Why take this challenge?

Increasing the sense of being part of a team adventure – seeing our footprints in new territory

Increased options and opportunity for participation and engagement in online meetings

The ability to visibly capture and record ideas for the group while retaining full interpersonal connection

In our Leading by Adventure to date, our focus has been pretty much about adventuring ourselves, and not so much about leading others in their adventures. So in this adventure we are stepping out into that space. We are asking how, in our locked down, remote world of work do we encourage others to join in our adventure. To release in them more joy of discovery and creativity, and to enable them to see their own foot prints in new territory – their contribution to the new reality they are bringing about?

Clearly, if you know me, you will recognise that my stock answer to “how we do this” is through a particular style of facilitation and virtual whiteboards. And one day, it will be. But I am finally coming round to see that most people are not yet ready for that.

And I reflect back to good facilitator colleagues, and what they have managed to achieve simply through questions, conversations and the humble flipchart.

However, the flipchart too has been a casualty of the ‘webcam vs shared screen’ thinking of online meetings.  And that set me to wondering – what if I could build a half-way house? Something that brought the flipchart back to the webcam, and formed a bridge between comforting familiarity and the possibilities of the internet for new ways of collaboration? A way of engaging participation without the disruption of a shared screen. Something that maintained our ‘face’ to ‘faces’ interaction, but still captured and honoured contributions, and gave a sense of progress – like flipcharts always used to.

And so this weeks adventure is to play with what I have created in this space. As always, the adventure is about simply taking another new perspective and see what the possibilities look like from there. What you then do with it is up to you.

You may find the following resources helpful in tackling your challenge or in gaining further benefits from the skills and insights you develop

• Article on “Why” of Virtual Flipcharts
• Article on “How” of Virtual Flipcharts
• Article on better flipcharting

To catch up on past adventures you may have missed, feel free to browse our Adventures Library

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