One of the tools Paper Plane use to facilitate productive meetings and conferences is Graphic Facilitation.

This simply means that information that is shared in the meeting is captured, real time, in large displays on the wall often in a graphical fashion.

And why does it work so well? Because...

• When people’s contributions are recorded onto a large display they can literally SEE that they have been heard. This encourages participation.
• All the information is visible together so it is much easier to understand how different aspects inter-relate. The group can SEE the whole system that they are discussing.
• When the record of the meeting is created in the room, in front of everyone, the agreements that are made are much more likely to stick! When everyone can SEE what they are agreeing to, it gives people an opportunity to speak up if there are still issues to resolve.
• It plays to the fact that people obtain 80% of their information through visual means.