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The recent World Economic Forums Future of Work Report listed creativity as the third most important skill needed to thrive in the future economy and workforce of 2020. Not the 30th, but the third! Creativity is like a muscle. It needs to be worked out to grow and stay strong. In my experience, most people take no time to do something that builds their creativity and their ability to think differently. The problem with this is that when people get to work, they have little or no creative spark. Despite creativity being the third most important skill needed to thrive in 2020, the ideas, thinking and behavior that is produced is same, not different. BAU is not the skillset needed to thrive in 2020!

SimonBanks provides graphic recording and facilitation in Australia wide. Simon has developed a unique approach that focuses on 3 fundamental principles. These are principles that allow ANYONE who walks away from our visual communication workshops to express their thoughts visually.

One of my favourite activities when I was an art teacher involved free styling design thinking with cardboard boxes. Let me explain. Firstly, the kids I was teaching weren't cut from the same cloth as everyone else. They were all primary school students who had been expelled from their normal school.

Due to a practical joke gone that missed it's target and impacted a group of visiting missionaries, I was also expelled from the Christian University I had been attending. To fill this time off University, I did two great things that changed my life. I took off solo overseas for 7 months and to pay for it, I was a house parent with kids with severe emotional and behavioural disorders in the 6 months preceding it.

Graphic Facilitation and Visual Communication are a perfect mix for a fantastic strategy session. Want to explore further?

I am hearing the words fail fast everywhere at the moment. It has become a new buzz word. It may end up in the same space as such classics as: Thinking outside the box Peeling back the onion Lets run this up the flag pole Synergistic (just what does that mean exactly?)

Corporate MC, Creative Facilitator and Keynote Speaker, Simon Banks brings his signature high energy & creative flair to businesses seeking something a little left-field.

"Just wanted to say a huge thank you for work at the conference last week, the day was excellent and the feedback we are receiving about you and the overall day is the best ever!

"Just wanted to say a huge thank you for work at the conference last week, the day was excellent and the feedback we are receiving about you and the overall day is the best ever!

I recently had a really great creative success story that I wanted to share. The creative and problem solving approach is really, really simple and could be useful the next time you find yourself stuck. The Background To This Story: VisualFunk was recently invited to pitch for a 200 pax.

I have been working face to face with all huge variety of people in a facilitation/education role for the last 22 years, give or take a few months (Sigh, sigh, sigh... I feel really old when I say that). This has been in a variety of roles and workplace environments.

I was recently involved in a 1.5 day presentation skills workshop (Simon Banks style). It was part of a 4-day offsite for 30 senior leaders from a communications company and this was in the middle of their 4 days.

The word Disruption is hotter than hot when Innovation is mentioned in the corporate world. It's either massive excitement about disrupting the market and kicking some ass or a lot of fear about being disrupted from some cheeky young upstart. I love the concept of disruption. It's exciting.

Simon Banks is an emcee, speaker, training facilitator and presenter who is professional and creative, and brings all the vim and vigour your audience expect to ensure brilliant corporate events. He's the Director of creative training company VisualFunk, known for running innovation hubs, conferences and training days to brew fresh thinking and develop market leading ideas. His first book,1000 Little Lightbulbs, will be released in early 2017.

5 Extremely useful tips on how to become more innovative at work.

Graphic facilitation is the great visual art work for the understanding of communication of a group or person. Visual Art has the great power of graphics.

Art Team Building: Art is for all of us, not only for the artists. Art programs connect with teams regardless of experience, background & age.

If you find yourself not smiling as much as you would like to, here are some simple things Simon Banks have found to turn that frown upside down. Simon Banks is an author, emcee, speaker, and training facilitator in Australia.

Every company is looking for that light bulb moment. That elusive spark of genius. But instead of waiting for lightning to strike on that one big idea, you were part of an organisation there were 1000 little lightbulbs going off all the time? why not tap into an existing network of innovators?

Creativity Workshops in Australia by Simon Banks. Creativity is one of the most important elements of any business. A crucial ingredient for any modern organisation looking to growth-hack their way to new heights.

Simon Banks the Keynote Speaker in Australia presenting an unique presentation style on stage and see how he engages a room of people through his great energy, infectious humour and unrelenting passion.

Once you can draw people that an audience can look at and understand, you have their attention. It adds a human context to your communication, strategy or vision. Despite best efforts, I have never seen a strategy, vision or idea come to life without people. As such, it's great to be able to learn how to draw them and it absolutely powers your visual communication.

Using simple shapes to group that information can make it simple to comprehend and connect with. That's the role of graphic facilitation and visual communication: to make complex ideas simple and easy to understand and using shapes are essential to that process.