Get People Talking with Visual Notetaking!!

Have you ever facilitated a meeting or a focus group and struggled to get people talking? I don’t have to tell you how important communication is, but I can tell you some of the ways Visual Notetaking can improve communication within your organisation.

1. Feeling Heard

When we ask people to share their thoughts and opinions, it's important that they know that they are being listened to. If you have your head buried in your laptop taking notes, it limits your capacity to be an active listener. By having a Visual Notetaker in the room, you are free to listen carefully whilst I take the notes.

Even better, when people see their contributions illustrated on the canvas, they have tangible proof that they are being heard and what they say matters!

2. Breaking the Ice

Speaking up in front of peers and colleagues is intimidating, especially when it comes to making changes or improvements in an organisation. Visual Notetaking can help bring the focus away from the individual and breaks the tension in the room. This gives people the space to share their thoughts freely.

Visual Notetaking creates opportunities for team building and togetherness as my illustrations develop.

3. Good-bye Boredom

Drawing is fun, and watching a professional illustrate a conversation unlocks and spark of imagination even in the most unenthused participants. Work days can become monotonous, but bringing a Visual Note-taker into the room interrupts and the cycles of boredom and gets people excited to see their thoughts come to life through colourful illustrations.

Things don’t always have to be so serious at work, and Visual Notetaking is a guaranteed way to make things fun.

Check out what the teenages of Finglas had to say about educational values:

Over the past 3 years of working as a Visual Note-taker, I have seen how my illustrations have enlivened even the most resistant of communicators. The simple act of drawing what people say, brings people out of their shell, sparks their imagination and shows them they are being listened to.

Don’t believe me? Try it for yourself, get a quote today.