AMED Workshop on Performance Development, Bath, 7th September 2005
Here are Five pictures that were inspired by the various subjects discussed on the day. Their purpose is to trigger further productive conversations. Each thumbnail has a larger printable version attached. Print out the pictures and display them on the wall in your office,or have them lying around on the table at a meeting, or explicitly engage a colleague in a discussion. Please let me know if these pictures do spark off any new trains of thought or informal discussions with your colleagues. If you would like a high quality colour version please contact me.

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Visual Dialogue
Visual Dialogue is a process in which pictures are used to encourage people to speak more specifically and personally about their work. This naturally promotes sharing of experience which is the key to developing the better working relationships that lead to improving performance.

The biggest barrier to change is the way we talk about it!
My experience is that in many organisations conversations on change can be smothered in abstractions, generalisations and theories. The language used is distant and vague. The result is that meetings and workshops become disconnected from People's experience leading to confusion, a lack of clarity and little or no action. Yet the difficult but important subjects are avoided, or made safe and unthreatening by generalisations in which the truth gets hidden away and lost. This way of speaking is so ingrained that we are barely aware that we do it. The process of making and using pictures is a powerful way to change the way people talk at work about what is really important.

Other projects and paintings

Recent exhibtion at the London School of Economics
Project on Voice and Change
One CEO's view on the role of dialogue in leading change
A conference on Trust in politics
The elephant under the table
The role of language in leadership
A conference on the NHS and complexity theory
A satirical look at 360 feedback

To see more examples of graphic facilitation outputs from other workshops and conferences go to my home page
for further information please contact Julian Burton
077 9000 7560
julian@delta7.com