Introduction: Why visual works

This book is all about drawing simple sketches to help you and others to communicate business ideas. The skills can be applied easily in many work situations including team meetings, one-to-one communication and presentations, training or coaching. You may not yet believe that you can draw. However by the word ‘draw’ I’m not talking about being able to produce masterpieces like Leonardo da Vinci. Rather I am referring to the ability to be able to draw perfectly acceptable sketches to a standard that is good enough to get an idea across to others.

Something magical happens when you draw your idea ‘live’

As well as learning to create pre-prepared drawings, you will learn the skills of drawing a ‘live’ picture to ...

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