Designing Better Workshops: The Power of Visual Thinking in Org Design with Szilard Strenner

Most org design work disappears the moment the workshop ends.

In this episode, Szilard Strenner explains how visual facilitation turns strategy into something people can actually see, engage with, and remember.

Instead of flipping through forgotten slide decks or buried documents, visual facilitation uses large-scale, pre-designed templates and real-time visual recording to help teams think together, align faster, and retain decisions.

The key idea: 👉 Great facilitation isn’t about what happens in the room—it’s about what’s designed before it.

Szilard shares how: • Visual structures guide thinking and decision-making • Physical interaction (moving cards, filling space) drives engagement • Preparation (not improvisation) is what makes facilitation effective • Strategy can live beyond the workshop as a shared, visual “one-pager” across the business

For leaders doing org design, this is a shift from: • Slides → Shared artefacts • Talking → Co-creating • Outputs → Alignment

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