Beyond Words: A Guide to Drawing Out Ideas for People Who Work with Groups (Paperback)

by Milly Sonneman (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
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!

Product Description
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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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press (May 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898159113
• ISBN-13: 978-0898159110
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 7.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #119,578 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surpass your colleagues and engage other in the room, February 19, 2004

By	"bluepostcard" (Easton, PA United States) - See all my reviews

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.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Old Dog can learn new tricks, July 16, 2005

By	F. Bayley "kiteline" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Instant Gratification, April 3, 2002

By	Mark Mian "MM" (Storrs, CT) - See all my reviews

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. I have spent hundreds of dollars on books on drawing - all wasted. The beauty of this book is that every concept is applied instantly and transferred to your brain subliminally.