Strategic Storyboarding

• How much time could you save in your strategic planning sessions?
• How much more effective would your team be?
• How much could you do if it your team made faster and better choices?

“Top Three How To Techniques To Storyboard Your Next Meeting”

• Tip: Write just the few key words to define each idea. Write so anyone can read the idea—print key words and stay on a horizontal level. If you squish in extra ideas, write upside down and create sloppy notes, 

• Tip: Use color to highlight ideas. Highlight your top ideas in yellow. Bright yellow makes ideas pop out with this easy-to-see color.If you want to further organize the details of your storyboard, use the same color to mark related ideas. For example, use green to mark the ideas that are related to money. Blue for ideas related to systems. Use red for areas that are alert zones, danger zones or potential problem areas.
  

• Tip: In addition to color, use shapes to mark ideas and identify patterns. Use shapes to mark different concepts—such as “stars” for critical issues. Make your storyboard memorable with just these two methods: color and shapes.

Your storyboard charts encourage wide participation, manage comments, record opinions and guide group decision-making.

If you’re wondering where you could use a storyboard process…here’s a few places to get you going:

Powerful strategy gets people talking:

• Engage your team with focus on what’s the project scope
• Brainstorm the nature of your core business
• Facilitate feedback on your business value reason
• Promote live discussion with customers you serve
• dentify principles and values guiding business operation Get fast results with long range planning:
• Define steps for carrying out your mission, vision and strategy
• Focus on specific milestones to achieve future goals
• Navigate responses to changing conditions
• Identify major categories for project deliverables
• Prioritize and make tough decisions
• Analyze strengths, threats, opportunities and problems Jump into performance and tactical planning:
• Anchor key learnings as your project progresses
• Map participant implementation issues
• Navigate nitty-gritty concerns and resolve conflicts
• Promote participatory decision-making
• Spot patterns and trends
• Make faster decisions

Yes, it’s true. Storyboards help groups solve problems, have shorter meetings and make smarter decisions. Your team can get more done using this interactive visual technique. Storyboarding involves every person on the team, at every stage of the project. From start to finish. From concept to review.

“What’s The Fastest Way To Go From Idea to Action?”

• Use storyboarding to shorten your idea-to-action time.
• Use it when you’ve got ideas that you need to communicate.
• Show exactly how you will bring a product to market.
• Map out a strategy you want to sell to your boss.
• Organize your thoughts and plans for sharing strategy with investors.

This tool can help you simplify your ideas and communicate them effectively to any audience. The actual board makes your idea believable and tangible. You can use your storyboards to get people to care about your ideas and jump in whole-heartedly to your plan. The stronger your story, the more people are inspired to act on your idea. It all starts with using the fast, easy technique of storyboarding. No more wondering how to make better choices and faster decisions in your next planning meeting. Use this method to record and show discussion… and you’ll find team members saying exactly the words that are music to your ears, “I see what you mean!”