be provided via joining instructions to each partcipant with instructions on how to acess the virtual classroom and additional tools.

Still unsure? Talk to our team of friendly learning advisors, they are here to assist before, during and after your class if you have any questions.