Nearly every whiteboard across this great nation is covered in sloppy handwriting and disconnected concepts because of the lack of some simple design concepts. This failure to accurately convey one's thoughts is frustrating to the person attempting to make that conveyance, as well as those to those colalborating. Visual Communication and Drawing Workshops from Big Paper Strategy seek to vastly improve America's conference room output with a new found renaissance of consistent and clearly presented conversations.
We're not out to make artists, just good communicators.
Very honestly, I enjoyed the creative and skill aspects of this program, but the most applicable learning was around the opportunity to practice active listening and communicating points to different audiences. - Michelle Nash -past event attendee
Brainstorming & Innovation Sessions
Big Paper Strategy will assist your organization’s input-based brainstorming and strategic development sessions. Starting from Post-It notes and note taking, Big Paper creates repositionable graphics and idea boards based on brainstorming sprints. Big Paper fosters the acceptance and understanding of the ideas in your conference room.
Your team has a vast array of experiences and abilities that can be released as creativity in an ideation session. Big Paper Strategy can multiply the knowledge and acceptance of those ideas through graphic recording- because ideas can grow and get better when everyone in the room understands them. It's as simple as that.
Your leadership, direction and guidance last night turn the brainstorming session was so much more than I ever thought or imagined! - Bruce Lyman
Besides actign as a visual muse (no I'm not pretty, sorry) Big Paper Strategy can also
- Listen to and ingest research and technology briefs
- Discuss the differences between ideation, innovation, creativity and design thinking
- Run exercises that foster ideation
- Set a Design Goal of a MVP (Minimum Valuable Product)
- Run a miniature Fiercest Competitor Design Workshop
- Assist in Paper Prototyping
The event that introduced me to graphic recording was an innovation session. The multi-day event at a Fortune 500 technology company gathered input from around the world, showcased disruptive technologies and ideas from the company’s technical centers and outsiders, and helped define opportunities for the C-level executives gathered in the room. This is where I shine. - Matt Orley
Whiteboard Selling Design Workshop
Sales Whiteboards are predefined drawing concepts that are used with clients INSTEAD of Power Point by sales teams. The utilization of a whiteboard forces salespeople to engage, to fully understand the material, and provides a perfect opportunity to engage with clients right at a whiteboard.
Big Paper Strategy offers a 2-day session to create a design and train your team in the art of whiteboard selling. Day 1, using an iterative process driven by your sales, marketing, and product management team, we strive to create 1 or more whiteboards that your sales team can use. Day 2, We work to create training materials, and create a dry run to train your first level of sales associates to use this board.
The development of a sales whiteboard by a cross-disciplinary team has several process components:
- Gathering of best-practice messaging
- Fusion of messaging into a whiteboard design
- Build up of graphic in tandem with your common script
- Training your team
Why are we different?
Sales whiteboard design firms (there are only a few) start from the very reasonable experience of a sales background. But Big Paper Strategy starts with Graphic Recording, and infusing customer interaction points (blanks for customers to fill in in tandem with the salesperson) as important components of the board.
Once they take the marker and draw on the board themselves, you got 'em.
Common components of a whiteboard template include product features, customer centric benefits, competitive advantages (with a little bit of visual hyperbole) and of course placing the client into the board to see their own position.
Big Paper Strategy's Matt Orley has a career of diverse experiences including product engineering, mural design, sales experience in industrial manufacturing and web marketing- which all align amazingly well with Big Paper Strategy Whiteboard Consulting.
Fiercest Competitor Design Session
A thriving employee is one that can see opportunities, acts creatively, and comes to work with an enterprising mind set and can succeed in an ever changing situation. This is what we want to create in the 21st century workforce. This workshop intends to break those attitudes with renewed 'there is no box' thinking.
Business Drawing Workshop
Visual Communication is far more impactful than auditory, however many of us carry a fear of drawing that holds us back. Crucial but simple concepts can improve visuals- and that's where we help. After a Big Paper Strategy Business Drawing Workshop, your team will have confidence to get up and draw on your shared whiteboard space and deliver magic and full understanding every time!
Full of hands-on and entertaining instruction and packed with exercises, this 1-to-2-day business drawing workshop is intended for 6 to 20 attendees. Basic drawing skills, tips, tricks and oppotunities for team building start the workshop - followed by a mixture of predefined drawing events. Attendees will draw what others are saying in the room (graphic recording) and then also draw to communicate their own ideas, or those of your organization.
While whiteboards are wonderful (to mimic real life situations), we will also utilize large paper panels hung to walls, laid over tables, and against any solid surface.
Takeaways:
- Develop Courage to Stand in front of Peers with Markers
- Develop Casual Business-Sense Drawing Skills
- Understand Layout and Composition in a Free Form Setting
- Handle Color, Size, Style and Line like a Pro
- Learn how to Distill Conversations into Simple Components
- Enable all Employees to be Visual Communicators!
- Sketching Guide for the top 15 items your Company may Draw (for Consistency in group-think)
Agenda Components (customized):
- Opening Gauge Drawing Exercise
- Multiple Exercises for Drawing Components (Bullets, Printing, Line Use, Color, etc..)
- Drawing of Speaker Discussions
- How to Distill your Listening and Choose What to Draw
- How to Communicate the Big Idea
- Figuring out how to draw your organizations' most important concepts.
Drawing Successful Meetings Workshop
Similar to our Business Drawing Workshop, this workshop focuses on everyday and common meetings, and seeks to increase participation and excitement with a graphic recording element.
This 1-to-2-day workshop makes meetings meaningful. Intended for 6 to 15 attendees who are at least part-time meeting facilitators. Expect drawing skills coupled with the development of meeting canvases templates to keep meetings and projects on track. Met with a mixture of predefined drawing events, attendees will role play meetings and try out drawing methodologies and successful methods (agile scrum, thinking hats, and a dozen others) for maximizing participation.
Large paper panels hung on walls, laid over tables, and against any solid surface, this exciting event is meant to invigorate companies that, quite frankly, don't know how to meet.
Takeaways:
- Develop Courage to lead a Meeting with Markers
- Develop Meeting Ready Drawing Skills
- Understand Layout and Composition in a Free Form Setting
- Handle Color, Size, Style and Line like a Pro
- Learn how to Distill Conversations into Simple Concept Pieces
- Lead meetings in new and exciting ways
Agenda Components (customized):
- Opening Gauge Drawing Exercise
- Multiple Exercises for Drawing Components (Bullets, Printing, Line Use, Color, etc..)
- Business Canvas Review
- Business Canvas Design Competition
- Learn How to Listen for What is Important
- Keep Everyone Involved
Teach Technologies and Innovation Practices through Drawing Workshop
Drawing is the Best Way to Learn. Multi-modal learning that includes drawing forces our brains to grasp and understand and then to visualize and present complex or even simple Concepts.
Big Paper Strategy offers the Emerging Technologies Drawing Workshop in an effort to deliver understanding of new ideas and emerging 21st Century Technologies all through a workshop that savers ideas over art in drawings.
Trying your best to communicate a technical concept to your team, and failing? Big Paper Strategy can help you arrange a teaching session cleverly disguised as a business drawing workshop to help you convey new ideas to your team.
We are huge fans of learning through drawing. Not only does drawing prove whether or not an individual 'gets it', but also provides teams to work together for full understanding of new or confusing topics across all players.
Set up drawing workshop to teach your team about:
- Blockchain
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning
- Internet of Things
- Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0
- Quantum Computing
- Energy Harvesting
- Computational Thinking (yes, we'll get this from STEM!)
- MEMS
- Your Own Technology
