Logo Visual Thinking (LVT™)
What is it?
Visual thinking is a term that covers a whole spectrum of media and practical techniques, many of which are natural to us and are used to advantage in all walks of life such as sketching a plan, drawing with a stick in the sand, moving the salt and pepper pots around on the dining table and so on.
Logo Visual Thinking (LVT™) take these methods a step further by using movable objects to represent each aspect of thought. This enables understanding to be represented as patterns of display from which insight can emerge. It’s incredibly simple!
Just like a child supporting amazing mental images with the aid of a few LEGO™ bricks, or like chess and draughts in which we map and model our emerging strategies, with LVT® we have a universal language for constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing ideas, strategies and plans.
Logo Visual Thinking comes into its own is in adding value in group interactions for many applications including problem solving, project management, strategic thinking and business planning.
The benefits
The benefits that can be derived from using LVT™ in group processes extend beyond the solutions they develop. The physical medium deepens understanding and adds value to the relationship between participants as:
- Everyone is enabled to contribute and all contributions acquire equal value
- Individual contributions quickly become shared material to be used and shaped by the group
- The interactions and dynamics between participants achieve a richness seldom encountered through more conventional means - the method provides a medium of connectivity
- By being physically involved in moving ideas around, discussing and explaining their relationships, people develop shared understanding. Outcomes are thus far more clearly understood and more genuinely bought into
- People develop their ability to think more systemically and holistically and to handle more complexity.
With skilled facilitation a level of collaboration, trust and respect can be fostered that supports truly creative enterprise. Logo Visual Thinking is a highly effective language of thought that’s readily learned. It is easily applied for both personal and group thinking processes.
Our partners Centre for Management Creativity developed this technology and all Erskine staff are accredited in its use along with having all the mobile equipment to facilitate meetings of any size.
Its very cool…