Visual Leaders

Introduction
 
Tracking a Visual Revolution xiii
 
Part One: The Visual Leadership Advantage
 
1. Seven Essential Tools / Metaphors & Models, Visual Meetings, Graphic Templates, Decision Rooms, Roadmaps, Storymaps, & Video 3
 
2. Seeing Results in Action / Why Leaders Get Visual 11
 
3. How to Run Visual Meetings / What Every Manager Should Know 33
 
Part Two: Looking At Your Own Leadership
 
4. What Is Your "Operating System"? / The Power (& Peril) of Mental Models 51
 
5. What Kind of Organization Do You Lead? / Linking Tools to Stages of Development 61
 
6. Developing Your Visual IQ / How Visualizing Makes You Smarter 73
 
Part Three: Power Tools for Visual Leaders
 
7. Metaphors & Models / Helping People See What You Mean 91
 
8. Visual Meetings / Stimulating Engagement & Creative Contribution 107
 
9. Graphic Templates / Visuals for Any Kind of Planning 115
 
10. Decision Rooms / Making Choices in a Big Picture Context 129
 
11. Roadmaps & Visual Plans / Managing Milestones & Swim Lanes 139
 
12. Graphic Storymaps / Connecting Plans with Culture 147
 
13. Video & Virtual Visuals / Mobile Video, Tablets, Animation, & Panoramic Display 157
 
Part Four: Managing the New Media
 
14. Technology & Visualization / Enabling the Right Tools 171
 
15. Virtual Leadership / Communicating with Intention & Impact 181
 
Part Five: Leading Organization Change
 
16. Anticipating the Need to Change / Putting Visual Tools to Work 193
 
17. The Chrysalis Effect / Creating the Conditions for Transformation 205
 
Part Six: Links, Books, & Other Resources
 
18. Websites & Bibliography 215
 
Appendix / About Arthur M. Young 223
 
Index 224

David Sibbet is a world leader in visual facilitation and visual thinking for groups. He is the founder and president of The Grove Consultants International, a company whose leading edge group-process tools and services for panoramic visualization, graphic facilitation, team leadership, and organizational transformation are used by consultants and organizations around the world. Sibbet was the visual cartographer for the 2008 TED conference. Also in 2008, he received the OD Network Member Award for Creative Contribution to the field of organizational development.