Visual Learning Playbook: Insights and Sketchnotes to Elevate Your Learning Game
"A Visual Provocation to Fuel Your Journey of Lifelong Learning"
Learning is not a phase or event. It is a lifelong practice. In a constantly changing world, our ability to make sense, learn, unlearn, and relearn is the ultimate advantage, both professionally and personally. This book of hand-drawn sketchnotes (in high resolution) on Learning explores various aspects of being a lifelong learner from mindset to strategies. Ideal for entry level professionals, lifelong learners, senior business leaders, L&D professionals, coaches, facilitators, consultants, trainers and aspiring leaders.
What Does This Pack Include:
- 31+ High-Resolution hand-drawn sketchnotes (HD) covering insights on learning mindset and strategies (PDF)
- You will receive a download link to the PDF via email within a few minutes of your purchase.
Why Sketchnotes?
- Because businesses are too textual and abstract.
- Visual summaries enable quick grasp of ideas and ensures better recall.
- Visuals are great tools to "see ideas" and connections therein
- We remember 65% of what we read AND see (Source: John Medina, Brain Rules)
- Visuals are objects of social conversation that raise attention and engagement.
- Visuals trigger emotions and enable sense making.
Topics Covered
1. Meta-skills to thrive in the age of AI
2. When does real learning happen?
3. Ways to become an effective learner
4. How our brain learns
5. What our brain needs to learn
6. Four ways we learn
7. Mental habits for lifelong learning
8. Three L’s for self-directed learning
9. The best leaders are constant learners
10. Lessons learned on being social
11. Three C’s for leading and learning on social media
12. Three ways social media makes you a better leader
13. Six ways to make sense
14. Five elements of working out loud
15. Work out loud: deepen relationships and create a legacy
16. Five factors that drive job satisfaction
17. Understanding unconscious bias
18. Craftsman spirit
19. Slow media for slow learning
20. Expand the reach of your ideas
21. Micromastery: learn small, learn fast
22. Tiny experiments
23. Share to learn
24. The Neo-Generalist
25. A few principles of thinking clearly
26. Ten ways to have a better conversation
27. Brief map to simplify communication
28. On being an essentialist
29. Reinventing your career in disruptive times
30. How to think like Leonardo Da Vinci
31. Five tips to become a visual thinker
These sketchnotes do not represent the complete ideas and are not meant to be verbatim summaries. These are notes I created for my own learning, and sharing them here so that they can help others learn.
FAQ's
1) What are the potential use cases for this book and HD sketchnotes?
This book is more than a collection of high-resolution visual summaries - it is a visual toolkit for assessing how you learn and how you can improve your learning. Whether you are an individual contributor, a coach, an aspiring leader, or a facilitator, these sketchnotes will spark thinking on learning about how we learn.
Here are some powerful ways to bring these sketchnotes to life:
- Self-Reflection and Learning: Use a sketchnote as a daily or weekly prompt. Pick one that resonates with your current challenges or aspirations. Spend 10 minutes reflecting on what the message means for you.
- Team Conversations and Facilitation: Use sketchnotes as conversation starters in team meetings, off-sites, or leadership huddles.
- Leadership Development Programs: Sketchnotes can serve as learning artifacts in your internal leadership journeys.
- Print and Display as Objects of Conversation: These sketchnotes are designed in high resolution for crisp, large-format printing.
- One-on-One Coaching and Mentoring: Whether you're coaching others or being coached, use a relevant sketchnote to unlock insight.
2) How do I access the illustrations I just bought?
Once you’ve completed your purchase, you will receive an email with a link to a PDF file containing all the illustrations.
3) Will this book be updated with new sketchnotes?
We will update the book once every quarter with new sketchnotes and insights. I will mail all my customers, the latest version of the PDF file with new illustrations.
4) Can I use the illustrations I purchased in in my commercial assignments?
These sketchnotes are licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND for non-commercial use to facilitate learning and sharing. Contact me if you wish to use some of these commercially.
5) If I'm not happy with the purchase, can I request a refund?
Unfortunately, due to the nature of the product (digital goods), we are unable to offer refunds.
6) How can I get in touch with you?
You can connect with me directly or use LinkedIn DM to get in touch.
How People Are Using These Sketchnotes?
Visuals connect people with ideas. More importantly, they connect people with each other. Visuals are powerful nudges for behavior change in collaborative contexts. It is always heartening to see #sketchnotes being used around the world to spark conversations, engage people and inspire change. Here are just a few glimpses!