CCL Webinars
Visual Explorer: A Tool for Making Sense of Complex Organizational Challenges Using Creative Dialogue
When: Available on Demand 24 x 7 for 15 days upon registration
Duration: 1 hour
Price: $75 Premium Members Price $25 
CCL Webinar Registration
Visual Explorer: A Tool for Making Sense of Complex Organizational Challenges Using Creative Dialogue
For more information, email webinars@ccl.org
View computer requirements for participating in this webinar
Have you ever been frustrated in getting a group to pay attention to something important? What do you do when people talk past each other? Visual Explorer is a versatile method for helping people to listen deeply to each other. It's a way to help people picture their ideas in the form of images, metaphors, and stories. And, it's a way for getting people to pay attention to ideas, emotions, and intuitions. Visual Explorer also supports integration of ideas into bigger pictures.
The Visual Explorer tool itself consists of a loose-leaf deck of 224 color images printed on letter-sized heavyweight paper. The images are quite diverse in content, cultural context, and artistic media (photography, painting, sculpture), and have been selected for their ability to connect literally and (especially) metaphorically with a wide variety of topics.
Visual Explorer and the research behind it is described in Palus and Horth's book Leading Creatively. Visual Explorer is also featured as a tool for organizational change in The Change Handbook, 2nd Ed.
In this session you will:
- Learn what Visual Explorer is, the principles behind it, and when to use it.
- Experience Visual Explorer as a participant in a live online dialogue.
- Hear about examples of diverse applications including new online coaching options.
Maximizing the Value of the Webinar
- Invite others to participate. Structure a group "lunch and learn" session and invite other colleagues to attend.
- Debrief the lessons learned. Set aside time at the end of the Webinar to discuss takeaways, and how they apply to your group or organization
- Tap into your training budget. Ask your HR group or manager to underwrite the Webinar as part of your organization's ongoing staff development effort.
About the Presenters
David Magellan Horth is a Senior Enterprise Associate at the Center for Creative Leadership® in the Design & Evaluation Center. His main contributions are as a program designer, facilitator, and author. David co-authored The Leader's Edge: Six Creative Competencies for Navigating Complex Challenges (2002), and led the development of Leading Creatively, a five-day experiential program for developing creative leadership. He co-designed Navigating Complex Challenges - a 12 week process for helping senior managers develop the skills for making sense of and taking robust action on their most pressing organizational issues. David is an accomplished trainer in a range of custom and open-enrollment programs, including the Leadership Development Program (LDP)® and the Looking Glass Experience. His fluency with both the technical and administrative aspects of business is a major asset in his work as a designer, facilitator, and executive coach for senior managers in client organizations. David is considered worldwide to be a subject matter expert on organizational creativity.
Charles (Chuck) Palus is Manager of the Connected Leadership Project at the Center for Creative Leadership® in Greensboro, NC. As a research scientist, Chuck's focus is on how leadership is created and maintained among people working together on complex challenges. Chuck is lead researcher and co-designer of Leading Creatively, a five-day experiential program for developing creative leadership, and Facing and Solving Complex Challenges, a custom program for developing connected leadership. His publications include Making Common Sense: Leadership as Meaning-making in a Community of Practice and The Leader's Edge: Six Creative Competencies for Exploring Complex Challenges, both co-authored with fellow Center staff members. Chuck is also co-developer of the leadership tool Visual Explorer: Picturing Approaches to Complex Challenges.
Join myCCL