What's the best way to provide murals to leadership after a session?

AshleyB

I coach PMs but we need to send "clean" versions of our work that express outcomes of the workshops to senior management. I always make a ppt with a summary. Any tips for how to make this easier? I don't want to send a mural to them but I'd love to be able to copy paste the results of a mural that summarize the outcomes of our session not just a messy board!

[Deleted User]

I might try blocking out the main themes from the session, and find simple icons from the icon search to help illustrate the key points, and make it an easy to scan row of high-level thoughts. Sometime I also quickly add these to the outline if there is more content so folks have an easier navigating the summary.

frabo

We have recently conducted a whole week of mural sessions for a client - intention was to design a new feature for an existing system. This involved a group of independent experts worldwide and we worked ourselves through several murals throughout the week. At the end we were presenting to the management. Instead of doing the usual powerpoint, we simply walked them through the murals in a very brief overview and explained the mural with the main outcome. The reaction was very pleased, as the managers had more information on how decisions were actually taken and found it very convincing that they had much more trust in the decision making process and its outcome.

manuel

I usually create a PowerPoint with screenshots / exports from mural, too. Then I provide the link to the mural for later reference (and to allow them to work on with the mural) and I copy the contents from sticky notes to an Excel file. In that they have "contents text", "category" and "number of votes" for sorting and filtering the results. So, this is quite "raw" in addition to a PowerPoint that migth describe the process and have all of the screenshots with the contents.

I really like the impulse my @mroy! Thank you!

[Deleted User]

Right on @manuel ! Thanks so much for sharing. A lot of times I will wrap up sessions by just asking the team to capture the top three things they learned from our time together. Then I either work with the whole group, or a subset of the group to quickly look for patterns and relationships that will quickly help us turn small sticky note clusters into a high-level outline of a story. Which can then move to PowerPoint, JIRA, or Storyboard frames if we are working towards a video.

[Deleted User]

@manuel Thanks so much for contributing and sharing your knowledge and experiences. It takes a village to keep meetings from crushing souls. :)