60 - Lars Bartschat - Visual Thinking Luftwaffe Style

Visual Thinking  Luftwaffe Style   In this episode, we are exploring Lars Bartschat's journey from a serviceman with the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force to a visual thinker in the defense industry and his learning from his years of military service. Lars shares how the OODA loop can be applied anywhere tells us about how visual thinking is in fact an integrated practice in the military and his war stories of applying visual thinking in the collaborative context.   Lars Bartschat   Lars is a visual thinker with a very diverse background. After finishing his training as an IT specialist he joined the German Air Force as an officer candidate. He acquired his diploma in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University of the Armed Forces, Munich. During his time in the Air Force, his jobs were platoon leader, teacher, and air space manager, always working in multi-national settings. Leaving the military as Captain (retired) and having acquired his MBA at the University of Muenster, he joined the defense industry in Germany, where he took up a job as program manager and is now employing visual thinking tools in various settings: analyzing and developing business strategies, facilitating workshops or the development of concepts for new products and services. Lars is the co-author of the lernOS Sketchnoting guide, available in English and German as an open-source (CC-BY) self-organized way into visual thinking and sketchnoting. His side business is a niche consulting agency where he teaches the idea of visual thinking or acts as a visual consultant. You can contact Lars via his website at https://lars-bartschat.de (German), LinkedIn, or Email.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lars-bartschat/ [email protected]  http://lernos-sketchnoting.de/ (German guide) http://lernos-sketchnoting.org/ (English guide)     SUPPORT THE PODCAST   This show is brought to you by the Visual Thinking and Sketchnoting Boot Camp Udemyonline course developed for you by Yuri Malishenko. This unique and highly practical signature course will teach you all the necessary elements that you need to employ visual thinking for your profession. You will learn how to draw simply and use sketching techniques to take visual notes, facilitate group discussions, and communicate your ideas with clarity! By the end of the course, you will have completed a unique do-it-yourself workbook that you will carry around as a reference and inspiration for your future ideas!   With the help of the course, you will boost your thinking and communication skills as well as improve your productivity and effectiveness. By purchasing the course you get lifetime access to almost 7 hours of high-quality video instructions with numerous assignments close to real life.   You can sign up for the course here:   https://www.udemy.com/course/visual-thinking-and-sketchnoting-boot-camp/?