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Learn how to visualize your ideas and make team collaboration more effective.

Michigan Technology Services offers Visual Thinking and instructor-led Agile and Scrum training and coaching through partnerships with Certified Scrum Trainers and Enterprise Coaches, like Stuart Young. Our training takes place at our location in the Farmington Hills/Novi area, 20 miles outside of Detroit, or at your location anywhere around the world. Our Agile workshops and Agile coaching sessions can also be offered online/virtually, reducing your need to travel.

Whether you wish to enhance visual thinking skills, simplify messaging and create a shared vision, gain the confidence you need to draw live in front of an audience, or engage key stakeholders with a captivating visualizations, our Visual Thinking workshop is for you.

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Move beyond simple bullet points and the canned PowerPoint presentation.

Learn basic drawing techniques to build a visual vocabulary that can be used to generate ideas, accelerate learning and solve problems with your teams.

By applying visualization techniques our Visual Thinking workshop will help you speed up and improve your ability to present an idea, build low-fidelity prototypes and add business value.

About your workshop facilitator:
Stuart YoungStuart Young – Live Illustrator, Business Visualizer and Trainer

Stuart is a professional trainer, consultant and visual practitioner. He specializes in Agile, Product, Visual Facilitation and Emotional intelligence, offering a range of certified and non-certified training programs complemented by Visual Storytelling services.  He has harnessed his creative skills to translate concepts and processes into engaging visuals during workshops, events and conferences. By combining both creative and analytical skills Stuart contributes to team visioning/ planning workshops and retrospectives by offering captivating visuals that crystallize ideas and learning.

His mission is to inspire growth, foster resilience, and empower teams to navigate complexity with confidence, enabling individuals to connect, communicate, and collaborate more effectively.

Join us and learn about visual thinking.

Visual Thinking Workshop Topics:

Part 1: The Theory of Visual Thinking and Drawing Deep Dive

We will focus on the why of Visual Thinking before progressing with drawing techniques and top tips. By the end of this section of the course, you will have a bank of reusable images to master and evolve.

  • Building a visual vocabulary, objects, icons & figures

Part 2: Building your Visual Thinking Toolbox

We will focus on some key aspects of Visual Thinking including…

  • Containers, connectors & banners
  • Lettering techniques
  • Layout, structure patterns & flow

You now have all of the ingredients necessary to tell an impactful visual story.

Part 3: Visual Facilitation and Active listening

During this final module, we will run active listening exercises before simulating idea mapping and problem-solving exercises with the use of online graphic templates.

  • Active listening techniques
  • The use of Graphic Templates
  • Visual facilitation simulation

Now you have the ability to embrace group diversity and convergent thinking virtually.

Schedule:

Our Visual Thinking workshop will take place on Monday, March 17, 2025. While we are located in Farmington Hills the March Visual Thinking workshop will be instructor led, live online/virtual.

** Note **  Our last workshop SOLD OUT!   Participants raved about it. Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson joined Stuart to add to the conversation.

Want a one or two day Visual Thinking workshop for your organization?  We can help.

Private classes for groups are available upon request. Call 248-489-0408 for details.

 

Course Schedule

Private, Corporate or Group Training Available

Early-Bird Price: $445

Regular Price: $495

Date(s) Days Time Type
3/17/25 M 9:00am - 5:00pm

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Note: All times are EST

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