Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance

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This book uses visual tools to explore how high performance teams work. The best teams work like creative designers--and a "design approach" is the key to innovation and productivity. Visual Teams builds on Visual Meetings by showing users how to knit together best practices described in the first book, and turn them into strategies that work across the whole arc of a team's work life. It wouldalso introduce new practices that are specifically designed to support team creation, development, and results. While the overt purpose of the book would be to share visual practices for teams, it would also use visualization to help the reader gain insights into teams in general, introducing to a broad public the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model and related tools -- a system used throughout companies like Nike, Genentech, Becton Dickinson, Chevron and others. Visualization emerges as a power tool for thinking about processes that move across time. The book would also bridge from the old paradigm of thinking of teams as face-to-face and co-located, to distributed teams and networks as part of the teaming challenge. As teams become more and more virtual in today's global organizations, visualization is even more necessary for providing another channel of communication-- one that opens up the group mind to thinking about systems, relationships, interconnections, and big picture contexts and consequences. About The Author David Sibbet (San Francisco, CA; davidsibbett.com; grove.com) is a world leader in the area of graphic facilitation and visual thinking for groups.  He is the founder and president of The Grove, a company whose leading-edge group-process tools and models for panoramic visualization,graphic facilitation, team leadership and organizational transformation are used by consultants around the world, including many Silicon Valley firms.  Sibbet was the "visual cartographer" for the 2008 TED conference, and created mind maps and diagrams of the lectures in real time.  In 2008 The Grove received the 10,000 person OD Network "Members Award" for Creative Contribution to the field of organizational development. Table Of Contents Introduction Imagining Better Results for Teams I. What Is a Visual Team? Using Graphics Across the Whole Workflow 1. Working Like Designers / Why Visual Teams Get Results 2. Why Be a Visual Team? / The Case for Collaboration 3. A Graphic User Interface for Teams / The Drexler/ Sibbet Team Performance Model II. Leading Visual Teams Seeing the BIG Picture 4. So You've Just Been Promoted / Understanding Team Leadership 5. Managing Four Flows of Activity / Attention, Energy, Information, & Operations 6. Supporting Innovation / Providing Visual Tools III. Visual Team Startup Creating Trust, Focus, & Commitment 7. Visualizing Purpose / Orienting to Your Mission 8. Seeing Yourself As a Team / Developing Trust 9. Clarifying Goals / Using the Graphic Gameplan 10. Consensus or Command? / Deciding Commitments IV. Sustaining Results Innovating for High Performance 11. Graphics & Project Management / Implementation You Can Literally See 12. Visualizing & Innovating / Understanding High Performance 13. Assessments, Dialogues, & Sharing Rallies / The Importance of Learning & Renewal V. Growing a Visual Team Culture Thinking BIG About Opportunities 14. Introducing Visual Teams / Communicating Benefits 15. Developing Visual Team Skills / Learning Tips & Tools 16. Shared Visual Language / Toward an Operating System for Visual Teams VI. New Technology Tools A Revolution in Visual Collaboration 17. Visual Tools Come of Age / Experiencing High Performance at the Institute for the Future 18. Graphics for Distributed Teams / Web & Teleconferences 19. Team Rooms & the Net / Physical Places or Virtual Spaces? 20. Mobile Technology / Reshaping Tomorrow's Teams VII. Links, Tools, & Other Resources 21. Websites & Bibliography Appendix Jack R. Gibb's Original Research Summary of Arthur M. Young's Theory of Process Index