• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Presto Sketching

A book to help you think and communicate better with drawing

  • Home
  • About the book
  • About the author
  • Blog
  • Learn

facilitation

Here’s how your pen can break down walls

12/12/2019 by Ben Crothers

Visualising the barriers to your goals is not only a great way to identify them in a more meaningful way, but also to look at how to break them down.

Filed Under: For meeting leaders and coaches, For project managers and facilitators, Problem solving, Visual strategy and facilitation Tagged With: coaching, facilitation, goals, meetings, problem framing, productivity, strategy, visual metaphor

See a clearer path to your goal with the Build a Bridge framework

01/09/2019 by Ben Crothers

An oldie but an oh-so-goodie: this easy sketch of you – where you are now, and where you want to be – could well be the clarifying galvanising step you’ve been looking for, to finally reach that goal.

Filed Under: For meeting leaders and coaches, For project managers and facilitators, Visual strategy and facilitation Tagged With: bridge, coaching, facilitation, goals, meetings, planning, productivity, strategy, visual metaphor

Solve the right problem with the Problem Pyramid

23/10/2018 by Ben Crothers

Get clarity on a problem to be solved – either by yourself or as a team – by exploring it, reframing it and articulating it in a more insightful way using this simple visual pattern. Ambiguity and confusion? You probably don’t have a proper problem statement Have you ever had those times where you’re lying awake […]

Filed Under: For designers and researchers, For meeting leaders and coaches, For project managers and facilitators, Problem solving, Visual strategy and facilitation Tagged With: business strategy, facilitation, problem framing, product design, product strategy, service design, strategy, visual framework, visual frameworks, visual storytelling

Nail your product strategy with the Product Pyramid

04/05/2018 by Ben Crothers

Features! Story points! Sprints! UIs! It’s all too easy to let the detail of product management drown out the actual product strategy. The Product Pyramid can help. Strategy is a tricky game. The more complicated the product(s), service(s) and business(es), and the more people involved, the trickier things get. Trying to get shared understanding about […]

Filed Under: For designers and researchers, For meeting leaders and coaches, For project managers and facilitators, Problem solving, Visual strategy and facilitation Tagged With: facilitation, product design, product strategy, service design, visual frameworks

3 ways to visualise psychological safety for better team performance

22/01/2018 by Ben Crothers

A team that draws together stays together. Here are 3 ways to get your team doing simple sketches together to forge a greater sense of psychological safety, and to perform better.

Filed Under: For meeting leaders and coaches, For project managers and facilitators, Fun and creativity, Problem solving Tagged With: camaraderie, check-ins, coaching, drawing, facilitation, group drawing, teams, visual metaphor, visual thinking

5 MORE tips for better whiteboarding awesomeness

29/05/2017 by Ben Crothers

Is everyone lost in their own laptops in your meetings? Get everyone focused on what matters with 5 MORE simple whiteboarding tips.

Filed Under: For meeting leaders and coaches, For project managers and facilitators, Getting started, Visual strategy and facilitation Tagged With: facilitation, meetings, tips and tricks, whiteboarding

Here are 4 lines to help you understand any problem

16/04/2017 by Ben Crothers

Spend some time sketching up your problem space in terms of its three parts: rational, emotional and political.

Filed Under: For designers and researchers, For meeting leaders and coaches, For project managers and facilitators, Problem solving, Visual strategy and facilitation Tagged With: coaching, facilitation, problem framing

Primary Sidebar


Cover of Presto Sketching book

Get your copy

  • Amazon: US πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Australia πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί
  • Barnes & Noble: US πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
  • Booktopia: Australia πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί
  • Dymocks: Australia πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί

Recent Posts

  • How AI visualises company visions: the latest
  • Draw more creatively with FLARE
  • How adding a graphic recorder to your event makes it a game changer
  • Volume 2 of Journey Mapping Icons out now!
  • How to construct a great story

Categories

  • For designers and researchers
  • For meeting leaders and coaches
  • For project managers and facilitators
  • Fun and creativity
  • Getting started
  • Problem solving
  • Resources
  • Sketchnoting and graphic recording
  • Visual strategy and facilitation

Also by Ben Crothers

Cover of the book Draw in 4 by Ben Crothers

Cover of the book 50 Remote-Friendly Icebreakers by Ben Crothers

Archives

  • December 2025
  • July 2025
  • June 2025
  • September 2024
  • May 2023
  • August 2022
  • January 2021
  • October 2020
  • December 2019
  • September 2019
  • June 2019
  • January 2019
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • May 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • Home
  • About the book
  • About the author
  • Blog
  • Learn

© 2026 Ben Crothers, author of Presto Sketching - a book to help you think and communicate better with drawing.