Creative Workshops and Training

Transform the way you lead and facilitate at work.

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There’s A Reason We Say

Visual Storytelling Is An Invaluable Skill Set For Anyone Looking To Stand Out And Effectively Communicate In Today's Content-Heavy World.

Effective leadership is effective communication. In a world that is constantly meeting, having the skills to effectively lead, facilitate, and capture those meetings helps you be seen, heard, and noticed for that next promotion. Creativity and innovation are critical in this age of AI, and learning to use visual storytelling is an advantage in building more innovation into your teams.

Training Benefits

Why choose our training?

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Enhance Creativity and Innovation

In an era dominated by AI, fostering creativity and innovation is paramount. Our trainings provide the tools and techniques to unleash your creative potential and drive innovative thinking within your teams.

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Improve Communication Skills

Effective communication is at the heart of successful leadership. Our programs equip you with the skills to lead, facilitate, and engage more effectively, ensuring your message is heard and remembered.

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Boost Career Advancement

Stand out in your professional journey. By mastering visual storytelling and communication, you’ll be better positioned for promotions and leadership roles, setting yourself apart in a competitive landscape.

Our Training Programs

Explore Our Training Programs

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Visual Storytelling 101

Dive into the world of visual storytelling and learn how to captivate and engage your audience through the power of visuals. From crafting compelling narratives to designing eye-catching presentations, our training empowers you to leverage the full potential of visual storytelling to communicate your message effectively and leave a lasting impression.

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Communication Secrets Training

Master the art of effective communication with our comprehensive comms training program. From honing your public speaking skills to perfecting your written communication, our training equips you with the tools and techniques you need to communicate with clarity, confidence, and impact.

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Creative Catalyst Program

Develop your team’s skills across all areas of facilitation, visual storytelling, communication and presentation. This program brings together all our trainings in a several week program ensuring your team can be the creative catalysts in your organisation. Inspiring creativity, innovation and efficiency through their new found skills.

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Facilitation Training

Take your facilitation skills to the next level with our dynamic facilitation training program. Whether you’re leading team meetings, workshops, or brainstorming sessions, our training provides you with the strategies and tactics you need to foster collaboration, drive innovation, and achieve meaningful outcomes.

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My team and I partnered with Paul as a live scribe during a culture change workshop with senior stakeholders. It’s rare to have someone who understood facilitation, strategic/management concepts and had the creative flair to capture all of it in a compelling way. Paul took the time to deeply understand the project, client and the intended outcome. He was flexible, adaptable and comfortable creating a positive vibe with all who engaged with him. Completely invaluable and highly recommended!

Sucheta Gorolay

Manager - Bendelta,

Success Stories

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How it works

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Before the Event

Prepare for Picture Perfect-ion

We meet, brainstorm and collaborate with you to ensure the visual notetaking we develop for your event are on brand, meet your needs and guaranteed to wow your audience…

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During the Event

Engage, Educate and Inspire

We’ll take your content and visually propel it to the next level. Capturing all critical presentation points in visual notes, live. Ensuring it is seen, heard and remembered for weeks to come.

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After the Event

Extend Your Event

You will receive digital files of all your graphic recordings allowing you and your audience to relive the session time and again.. Easy share-ability keeps the momentum and buzz building well after your event ends.

SEE OUR WORK

What We Can Do For You

Colorful visual notes from Sonia McDonald on leadership, impact, and personal growth, featuring key phrases like "You are Worthy," "It's a Choice," and "Leadership starts with You," enhancing audience engagement at events.
Visual notes by Steve Sammartino, showcasing key concepts like technology, language, and engagement, with colorful illustrations and text elements emphasizing visual storytelling and audience connection.
Visual notes illustrating a "Culture Playbook" with key concepts such as transparency, partnership, and creating a common language, featuring hand-drawn graphics and text highlighting team collaboration and cultural change strategies.
Visual notes illustrating key concepts from a presentation titled "How to Better Connect with Customers & Retain Top Talent," featuring colorful graphics and text on strategies for effective communication, trust-building, and audience engagement, aligned with The Visual Storytellers Group's services.
Visual note-taking illustration titled "Kill the V Drive," depicting a cartoonish character representing a computer, surrounded by solutions for data management challenges, including "Lockdown Permissions," "Confluence," "Archive It," "SharePoint," and "Software Package Manager," with a celebratory outcome featuring happy characters and colorful balloons.
Covid-19 psychology and suicide research graphic recording highlighting key actions, evidence base, and importance of monitoring mental health impacts, presented at an online symposium.
Colorful visual mind map illustrating the concept of "Working with Agility," featuring keywords and phrases like "challenge your thinking," "personal agility tips," and "leadership agility," alongside doodles of people, cheetahs, and various symbols representing flexibility and adaptability.
Susan Kirby illustrated visual notes for St. Patrick's Festival, featuring key themes such as social change, community, and global impact, with vibrant graphics and text highlighting event details and engagement strategies.
Visual note-taking illustration from TEDx Haymarket 2018, featuring speaker Weh Yeoh, highlighting key themes such as redundancy, communication, and the need for speech therapy, with colorful graphics and text emphasizing audience engagement and problem-solving.

FAQS

Frequently Asked Questions

We highly recommend you alert speakers to our presence at your event. But we don’t really distract from the speakers. It is our job to enhance the experience without taking the limelight away from the speaker. When people see us they ask themselves “What are they doing?” Then when they notice that we are capturing the content of the speaker they are engaged even more as they start to watch the speaker then check what we draw and are almost doubly engaged as they are enthralled by what is going on. Oh, and most keynotes speakers are blown away by our work and tag themselves and share it. While also wanting their own copies of the visual notes.

The ETA of the finished product really depends on the session we are capturing and the outcome you are looking for. Most sessions our visual notes are finished almost at the same time the speaker does maybe just needing another 5 minutes of tidy up. But other times we need another day. It depends on your needs and how busy we are on the day.

No. Most things we visually capture we have no idea what people will say apart from knowing the name of their speech. Keeps us on our toes! And is where our decade plus worth of experience pays off!

We cut our teeth working for the Top 4 Consulting firms working across many industry verticals and horizontals and many Fortune 500 companies. We have drawn for Media outlets, Marketing companies, Banks, Surgery machine companies, Brain injuries and medical research conferences and everything in between.

The answer is probably as expected it depends. It depends on our relationship, how the work will be used, where it will be used and what else we create with you in our bundle of services. Best thing is to request a quote or get on a call with us to discuss all your needs and we can get precise with a quote.

Visual note taking is the method of taking notes visually. Meaning a visual note-taker will listen to a speech, lesson, meeting, keynote, lecture, podcast and draw notes in real-time. They will organise, structure and create their thinking on the page using graphics, colour, shape, line, scale, contrast and connections. This means they aren’t just writing down what people are saying they are thinking and working their mind to take notes. Due to the process of visual note-taking they take more in, remember more and learn better and are able to come back to their notes and use them more effectively after the lesson.

The uses of visual note-taking are broad and varied. From taking your notes at school. To creating vision boards. To studying topics and summarising books. To capturing conference keynotes. To communicating ideas and key messages to organisations, clients or customers. Visual note-taking can be used anywhere you need to think about something and find a better way of organising and communicating it. Even if that is just to help yourself!

That is up to you. As a first port of call we produce digital copies of all the visual stories we capture on the days of your event and send them to you via Dropbox. You can then distribute them to your participants whenever and however you like. Sometimes we work with our clients to produce a specific graphic output pulling all the artwork into a single document that can be shared easily but is much better than sending a link to a Dropbox folder!

Yes! We can. With the superpowers we were given by the aliens of the planet zupora we are able to magically make any information more interesting, engaging and memorable… In all seriousness most things we can make easier to understand, enjoyable to read and more engaging…and if we can’t tell you. But there hasn’t been a topic or content yet that visual storytelling hasn’t enhanced in some way.

Let’s Get To Work!

Boost Attention, Engagement, And Retention At Your Next Event With Visual Storytelling

Win more people over and get them talking about your ideas long after your presentation ends.