Do you train, present or facilitate?
- Fed up with humdrum PowerPoint and boring flipcharts?
- Looking for fresh, innovative ways to get your message across?
- Itching for more creativity in your work?
Communicate with Clarity, Get Your Message Across
- Enhanced engagement and participation in meetings and workshops
- Stand out and get noticed for what you do (in a good way!)
- Colour, fun and energy in your work with groups
- A deeper connection to the people you work with
- Learning boosted for visual thinkers
- New joy in your work
Emer brings fun and joy to a subject that many people find challenging – drawing. Her knowledge and approach have really helped me. From flipchart to digital Emer’s courses have been excellent. I’d recommended her – especially if you think “I can't draw"
Emma J Williams, Researcher Development | Author | Speaker,
Let's end Death by PowerPoint once and for all!
I have trained hundreds of people in visual thinking/simple graphics since 2014. It started as a one and two day face to face course, then in 2020 it turned into a virtual 6 week programme. 2023 saw the launch of the online Secrets of Simple Graphics Toolkit. Now I offer all three variations of training. From teachers to trainers to community leaders to corporate leaders, everyone benefits from skills in creating simple, hand drawn imagery.
What You'll Learn
- The 'building blocks' of graphics - lettering, icons, people and more
- How to create a One Pager for meetings, trainings and events
- Different visual formats
- How to use 'elements' to create an image quickly
- Tons of ideas for your next workshop, presentation or training session
What People are Saying
'The OB Loch Eil Centre team were delighted to work with Emer O'Leary during our staff training week. Our mission was to explore how we could use simple graphics to enhance our practice with young people. The progress was fantastic and I will be excited to see the impact of this work.
The course with Emer gave us space to practice, experiment and play with a variety of approaches and styles.
A great day of considering and thinking about how we frame the OB experience and add quality into reviewing the learning. 🙏👏'
David Exeter, Head of Centre | Outward Bound, Loch Eil
'The course was fantastic – really inspiring and instilled confidence that you can use graphics in your own workplace – no matter what your intended audience.’
Alison Marron, Solicitor | Scottish Legal Complaints Commission
‘Emer, I just wished to email you and thank you for the excellent facilitation of this course - I am receiving some amazing feedback from my team after their attendance. My team (SCL) are really valuing what they learn and I know you are aware we are championing how they put what they learn into practice :-) Jayne’
Jayne Cashmore,
Simplify Customer Life | Design | CAO,Personal & Business Banking | Services | Royal Bank of Scotland
'Emer is wonderful human being, who also happens to be a talented facilitator, coach and graphic illustrator.
I attended her online Secrets of Simple Graphics course to improve the quality of the training materials that I provide in my work. In short, I really loved it.
It was delivered in short, bite-size sessions, which meant that I never felt overwhelmed and could, bit by bit, absorb what we were learning. There’s also plenty of room for you to make the sessions and the exercises relevant to your world, work and interests. The weekly homework I found them to be wonderful mindful activities that improved my mental health too, which I have really valued.
Sarah Lowes | Excalibur Development
‘I first heard about Emer’s course through a colleague and I was initially quite sceptical about the concept. Once I attended the training myself, I soon realised I’ve probably always been a visual thinker without actually realising it.
‘Since attending a two day Visual Thinking for Business course with Emer, I’ve experienced first hand how this skillset can be applied to a variety of challenges I face through my role. Visual thinking has really helped me better develop initial ideas, improve clarity and support my decision making. I’ve also found that visual aids help massively with the communication of a certain message, this really increases comprehension and the amount of information people retain during a meeting or a presentation!’
Russell Glencross | Information Systems: Talent and Development Lead
High quality, well delivered, enaging training course. High quality resources and materials. Enjoyable fun sessions. Everyone on the course made measurable progress. I cannot recommend Secrets of Simple Graphics online highly enough. I have benefited in long lasting ways! Thank you!
Anne-Marie Tuck
Director | Cloverhill Solutions Ltd.
This isn't about art!
Absolutely anyone can build up the skills required to create graphics. It’s amazing how quickly confidence and ability increases once the foundations of good graphics are learned and practiced.
The training is inclusive, interactive and fun.
A safe and relaxed environment is created to support your learning and give you the opportunity to practice your new skills as you learn them.
No experience is required.
If you haven’t drawn a stick man since you were in primary school that’s probably an advantage.
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