As I develop new products I grab the people around me to test everything. A couple of years ago I was vacationing in Cabo San Lucus with my parents and I asked them to try out an exercise using a prototype of the VisualsSpeak ImageSet. Present and Future At the time I was testing images, [...] Click to continue reading »
What do you want your legacy to be? part 2
In part 1 of this post, I talked about how my business partner and I used this question to explore why we had started VisualsSpeak/Exploring New Options as a way to understand our core values around doing the work. In this post I’m going to relate to you the answers I got for myself by [...] Click to continue reading »
What do you want your legacy to be?
Use this question in your sessions to get insights into your clients. Christine and I were discussing legacy the other day. We were taking a different conversational path to figuring out why we created VisualsSpeak/Exploring New Options and the visual approach to facilitation we have developed. Some of the questions we explored are: Why are [...] Click to continue reading »
Build your business with visuals
When I feel like I have too many details threatening to drown me and it feels like everything is lost in mud, I know it’s time to talk with small business consultant, Yolanda Facio. She cuts right through the mess, reorganizes the ideas, and gets me moving in a more focused direction. Shifting to online [...] Click to continue reading »
3 Ways to Use Visual Tools With Your Clients
How can you use visual tools with your clients? Lots of ways, but here are three to get you started. Use visual tools for the assessment/intake Using visuals at the first meeting is a great way to get to know your new client and get some concrete ideas of what their goals are. Usually people [...] Click to continue reading »
Give the gift of continuing insights
Would you like to know a simple and easy way to help your clients continue to gain insights long after your session is over? When you use images to help people gain insights into their lives, something remarkable happens. The images, in a sense, get burned into people’s brains. It’s like they burrow down into [...] Click to continue reading »
Putting insights into practice
In How to Change a Story that Keeps You Stuck, I worked with Michele Martin to identify some places she could focus on to shift her career development work into something that was more aligned with where she wanted to be. Fast forward, it’s five months later. In this 55 minute Insight Session, I check [...] Click to continue reading »
VisualsSpeak for Career/Life Coaching
Some tips on how to use VisualsSpeak as a career or life coaching tool. Click to continue reading »
Using visuals for coaching
I had the pleasure of speaking at the NW Coaches Association meeting recently. As is true in so many of these quick speaking opportunities, there were a number of questions left unanswered due to lack of time. This post offers some answers to some of them. Setting up a VisualsSpeak session The first thing I [...] Click to continue reading »