The “Magic Pen Approach”
Experience Report by Dieter Lambertz - 30th October 2008
Due to the fact that I had to set up a new team for a specific project I had to perform a lot of interviews and meetings with potential team members. During the course of the interviews and meetings, I started to draw little pictures to explain to people what the tasks were, their complexity and their criticality and their relationship with one another.
For those drawings I used the Teetch 4-colour pen. I assigned to each colour a specific meaning which is related to the TEETCH Four Thinking Styles.
For example :
- Something in RED means either criticality, intuition, fast reaction, etc
- Something in GREEN means either to be analyzed in detail, long term effects, strategy impact
- Something in BLUE means : social aspect, communication, people involvement
- Something in BLACK (instead of yellow because it’s not on the pen) means :statistics, accurate results, basic research and detailed information
My experience has been that people can easily follow my explanations a most of them ask for the picture at the end of the discussion because they find that this was a very good description of what the task is. I made this approach a constant method for my daily business and called it “The Magic Pen” approach because it is still fascinating to me to describe complex themes just with a pen, four colours and a piece of paper and to see that people which have not been affected by the topic so far, can easily follow.
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