By | Dorie Clark | Duke & Columbia Business Prof; Ranked #1 Communication Coach; HBR Author; Top 50 Business Thinker in World – Thinkers50
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On the last day of 2020, I spoke with visual communication expert Todd Cherches on the subject of what he has termed “visual leadership.” Todd’s methods make communication easier across traditional barriers, and offer new formats to think about effective communication. Here are a few selections from our session last week, and if you’d like to see the entire interview, you can watch the replay here.
Anyone can draw (and you should, because it helps your message be heard more effectively):
“Drawing is a skill that anyone can learn. There’s that saying that if you ask a group of business professionals ‘How many of you could draw?’ None of them raise their hand, maybe one or two. You ask a group of kindergartners, they all raise their hand, right? So, have we lost our skill or our confidence? Pick up a pen and just start sketching and drawing. You get better with practice.
