What is graphic facilitation?
In a context where agility is becoming essential in companies, graphic facilitation is an increasingly widespread practice within teams. It allows for the understanding of complex concepts or topics to be simplified by presenting them visually, associating a drawing with a word.
This practice, comparable to the art of pitching in rhetorical techniques, allows us to capture the key elements, to know what we need to focus on and, above all, to generate engagement.
Graphical facilitation also allows for more agile accompaniment of a the collaboration process, By facilitating exchanges and reflections within the same group through 3 phases:
- Collecting the information
- Filtering the information to identify content with added value
- Graphically presenting the information to simplify the message and optimize its impact
This visual practice is accessible to everyone, even those who don't know how to draw. Short training in graphic facilitation.
We also dedicate a whole module to graphical facilitation in our certifying training in agile methods for all projects !
What are the techniques of graphic facilitation?
Through visual synthesis, graphic facilitation integrates many uses and forms that will serve everyone according to their situation and goals:
- The scribing: Real-time graphical transcription of a discussion
- The sketchnote: graphic note taking during a meeting, a conference, etc. (this is the most common method of graphic facilitation)
- The summary: creation of a simplified and illustrated version of a document
- Visual coaching: reforming someone’s words to help them understand their problems
- Illustration of a presentation: Visual synthesis of a document in the perspective of an oral presentation
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Why use visual and graphic facilitation?
Graphical facilitation is useful for to accompany a conference or to synthesize a meeting It allows to simplify and enhance the impact of the discourse by relying on visuals rather than words. But this visual practice is especially effective for sharing a common vision, help the group think and make a decision by making the elements of thought clear.
It can also be useful in resolving conflicts and used as a mediation tool.
Graphical facilitation allows stakeholders to isolate the problem, find different solutions, represent the unspoken, and set goals to solve the problem.
«Images are more effective than words»
Sharon Bowman, lecturer, trainer and author of « 6 trump cards of learning«
At talenco, we also regularly use graphic facilitation during our interventions! To integrate visual practices into your organization and make your company more agile, do not hesitate to contact us for personalized support.
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