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Techniques for Using Diagrams to Effectuate Better Communication

Step 1: Thinking using diagrams
- First of all, clear your head: The five basic forms for putting your ideas in order
- Rearrange your knowledge and basic assumptions: The power of blank space gives shape to ideas
- Sort out your problems quickly: Ideas can be clarified with the help of mind maps
- Discover your hypotheses: Strategies can be formed by foreseeing the incoming trends
- [Contributed article] Mastering the art of using diagrams effectively: Simple training developed by an expert using diagrams can help clear your head: Divide a diagram, arrange the divided pieces, and number them

Step 2: Communicating using diagrams
Enhance your persuasion skills: Narrowing down information for selection, connection, and arrangement
- Reinforce impressions: Increasing their impact by creating effective graphs
- Keep your readers from getting tired: There are techniques for constructing diagrams so that they have a structure that does not hinder the smooth movement of a viewer’s gaze
- Make good impressions: Color arrangement that makes diagrams more understandable
- Put yourself in the other person’s shoes: Diagrams are more suitable for explaining something to the person in charge rather than the president
- Use specific terms when showing something: Illustrating relationships among constituent elements
- Describe 3-D images: Drawing buildings and products using the simple rules of perspective

Step 3: You and your company can grow using diagrams
- Improve the materials you use to outline a proposal: In-house sharing of excellent diagrammatic materials
- Make your meetings more efficient: Deepening discussions by modifying charts