This colorful, offbeat business guide—sort of THINKERTOYS meets SARK—shows how to add zip, interaction, and excitement to just about any kind of meeting or presentation. The author has helped everyone from engineers to corporate planners create stunning visual presentations, showing them how to use visual symbols and color to map out ideas, plans, projections, and the like. Even if you can't draw a straight line, this book will have you doodling away like a pro in no time flat, and turning the most boring planning sessions into whiz-bang think tanks. Even the most pinstriped project teams have found these tools useful when mapping out strategic plans, capturing vision sessions, depicting project designs, or making training programs fun and memorable. Real-life success stories and step-by-step drawing hints make this the must-have book for managers, facilitators, trainers, and anyone who helps groups work together.
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The purpose of this book is to demonstrate in easy, concrete steps that anyone can draw well enough to enhance his or her communication skills. Milly Sonneman takes you through initially simple and then progressively more advanced steps that can teach any person, in spite of self-doubts, how to make compelling drawings that will clarify ideas and make them more interesting. Sonneman stresses that your body already knows how to draw and teaches you how to listen to it and learn. This is a fantastic book for teachers, for people who do business presentations, and for anybody who wants to draw for the fun of it!
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Milly Sonneman is the founder of Hands-On Graphics, a graphic communication and training company with clients including many Fortune 500 companies. Milly is committed to helping you connect with your creativity and learning to use a simple graphic language to enhance communication in your work.
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46 of 46 people found the following review helpful
By bluepostcard
Format:Paperback
If you are spending 2 hours to make the perfect PowerPoint, this book gives you the confidence to make your own drawings, pictorals, and basic diagrams on any whiteboard or paper easel. I was a statitican (so you know I can't draw) but often needed to work out ideas of my own and in groups. The simple pictures learned in this book helps everyone understand the discussion that's going on. Connect words, ideas, and your audience with esy to draw colorful pictograms of your ideas.
Not sure if you can draw, the publishers sample made me get the book.
http://www.handsongraphics.com/index.htm
click on animated guy.
30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Milly has been able to show in concise, clear terms and through visual example, how easy it is to draw basic images for illustrating anything. An excellent resource for trainers, presenters and anyone designing flip charts or other graphic materials to aid in communicating a message.An excellent tie-in to the workshops that she conducts around the country.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
By F. Bayley
Format:Paperback
All my 50 years I was convinced i could not draw and I was not artistic. This book proved me wrong. Quickly my intuitive mind grasped the concepts and I started drawing. Folks comment all the time how long I have been drawing. Their jaws drop when I tell them for only a year. This book's style was instrumental in making it easy to enjoy drawing.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Weak on Content and Technique
Very disappointed in the quality of technique and content of this book. I had high expectations based on the reviews and was surprised that this book had very little value. Read more
Published on March 18, 2011 by H. Stubblefield
5.0 out of 5 stars
Definitely a Keeper
I ordered this book as I was preparing to give a workshop on downsizing for senior citizens. I was able to make my concepts understandable and interesting on flip chart paper and... Read more
Published on September 22, 2010 by H. F. Vaughan
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Resource
Easy to follow diagrams and instructions. I am able to quickly locate the information needed. Good investment.
Published on November 17, 2009 by Vickie L. Cussins
4.0 out of 5 stars
Yes, Anyone Can TOO Draw!
Milly R. Sonneman has really done it: written a book that demonstrates in easy, concrete steps that anyone can draw well enough to enhance their communication skills! Read more
Published on April 23, 2008 by Doni Tamblyn
5.0 out of 5 stars
Instant Gratification
All these reviewers are right. I opened the book and within 30 seconds i drew the first picture which looked EXACTLY like the one in the book. Read more
Published on April 3, 2002 by Mark Mian
5.0 out of 5 stars
Exhaustive and fun too
Excellent guide for communicating concepts, ideas, etc.
Published on June 25, 2001 by "more_time_and_money"
5.0 out of 5 stars
I have the confidence that I CAN draw!!
I absolutely love this book!! I couldn't even draw good stick people. Now, watch out!!! I am going to add drawings to my currently "boring corporate" driven lessons and... Read more
Published on October 31, 1998
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