Training, Visual Empathy
“Who is your training for?” I ask participants in module 3 of my trainings. Most of my participants offer training in the field of communication, empathy or self-development. Basically a large audience can benefit from participating. A painful smile...
Training, Visual Empathy
Have you been a student to a professor, or a participant to a trainer who had excellent knowledge to share, but somehow it was really difficult for you to integrate their valuable teaching. Did you ever discover what made it difficult for you before you became a...
Digital presentations, Facilitation, Visual Empathy
The fact is, technical errors during presentations always come unexpected. But your solution may be ready – if off course, you are known with what may happen while you facilitate your digital presentation. This video is a 12 minute piece of a video from my...
Digital presentations, Training, Visual Empathy
Little time and only one or a couple of visuals available.You recall such a situation don’t you? Creating an attractive title page for you presentation doesn’t have to be neither complex nor expensive. Even with one single image you made yourself or found...
Digital presentations, Training, Visual Empathy
Keeping the attention of your audience is a challenge all speakers face. You can use many strategies to get the attention of your audience and lead them to engage themselves, but that doesn’t mean any of it will work. In this video I talk about why that is so...
Digital presentations, Training, Visual Empathy
Not only do these principles change the look of your presentation, they actually help you make choices that make designing a whole lot easier. If any of these feedbacks may apply also on your presentations, I am sure watching the video will make a difference for you....
Facilitation, Impact, Training, Visual Empathy
When you run workshops or lead trainings, their is so much to think of, attend to and handle as a facilitator but also as a teacher. If you are working as en entrepreneur, there is even much more to think of because your existential needs might depend on how well your...
Coaching, Facilitation, Visual Empathy, Visual Tools
Are you curious to find out what the impact, the effect or result is once people participated in your program? I guess so. Or actually, I hope so. I love receiving messages from my participants and clients about the shift they made because of the work we did together....
Coaching, Facilitation, Visual Empathy, Visual Tools
If you read my post from last week, you may have identified your reason(s) to start creating visual templates. Reading that post may have gotten you curious about the process of creating visual templates. You may wonder how to create them, what to consider, what the...
Impact, Visual Empathy
Do your participants smile when they see witty solutions in your communication tools? I guess they do. In most situations, people like to be triggered in a positive way. If that’s what you do for your participants, you are actually strengthening your ...
Emotional Intelligence, Impact, Training
I sit in the tea house where I am typing up this post. It’s a peaceful place, not to quiet and not to loud in any way. The table is covered with tea, notebook, markers, my phone my iPad. SHORTCUT: START READING BELOW THE NEXT IMAGE In front of me on the couch, an...
Coaching, Facilitation, Leadership, Training
Among the participants that attend my trainings, I see a range of leadership roles. Though some clearly identify themselves as coaches for example, at times during group sessions or masterclasses they offer, they are actually wearing a trainer hat. If you identify...
Coaching, Training, Visual Empathy, Visual Skills
If you read my previous post on the pitfalls of why you stop taking visual notes after a few attempts and you thought ‘Oh that sounds like me!’, then read on. In today’s post I am offering you a playful strategy to help you get out of any of the pitfalls you fall into...
Coaching, Emotional Intelligence, Training, Visual Empathy, Visual Skills
‘It’s so hard to capture the whole conversation in my visual notes.’ ‘It is. So why do you try to capture everything then?’ I ask in return. ‘Because I don’t want to miss anything important.’ Wanting to capture the capture the whole conversation and not making...
Coaching, Training, Visual Empathy, Visual Skills
‘How do I start making visual note-taking a practice?’ During the Visual Skills Summer Fest Slovenia a participant asked me this question. There is a difference between how to make the noting a practice and the practicing taking meaningful visual notes. Today...
Coaching, Training, Visual Skills
When you can’t get your message across visually, you risk loosing your visually learning audience. And a lot of fun as well! When I speak to former participants of any of my visual skills training, I hear either about the progress they make, the increased results they...
Coaching, Training, Visual Empathy, Visual Skills
‘Can I take a photo of these sketches, so I can recall our conversation in moments I feel down again?’ This is what my coachee asked last week when I coached him. He had a hard time regulating his emotions after a rather sudden break up with his partner with whom he...
Coaching, Emotional Intelligence, Training, Visual Empathy, Visual Skills
If you don’t know how you personally learn effectively you don’t make the progress you wish to have. Especially when you are a visual learner and/or practitioner, like a visual facilitator, graphic recorder, designer, illustrator or coach, it is...
Coaching, Emotional Intelligence, Training, Visual Empathy
You know you have more to offer but you stand in your own way of expanding your visual skills. You’ve got some or a lot of experience in using your visual skills in work and daily life. Your clients appreciate your effort and ability to communicate visually...
Coaching, Emotional Intelligence, Training, Visual Empathy, Visual Skills
At some point you decided to learn more about visual expression, growing your visual vocabulary and learn ways to apply your visual skills in your work. Perhaps for the purpose of visual facilitation, maybe you started to design flipcharts, or perhaps your...
Emotional Intelligence, Impact, Leadership, Training, Visual Empathy
When you don’t get the feedback you need to develop your visual tools and to expand your visual skills, then how do you assess your effort creating them was meaningful and your impact what you envisioned? One of the keys development is feedback. Without it you...
Coaching, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership
When we become aware of a need we long to be fulfilled, can we still speak of ‘in absence of…(love / touch / acknowledgement / connection / companionship / affection / etc….’? Hasn’t life just presented this life quality to us –...
Coaching, Training, Visual Empathy, Visual Skills
‘Huh?’ Yes. It’s possible to take visual notes like a cook. Their approach to cooking is an excellent metaphor to present to you 5 principles for taking – and sharing – visual notes with your coaching clients. Conversations with coaches and...
Emotional Intelligence, Facilitation
Social distancing can evoke feelings of loneliness, disconnection and despair. It’s important to our well-being that we maintain connection with others. Endless phone conversations might not be what you are looking for, however, a relatively short, but nurturing...
Emotional Intelligence, Facilitation, Training
When you understand the five modes of empathy, you can start to see and appreciate the empathy you actually already experience but didn’t recognize before. Empathy is one of those large topics we can hear and read about a lot, yet I think many would agree with me, our...
Impact, Training, Visual Empathy
Isn’t it wonderful to hear at the end of a training participants learned a lot, something new or perhaps only one thing, but so powerful it’s just what they had been looking for? Your satisfaction and their is high. The energy is high and everyone has good hopes to...
Coaching, Emotional Intelligence, Training, Visual Empathy, Visual Skills
How many times did you feel guilty or at least frustrated that again you did something else instead of practicing drawing like you intended? Even tough you might draw a lot or frequent in your work, that doesn’t mean you actually practice. Repeating what you already...