Visual Resumes and Visual Portfolios

When I teach Visual Literacy for Management, or similar courses, I often give students the task to create their visual resume. Why? Managers are often too busy to read all the details of a resume, and anyway most CVs look very much alike. A visual resume is a great tool to stand out of the crowd and to really enphasize what makes you unique.

I just got the first book on the topic “The infographic Resume” by Hannah Morgan. It’s a much needed book and nicely structured. There are some good examples too.

As a result of the assignments, some of my students have come up with really beautiful examples of visual resumes! Have a look:

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The art of motivation in China – a visual guide

The students of my course “Global Management Communication”, held in Beijing (China) came up with really interesting visualization on the topic of motivation in an organizational context. Here are some of their insightful drawings:

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I didn’t report the names for privacy issues – the drawing were all made by the Central University of Finance and Economics’ students of the 2014 edition of the Summer Program.

What I found particularly intresting in these drawings – in addition to the great sketching skills! – is the emphasis on the “type” of person who should be motivated (age/gender/status)… an aspect that most of our Western theories neglect!

 

Best Paper award – Frontiers of Business Research in China International Symposium

We are very honored to receive the Best Paper award from the Frontiers of Business Research in China International Symposium 2014!

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Bresciani, S., Ge, J. & Niu, Y. (2014) Improving Attitude toward Corporate Strategy with Visual Mapping: Scale Development and Application in Europe and China, Frontiers of Business Research in China International Symposium On Business Administration in the Changing Environment, June 23-24, 2014- Beijing, China.

Global Management Communication course at CUFE, Beijing

We are ready to start the Global Management Communication course at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing!

Here is the presentation of the course: prezi

and the syllabus: syllabus Global Management Communication 2014

Kolours Summer Party

The Summer Party of our non-profit social enterprise Kolours took place last Saturday July 5th.kolours-summer-party2014

If you missed the pool party and eth[n]ic market, you can find Kolours products and future events on our website www.kolours.org

Lecturing at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Sabrina Bresciani at IIM Bangalore

A big thank you to Prof. Shainesh and to all the students of the EPGP of IIMB for the wonderful participation during my lecture!

 

Visual Communication for Managers lecture at IIMB

On Wednesday June 4th I will be giving a lecture at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) at the Executive Post Graduate Program in Management on the topic of “Visual Communication for Managers”.

The presentation can be viewed at this link:

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Doctorate honoris causa to Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia

The Università della Svizzera italiana has awarded the 2014 PhD honoris causa in communication to Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and of Wikimedia.

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Wikipedia has become the largest encyclopedia int he world, and possible the first result you get on a search engine when looking for something! For this reason the faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Lugano has decided to award Jimmy Wales a doctorate honoric causa.

In his speech, Jimmy Wales commented on the future expansions of Wikipedia, explaning the importance of having content in the local  langage of people from developing countries, who can now access the Internet thanks to affordable mobiles.

 

 

Presentation at the International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design

Our study on “THE EFFECT OF KNOWLEDGE VISUALIZATION ON ATTITUDE: SCALE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION IN EUROPE AND CHINA”,has been accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design.

I conducted this study with Prof. Jianxin Ge and Yaru Niu (Sharon) of the Central University of Finance and Economics of Beijing, China.

This is the presentation of the study which I will give next Friday April 25th at 9am in Hall 2attitute-toward-the-strategy-scale-and-experiment

Abstract:

Visual representations of information can offer several benefits compared to textual communication: this study examines the effect of knowledge visualization, compared to a textual control condition, on attitude toward the content, specifically a company strategy. A scale of attitude for this specific context has been developed and tested in Europe and China. The study outcome provides a parsimonious and effective tripartite scale of attitude with cognitive, affective and behavioral components. The scale is then applied to a different sample to test the effect of visual mapping on attitude toward the content, and to test for the moderating effect of culture (Europe and China). The results of the experiment show that subjects exposed to the visual conditions had a significant more positive affective and cognitive attitude toward the content.

Doing Business in India by prof. Shainesh

 

Prof. Shainesh of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore just gave a great course on Doing Business in India at the Unviersity of St. Gallen.

Congratulations to prof. Shiamesh for winning the second prize in the GlobaLens’ 2014 Next Billion Case Competition with his case “Narayana Nethralaya: Expanding Affordable Eye Care” which is about an Indian social entrepreneur applying an innovative business model based on the latest mobile technologies for providing healthcare (also) to the poorest.