Visual Facilitation

Course Overview

This is an interactive workshop that bridges the gap between virtual and visual facilitation. While some teams moved to a distributed and remote working environment before the pandemic, we are seeing a significant rise in the number of virtual teams and organizations over the past couple of years. With this, teams may already be facing communication and collaboration challenges, oftentimes exacerbated by distance and lack of accessibility, hindering team culture and progress. Just as with in-person meetings, visuals can play an essential role in supporting teams to a place of alignment, shared understanding, and overall cohesion. In this session we will explore the benefits of using visuals in facilitation, the do’s and don’ts of incorporating visuals in remote facilitation, explore different techniques to increase your visual toolkit, and have a lesson in drawing icons – where you can practice drawing people and icons that are often found in Agile and Scrum environments.

What you will get

• 2.5 hours of engaging and interactive training by a hands-on-practitoner and trainer
• Slides and templates to help you put into practice what you have learned
• Earn 3 Scrum Education Units (of the 20 required), under the “Learning” category, towards your Scrum Alliance certification renewal requirement. https://www.scrumalliance.org/get-certified/scrum-education-units
• A 1-hour follow up ask-me-anything session to ask specific questions after you’ve had time to apply what you’ve learned

Recommended Pre-requisite

• Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner
• Minimum of 1 year of practical experience using Scrum

About the Trainer

Kristi Meredith has worked as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach & Trainer in both the Public and Private Sectors on a range of software, construction, policy and hardware projects. Through her experience, she offers a wide range of services to clients, specializing in Agile & Scrum coaching, team culture & team building, visual management and graphic facilitation, and workshop facilitation. Her objective and passion is to help teams and organizations find alignment and process that enables them to deliver value to customers while also building and sustaining a people-first, positive workplace culture. She is a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) practitioner, Certified Disciplined Agilist, and an expert in the incorporation of visuals in both facilitation and information radiators.