When communicating ideas and concepts, a quick sketch or visual is usually much more clear than a bunch of words. A lot of us, however, never developed the skill to get a picture in our heads onto paper.
Enter Dave Gray who has a web site with instructive videos, devoted to this. It looks like a lot of fun.
This post, Some Basic Rules for Napkin Sketching could be titled “How to sketch a kaizen idea.”
This is a great video. It is a practical way to try sketching for the first time.
I found some other cool instructional stuff from Mr. Gray at squidoo:
http://www.squidoo.com/communicationnation
I think this kind of presenation fits right into A3 and all Lean transformations.
By the way – I have been reading your blog for about 6 months and really enjoy all of your hard work!