Visual Teams

Graphic tools and visual solutions for team building and
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(TM) 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.

Autorentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
Graphic tools and visual solutions for team building and development Visual Teams uses visual tools and methods to help teamsboth face-to-face and virtualreach high performance in today's work environment. As teams become more and more global and distributed, visualization provides an important channel of communicationone 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 toolsa 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.

Inhalt

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