Don’t host another boring meeting, that wastes everyone’s time, and doesn’t get any actual work done – Life is too short. What you need is the power of visuals.

You just signed off your third Zoom meeting in a row and it’s time for a break! During your team meeting you aren’t sure if everyone processed what you were saying. In fact, you’re pretty sure Stevie was doing laundry. You’ve been holding your pee for the last 20 minutes, desperately need another cup of caffeine to get through the next meeting, and you need to stretch your neck. This leaves you with just enough time to do some research for solutions to this meeting problem.

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Hi, I’m Kara Williams, a Visual Communicator that helps people leaders turn redundant meetings that lose the attention and focus of the attendees into meetings that are productive and meaningful, where employees have the opportunity to participate and feel heard.

• You may have Googled “ways to make meetings more engaging” and “how to connect with your employees”.
• You’re tired of virtual happy hours.
• Your budget is limited and you can’t keep paying for extravagant team building activities.
• Your canned questions have been received with so/so participation and you aren’t really interested in the answers.

These are decent options but wouldn’t it be easier if you developed an age old skill in order to communicate in the hybrid world? A skill that sparks creativity and enables you to design solutions yourself? A skill that encourages and captures engagement from those in the meetings with you? This skill is centered around drawing visuals!

I was feeling isolated and lonely for months on end after many of us went from full in-person to full remote employment in March 2020. At first, days were heads down and getting my work done all by myself.

Then came the onslaught of meeting invites, taking up my whole calendar if I wasn’t intentional about time-blocking. My days now included attending virtual meetings, where I wasn’t an active participant; which just added to the feeling of loneliness. I was missing the connection that was felt in-person, especially the random team doorway chats that brought us to tears of laughter.

Work was borking and isolating; I was quickly fading and losing excitement for work.

This all changed once:

• My team started being intentional around staying connected
• Scheduled meetings with a specific purpose
• Really leaned into having fun/playing (example: Sending Schitts Creek memes on Teams)
• I started capturing comments from team meetings, department quarterly calls, and Manager Certification Program community calls with live drawings

Start hosting meetings that support getting the work done, are fun, and are beneficial for everyone that’s there.

I got so much out of incorporating drawings to my day to day work that I felt I needed to spread the word! Now I teach leaders how to use visuals to draw people in and design activities for virtual meetings that foster participation and connection.