“Excellent synchronization and a great approach to the topics that were discussed” – this is how one of the participants of the ABSL discussion panels assessed graphic recording during ABSL Diamonds Awards 2022 in Warsaw. The ABSL Diamonds is a meeting of business services leaders, organized by the Association of Business Service Leaders. This sector employs around 400,000 people and is growing very fast. Industry leaders are engaged in attracting and retaining industry talent, which requires a number of activities across many areas. During ABSL Diamonds, industry leaders discussed the current situation, prospects and initiatives for the sector in the area of talent search. The best leaders were rewarded for their pursuit of business excellence and innovation. The meeting finished with ABSL Diamonds Awards gala for all participants. This is not the first time I have been working with ABSL. I have already participated in two huge events for this […]
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“This is one of the best ABSL Summits I’ve seen” I have hear a lot of times this year. And I completely agree, just take a look at the renouwn names of the speakers and the sketch notes of ABSL2022. Just take a look at the names here: Al Gore, Garry Kasparov, Mark Brzezinki and Aleksander Kwaśniewski. Additionally top managers from business service sector, representing companies like Google, Microsoft, Accenture, Amazon, Hitachi, Hewlett, Citi, Mercer, Schaeffler, Randstadt, Roche plus other important speakers both from academic and art world: Katarzyna Kasia, Szczepan Twardoch, Marcin Krupa (Mayor of Katowice) etc. made the event exceptional. But take a look at the schedule: ABSL2022 was 2.5 days of lectures, discussions, short talks and, most of all, networking resulting in valuable outcomes and sketch notes of ABSL2022 Day 0 started with a round table discussion with heads of centers, which broke the ice and gave […]
Visual facilitation is a great tool for big events like conferences or events, but it is also a very useful tool for workshops and offsite meetings, where more interaction and cooperation is needed. I have already prepared graphic recording for a team offsite, which you can see here, but this one is different. This projects was meant for the leadership of the company to help them remember the outcomes of their offsite leadership meeting. My work included preparing a one-page graphic with most important principles from the leadership meeting, which works as a hand-out for all participants. This graphic with Leadership Toolbox has Lencioni’s 5 dysfunctions of a team in the center. That pyramid shows which elements are playing a crucial role in reaching the teams goal. Around the Lencioni’s pyramid you can find equations, matrixes or models for each element: there is the trust equation, the conflict matrix, commitment […]
Growing evidence shows that Nature-based Solutions (NBS) can play a pivotal role in addressing the twin climate and biodiversity crises by delivering ecological, economic and social benefits. Environmentally literate citizens can greatly contribute to building a more sustainable society. Investing in learning about environmental sustainability means shaping a greener and fairer future for all. An EU-funded pilot initiative is proposing NBS learning pathways across schools in Europe, involving hundreds of teachers and thousands of students. Let Nature Be the Solution – European Commission Event hybrid event celebrates this initiative and provides a forum to share ideas and best-practices for the inclusion of interdisciplinary education for sustainability in school curricula. It was also the occasion to celebrate the winners of the first competition awarding teachers for their outstanding work on ‘Nature-based Solutions in Education’. Graphic Recording at this event helped all participants and also late viewers to better understand and remember […]
Digital Citizens Youth Participation is a project organized by Idea Lab and Erasmus+ the main focus of which is to support youth policies in Partner Countries through: – building capacity of youth policies institutions and youth NGOs on participatory youth policies development; – analysing and developing ideas for use of inclusive co-management structures (online and offline); – developing clear youth participation schemes, connecting national and local levels and developing recommendations for youth policies and youth strategies; – contributing to the development of the civil society, through the creation of regional youth policy structures and the implementation of co-management principles; – sharing good practices from youth policy implementation and youth work development; – discussing the current trends (e-participation, other digital tools), strategies, needs of youth policy making, youth participation in Partner Countries and EU. The participants gathered from 8 different countries such as Azerbaijan, Georgia, Italy, Lithuania, Moldova, Slovakia, Poland and […]
Visual recording is a great way to record the result of a meeting or a workshop. Take this example: at a Sales Offsite Meeting at Jodel there was a number of workshops with different stakeholders. Two days of presentations and workshops can be captured in one nice picture. Side note: sketch noting, or visual recording is about visual representation of main points of your event – it can be both a short meeting (like a 1.5h meeting here) or a seminar / webinar which lasts longer. It can also be a visualisation of a process, like here. Now let’s take a look at a 3-day event in sales department. First day was about the basics of the sales department, so visual recording included notes on the presentation and statements of the presenter. The second day was a workshop on positioning in advertising which had no fixed structure but there was […]
This is an example of SCRUM iconographic visualisation. Such an iconographic is an excellent tool to sum up and visualize all information which you can post in your blog article, e-book or in a podcast.
Today I present you my last sketch notes done for a graphic recording assignment for WeInnovators Club – a club full of people fascinated with innovations and the newest technology, who invite innovators so that they can learn about what is happening around and what is future going to look like in various topics. I had pleasure to listen to those very interesting webinars on different topics and to practice graphic recording. After preparing a template, where all the logos and photos of presenters is placed I joined the Zoom meeting and followed the presentation. While listening to it I sketch most important information by combining icons and simple phrases. These represent key points of each presenter and help to visualize the message plus are a very handful tool for later – in case the listeners forget some parts of the webinar or just would like to recollect the whole […]
I had a pleasure to take part in a workshow on diversity and inclusion held by Wunderflats and I took the opportunity to prepare a sketchnote on it. Do you know Wunderflats? This is on of the biggest German company for furnished temporary living. They connect tenants, landlords, and companies, and we accompany them through the process of renting a flat. The company itself is know for its diversity at workplace. They have very clear inclusion strategies and work strongly on having divers and rich environment. What is diversity? Why is it important? Which areas are connected with it? How do Wunderflats ensure that employees feel safe enough to tackle issues connected with no diversity at work? While listining to answers to these questions I used the skill of graphic recording to prepare a sketchnote, which can serve my colleagues to remember what was tackled in the talk. Take a look […]
In my free time I create hand-made watercolour illustrations that will definitely add charm to your book, e-book or presentation. See illustrations on everyday situations, ideal for paper books but also pdf files on various subjects. See illustrations specially made for children’s books – such illustrations will be a great complement to all materials for a young recipient. Maybe you are even looking for a talented illustrator to work with you in publishing your book? Contact me! If you create content explaining natural or scientific phenomena, I will be happy to help you transfer this extremely interesting knowledge with scientific illustrations.