B) Visual Power Series

Red Belt: Back of the Napkin (VSP 1 RB)


Description
The RED BELT beginning course is your opportunity to unleash the visual genius of your own mind. You will radically improve your ability to clarify, simplify, comprehend, and communicate any concept, no matter how complex. After this course, your ideas will be clearer, your pitches more compelling, and your ability to cut through the noise will be unequaled.

How is this possible? Through understanding the neuromechanical science of vision, you will come to see why the human brain craves the clarity of pictures. More importantly, you which see exactly which pictures to create in which order to clarify any concept, no matter how complex.

In this course, you will learn to:

Clarify any concept be seizing the power of your visual mind.
Rediscover your innate visual confidence by practicing the simple Visual Alphabet.
Reconnect with your visual mind, you brain's most powerful processing system.
Learn just six simple pictures you can use in minutes to break through complexity.
Craft a breakthrough PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides doc with just seven pages!
This is the entire core course that Dan has delivered hundreds of times to many of the world's most dynamic organizations, now available in its entirety for the first time online.

The Red Belt learning plan includes:

5 lessons containing 42 videos
Just under 4 hours of video content
Quizzes, handouts, and homework assignments to help build your visual thinking skills
Content
  • Welcome to Red Belt - Read this before your get started!
  • Red Belt: Lesson #1 Why Be Visual
  • Introduction to Why Be Visual - Duration 4:33
  • Test Your Visual Memory - Duration 3:17
  • My Visual Journey - Duration 2:13
  • Your Visual Brain - Duration 3:47
  • The VISUAL THINKING PROCESS - Duration 3:14
  • Red Belt Lesson #1 - Why Be Visual Quiz
  • The Visual Thinking Process Map - Handout
  • Peet's Coffee Visual Strategy - Duration 4:12
  • Visual Memory Test Part 2 - Duration 7:29
  • The 30 Page Picture Quiz - Handout
  • HOMEWORK - Create and upload your professional / personal venn diagram
  • Conclusion Why Be Visual - Duration 1:29
  • Red Belt: Lesson #2 - How To Draw
  • How to draw: introduction, tools and your first sketch - Duration 5:17
  • Drawing the basic visual alphabet - Duration 6:51
  • The advanced visual alphabet - Duration 3:04
  • The Visual Alphabet - Handout
  • Practice your drawing skills - Duration 9:29
  • Red Belt Lesson #2 - Visual Alphabet Quiz
  • The seven building blocks you need to make advanced shapes - Duration 4:42
  • Advanced Shapes - Handout
  • Quick and simple icon library - Duration 4:46
  • Make your shapes look 3-dimensional - Duration 2:14
  • HOMEWORK - Share two drawings
  • Red Belt Lesson #3 - How to Draw People
  • How to start drawing people - Duration 5:09
  • How to draw people - Handout
  • Stick Figures - Duration 3:52
  • Block Figures - Duration 4:11
  • Star_Figures - Duration 3:54
  • Red Belt Lesson #3 - Drawing People Quiz
  • Conclusion and Homework - Duration 3:52
  • HOMEWORK - Share two drawings from this lesson
  • Red Belt Lesson #4 - What to Draw
  • Introducing the 6x6 - Duration 3:00
  • The 6x6 step by step - Duration 6:41
  • Drawing the 6x6 - Duration 5:19
  • The 6 x 6 Picture Wheel - Handout
  • The process of vision - Duration 8:29
  • The 6 x 6 Visual Framework - Handout
  • Drawing the pictures - Duration 3:25
  • How to draw the 6 x 6 pictures - Handout
  • Pick a problem - Duration 10:18
  • Drawing PORTRAITS - Duration 8:01
  • Drawing CHARTS - Duration 7:50
  • Drawing MAPS - Duration 10:42
  • Drawing TIMELINES - Duration 8:27
  • Let's talk about Trigger Words - Duration 2:51
  • The 6 x 6 Trigger Words - Handout
  • Drawing FLOWCHARTS - Duration 8:11
  • Drawing the VISUAL EQUATION - Duration 6:13
  • Red Belt Lesson #4 - 6x6 Quiz
  • Congrats you've done it - Duration 3:07
  • HOMEWORK - Share your 6x6 Visual Clarification Story
  • Red Belt: Lesson #5 Draw to Solve
  • Applying visual thinking - Duration 2:26
  • The pen color test - Duration 7:20
  • Red Belt Lesson #5 - Pen Color Quiz
  • 3 Stories - Duration 16:47
  • The Visual Story Framework - Handout
  • The VISUAL STORY FRAMEWORK - Duration 4:17
  • The whiteboard_drawings - Duration 7:36
  • Create a digital presentation - Duration 7:56
  • Engage with digital mark-up - Duration 10:43
  • Visual Clarity Superstar - Duration 4:23
  • HOMEWORK - Share your Digital Visual Story
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
  • Leads to a certificate with a duration: Forever