Visual Teams Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance
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Biografisk notat
DAVID SIBBET is a world leader in the area of graphic facilitation and visual thinking for groups. He is the founder and president of The Grove Consultants International, a company whose leading-edge group-process tools and services for panoramic visualization, graphic facilitation, team leadership, and organizational transformation are used by consultants and organizations around the world. Sibbet has been the visual cartographer for the TED conference, and is the recipient of the OD Network Members Award for Creative Contribution to the field of organizational development.Visual Teams uses visual tools and methods to help teams—both face-to-face and virtual—reach high performance in today's work environment. As teams become more and more global and distributed, visualization provides an important channel of communication—one that opens up the group's mind to improving work systems and processes by understanding relationships, interconnections, and big picture contexts.
Visual Teams shares best practices and uses visualization as a power tool for process improvement by providing teams with a common language for high performance. The book:
- Explores how any kind of team can draw on the principles and practices of creative design teams in the software, architectural, engineering, and information design professions
- Introduces the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance™ Model and related tools—a system used throughout companies such as Nike, Genentech, Becton Dickinson, Chevron, and others
Visual Teams presents a comprehensive framework, best practices, and unique visual tools for becoming an innovative, high-performance team.
Introduction xi
Imagining Better Results for Teams
I. What is a Visual Team? 1
Using Graphics Across the Whole Workflow
1. Working Like Designers 3
Why Visual Teams Get Results
2. Why Be a Visual Team? 15
The Case for Collaboration
3. A Graphic User Interface for Teams 29
The Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model
II. Leading Visual Teams 55
Seeing the BIG Picture
4. So You’ve Just Been Promoted 57
Understanding Team Leadership
5. Managing Four Flows of Activity 73
Attention, Energy, Information, & Operations
6. Supporting Innovation 83
Providing Visual Tools
III. Visual Team Startup 93
Creating Trust, Focus, & Commitment
7. Visualizing Purpose 95
Orienting to Your Mission
8. Seeing Yourself As a Team 107
Developing Trust
9. Clarifying Goals 117
Using the Graphic Gameplan
10. Consensus or Command? 131
Deciding Commitments
IV. Sustaining Results 149
Innovating for High Performance
11. Graphics & Project Management 151
Implementation You Can Literally See
12. Visualizing & Innovating 159
Understanding High Performance
13. Assessments, Dialogues, & Sharing Rallies 171
The Importance of Learning & Renewal
V. Growing a Visual Team Culture 183
Thinking BIG About Opportunities
14. Introducing Visual Teams 185
Communicating Benefits
15. Developing Visual Team Skills 193
Learning Tips & Tools
16. Shared Visual Language 201
Toward an Operating System for Visual Teams
VI. New Technology Tools 219
A Revolution in Visual Collaboration
17. Visual Tools Come of Age 221
Experiencing High Performance at the Institute for the Future
18. Graphics for Distributed Teams 231
Web & Teleconferences
19. Team Rooms & the Net 241
Physical Places or Virtual Spaces?
20. Mobile Technology 249
Reshaping Tomorrow’s Teams
VII. Links, Tools, & Other Resources 263
21. Websites & Bibliography 265
Appendix 273
Jack R. Gibb’s Original Research 273
Summary of Arthur M. Young’s Theory of Process 274
Index 277
Visualization provides teams with a common language and serves as a powerful tool for improving processes and communicating big picture contexts. Building on the bestseller Visual Meetings, Visual Teams offers graphic tools and strategies for creating teams and sustaining results, whether you are co-located or spread around the world. This book highlights the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model, a tool used throughout such companies as Nike, Genentech, and Becton, Dickinson and Company. The model is a "map" to creating and sustaining high performance in all kinds of teams.
Some of the most creative teams in business are found in the software, architecture, and information-design professions—and the "design approach" of these teams is the key to their creativity and productivity. Visual Teams presents a "design approach" for building and leading an innovative, high-performance team.
"All of us who help teams do systemic, creative work on complex challenges know that it is essential for these teams to make their thinking visible. In this excellent book, visual-thinking pioneer David Sibbet shows us how."
—Adam Kahane, Reos Partners author of Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change
"Like David's own graphics, this book layersconcrete practices and abstract theories, historical insights, and visions of future possibilities. The book is a master's course in a kind of teamwork that's uniquely suited to our times."
—Kathi Vian The Institute for the Future
"David Sibbet is the world's master teacher in graphic facilitation. In this landmark work he is insightful, entertaining and practical as he helps teams, team leaders, and consultants improve team performance by making it visual."
—Allan Drexler Quality Team Performance
"David is a pioneer in the field of visual thinking and team effectiveness. In Visual Teams, he shares both a hard-won wisdom and the nitty-gritty about what it really takes to ensure that your great ideas prevail."
—Hilary Austen professor, consultant, and author of Artistry Unleashed: A Guide to Pursuing Great Performance in Work and Life
"Visuals nurture the heart as well as the mind. In Visual Teams David brilliantly demonstrates the power of graphics to foster inspiration, alignment, and results—a unique and exciting journey into the joys and challenges of teamwork."
—Meryem Le Saget Meryem Le Saget Consulting, Paris