Here’s a success story from one of our customers, Yolanda Facio from Red. Hot. Momentum Yolanda Facio Speaks about Referral Marketing I was pretty excited when I was recently asked to present a workshop at Pam Slim’s Power Boost Live event. Pam asked that I give a breakout session on building a referral-based business. I [...] Click to continue reading »
Can an Image Paint a Thousand Words?
Here’s what’s interesting about the brain. It relies on memories to develop our values and belief systems. I had to think about that at first because my initial reaction was, don’t I decide what I believe? Nope. My brain has an active role in determining what I believe based on what I remember. Of course [...] Click to continue reading »
Building Better Client Engagement
Building Your Practice One Deck At A Time Fear. It’s one of the biggest barriers to growing a business, organization, team or department. We want to keep much of what we know, our expertise, close to the vest. But failure to share means failure to expand and move beyond what exists right now into what [...] Click to continue reading »
A New Facilitator tries VisualsSpeak
We hear from facilitators all the time who are using the VisualsSpeak toolset — but usually it is from experienced practitioners. Recently, though, we heard of an experience by someone brand-new to the tools and to facilitation! Learning by participating He was working with a group in his organization on planning a conference, and they [...] Click to continue reading »
Tell your clients to stick it!
Yes, that’s right. Tell your clients to stick it. The photographs! To the wall! What did you think I meant? Painters Tape! When facilitating VisualsSpeak processes we recommend you carry a couple of rolls of painter’s tape with you. These are the blue rolls of tape you can find in most hardware stores. Painter’s tape [...] Click to continue reading »
Making your training stickier
Good interventions, whether training, coaching, facilitation, or something else, aren’t one-time events. To be most effective, they need to have an ongoing component that helps participants apply what they learned. A great way to do this with the VisualsSpeak tools is through the creation of artifacts–pieces that the participant can take away with them for [...] Click to continue reading »
Getting to know co-workers better
Kathryn works for a regional mental health agency, alongside a team that has been together a long time. Even though they’ve been a group for a while, the pressure and pace of the work doesn’t give them much chance to talk. They are just too busy providing services for their clients. So Kathryn brought a [...] Click to continue reading »
Visuals can Save You TIme
Visuals are not just another thing You’ve got 45 minutes. And easily an hour’s worth of content to cover. As it is, you’ll be racing through things, trying to make sure you get to all the key points that the folks in the room need to know. And now you have to add visuals, too!? [...] Click to continue reading »
Tip: Don't Try To Keep All The Balls In The Air
When facilitating a session–particularly one with VisualsSpeak–there is often a need to record, to keep track of what people are saying and doing. But even more than that, there is a need to be present, to be immersed in what’s going on. Sometimes, those two roles conflict. It’s hard to be present when you’re also [...] Click to continue reading »
Tip: Good Tools for Bad Rooms
Heading to present or facilitate at a conference, but they won’t give you tables? Or working in a room that is all set up with lecture or classroom seating? Consider using the VisualsSpeak mini-tools: Building Great Teams or Developing Great Leaders. These sets have smaller cards, and are easier to handle on your lap. They [...] Click to continue reading »