Workshop Facilitators Assistant

Enhance Your Workshops: Supporting Facilitators for Seamless Workshops

Workshop facilitator engaging with participants, displaying visual notes and illustrations, including charts and graphics related to collaboration and change models, enhancing workshop dynamics for effective idea capture and engagement.

There’s A Reason We Say

Maximize Workshop Impact with Professional Facilitator Assistance

Leading a workshop is a multifaceted task that demands full attention and engagement. Our facilitator assistance services are designed to support facilitators in capturing every valuable idea, ensuring no thought is lost, and allowing them to focus on guiding the conversation and the people in the room.

Training Benefits

Why Choose Facilitator Assistance?

Seamless Note – Taking and Visual Storytelling

Seamless Note – Taking and Visual Storytelling

We capture the essence of your workshop discussions visually, creating visual stories that encapsulate every idea and conversation. This means facilitators can concentrate on facilitation without the distraction of taking notes.

Experienced Facilitation Support

Experienced Facilitation Support

With our vast experience in facilitation, we can assist in the preparation and design of workshops. By involving us early, we become a discussion partner, helping to shape the workshop’s direction, questions, and modules for maximum engagement.

Operational Efficiency

Operational Efficiency

From setting up and breaking down modules to capturing outputs on flip charts, we handle the operational aspects, ensuring the workshop runs smoothly. This leaves the facilitator free to focus on delivering an exceptional experience.

Comprehensive Visual Summaries and Reports

Comprehensive Visual Summaries and Reports

Post-workshop, we produce visual summary reports and organize file structures, providing a clear and engaging record of the session’s outcomes. This makes follow-up and implementation more efficient and impactful.

Enhanced Engagement with Visual Tools

Enhanced Engagement with Visual Tools

If engaged early, we create visual templates and tools to boost engagement and creativity. For online workshops, we build detailed onlinemural boards to facilitate smooth, interactive sessions.

Your Right – Hand Partner

Your Right – Hand Partner

Think of us as the Robin to your Batman. We are your right-hand partner, ensuring your workshop is not only more effective and efficient but also more engaging and productive. This translates to a better overall experience for your clients and superior outcomes for their investment.

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

before the event, sparks conversation the visual storytellers group

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…

during the event, facilitators the visual storytellers

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.

after the event, shareable the visual storytellers group

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.