I love the app Mural & the book Business Model Generation. To me they like are like peanut butter and chocolate. Two great things that have come together to create something AWESOME!

First of all, did you know that the Mural app has a ton of great business model templates you can start using today?

Yes, they have a templates for S.W.O.T. Analysis, Mindmaps and more! And my absolute favorite template that I come back to year after year is the Business Model Canvas.

Click the video above for a quick tour of my own Business Model Canvas and see how I use the app Mural for my annual business planning.

Whenever you are ready, there are 2 ways I can help you:

✏️ 1. The Visual Facilitation Online Course + Playbook: Unlock an engaging toolbox filled easy-to-use visuals. You will learn how to create memorable visuals for your coaching calls, in-person events or even your online course.
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✏️ 2. Private Coaching Sessions: Are you feeling stuck in your business? Do you feel like yo...

Carin Donald is a South African based management consultant, currently working for a leading Engineering Consulting and Advisory firm where she combines her technical expertise in risk management, human centered design and facilitation skills to assist teams in unteasing complex challenges. She’s married to her best friend and together they are raising two young boys in the sunny city of Johannesburg. She loves the rush of traveling to new and different places and when that cannot happen, she attempts to keep her garden alive.

When did your visual thinking first get activated?
During school, although obviously at the time I didn’t realize it; I was taught how to do a mindmap as a learning tool, which was quite some time ago. The change in mindset was quite the ‘thing’ about 25 years ago 

How are using your Visual Facilitation skills? 
It began while I facilitated what could be considered very ‘technical’ workshops using visual facilitation tools to identify risks in an engineering adviso...

 I am so excited to be a part of the launch team for this new business book perfect for Facilitators, Leaders and Trainers. Last week on LinkedIn I talked about the Wheel of Life and this week we are talking about how to achieve Work/Life balance.

I have been a student of Micheal Hyatt's for years and I am so excited to. share with you more about his new book as well as a sneak peek inside my #FullFocusPlanner and BONUS how I take visual notes on my iPad.

This book is jammed packed tips and tools to help you organize and prioritize your work and life.

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"Michael Hyatt & Megan Hyatt Miller have cracked the code to transform your productivity and relationships. If you're looking for that 'missing piece' to get your life and time back, run–don't walk–to this book!" - Julie Solomon

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Easy to use new tool Visual Thinkers. Ready to learn how you can create awesome visuals for your next meeting. In this video lesson, I will share with step-by-step how I created a simple visual to share my Zoom Tips for Pro.

This week I was invited to join the new DRAWIFY community as a Hero and I am absolutely loving how easy it is to use this tool for people to new Visual Thinking as well as Professional Visual Facilitators like me.

Whenever you are ready, there are 2 ways I can help you:

✏️ 1. The Visual Facilitation Online Course + Playbook: Unlock an engaging toolbox filled easy-to-use visuals. You will learn how to create memorable visuals for your coaching calls, in-person events or even your online course.
LEARN MORE

✏️ 2. Private Coaching Sessions: Are you feeling stuck in your business? Do you feel like you have hit a plateau or can't seem to grow? Or maybe you are just starting out and you're not sure how to get your business off the ground. Whatever your situatio...

What is Visual Facilitation and how might you use it in your career? Here at the Center for Visual Facilitation we offer a unique learning pathway for Facilitators, Trainers and Leaders who are ready to take their career to the next level as a Visual & Virtual Champion.

I had the wonderful privilege of speaking at the "Power of Visuals' weekathon. Here are some of the things I covered to explain the power of Visual Facilitation and how you might want to add this skill to your toolkit as your head into next year.

I started my talk by sharing some of the visual templates I use for Visual Facilitation. Visual Facilitation is a powerful tool for critical thinking, problem solving and strategic planning. 

We looked at some of the visual templates and how you can use them to add different kinds of meaning. For example this drawing of a four team members could be used for team building, identifying the strengths of different team members or this template could be used to represent your cus...

Welcome to part one in series where we will be talking about creating our 2021 Launch Plan for next year. First of all, we will be looking at the Top 10 Skills of the Future.

According to the third edition of the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report, half of us will need to reskill in the next five years, as the "double-disruption" of the economic impacts of the pandemic and increasing automation transforming jobs takes hold.

Let's take a look at what they say are the top skills you will need when planning for the future.

Whenever you are ready, there are 2 ways I can help you:

✏️ 1. The Visual Facilitation Online Course + Playbook: Unlock an engaging toolbox filled easy-to-use visuals. You will learn how to create memorable visuals for your coaching calls, in-person events or even your online course.
LEARN MORE

✏️ 2. Private Coaching Sessions: Are you feeling stuck in your business? Do you feel like you have hit a plateau or can't seem to grow? Or maybe you are just st...

Today I want to talk about leading from the whiteboard and what does that look like in this new hybrid meeting environment. Now more than ever as a Facilitator, Leader and Trainer, it is important to lead teams regardless of where your participants are located.

As the Facilitator of an event, you are not only responsible for the agenda but also the engagement that happens both in-person and online. And you are also responsible for the outcome of the event. I want to show you how I lead events from the whiteboard even on a zoom call.

Welcome to my digital flip chart. This is an essential tool I use for facilitating groups large and small. Let's look a recent Innovation Icebreaker I did with the students inside the Center for Visual Facilitation. This is a simple activity you can do yourself. 

Start by asking the participants, "What hats are you wearing?" And then as the participants share their answers popcorn style, you can write their answers on the flip chart. This is a great acti...

Practice makes perfect. And it takes a lot of work to make something look so easy. 

I began my career as a Graphic Facilitator for Ernst & Young in 1996 and over the years I have evolved into an Innovation Strategist partnering with others to bring ideas to life. I absolutely love working with individuals and teams applying my creative superpowers to think through processes, strategies and new products.

In this mini lesson, I want to introduce you to a mini lesson on how to use visual thinking to work through strategies yourself. It all starts with getting your ideas on paper. But how do you do that?

So many people say to me, "Whatever you do don't ask me to draw, I'm terrible."

I promise you Visual thinking is not about drawing; it's about IDEAS!!

I created a mini lesson using 6 simple icons you can use to start to unlock your creative thinking skills too. Are you ready to start getting your ideas on paper?

Whenever you are ready, there are 2 ways I can help you:

✏️ 1. The Vis...

In business we often talk about transformation and as a visual thinking expert, I am always looking for metaphors that match the word. When you think about transformation it is such a huge concept and does not happen overnight. Today I want to introduce you the Iceberg Metaphor we use in the Center for Visual Facilitation. The Iceberg is a great visual metaphor you can use for transformation.  With the iceberg,  there are elements above the water that everyone can see, but there is so much more of the iceberg under the water that people can't see from the surface.

When you look at the iceberg, at the very top is your purpose which represents the impact I want to have in the world. The next layer is your dream client... who are the people you want to serve? Below that are the products & services that you offer your clients.

Then we arrive at the bottom layers, which are very important elements to running my business that no one really sees.

The first one is time management. How are...

Today I want to talk about your virtual backdrop. Some of us are still working from home while others have transitioned to the work environment. And if you are back at work, your organization might be building great backdrops for you.

As you are setting up your virtual training spaces
remember this, "Everything speaks."

If you are a facilitator, trainer or leader, who is leading sessions that are in-person, online or even a hybrid of in-person and online, I want to talk about your backdrop. When you are setting up take a moment and think about your space, more specifically your backdrop.

1. How does your backdrop reflect you as a trainer?

2. How does your backdrop set the tone?

For example, in this video I have a nice clean open backdrop with lots of white space. I purposely want the space open for brainstorming and ideation during an upcoming Visual Facilitation Training Framework Session I am teaching. In the space, I have set up markers, flip-charts and post-its. I also have st...