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For various reasons, many organisations only begin planning for the new year ahead a month or two after it has begun! That’s a couple of months where people may not have the clarity or direction they need to lay the foundations for a successful year ahead.
Creating a clear vision for 2022 ahead of time allows people to prepare themselves, their teams and their organisations ready for the start of the New Year. Investing time and resource into creating your vision now will pay dividends (metaphorical and literal!) in the coming year.
To discuss how best to visualise your vision for 2022, please do give us a call on +44 (0)115 6483381 or contact us.
John
John Ashton – Founder of Crackerjack Visual Thinking
Giving your people clarity about what they need to do at any time of year is important in the retail sector, but even more so when faced with the pressures and demands of the all important Christmas period.
Whilst you will probably have your sourcing plans in place, ensuring that your manufacturing, supply chain, order fulfilment, support services and customer facing operations are aligned, joined-up and working effectively will remain a key challenge over the next few months.
This is not only a matter of helping people understand their specific role in your organisation, but also helping them understand how their actions directly and indirectly impact on other people and processes involved upstream and downstream from them in your seasonal operations.
Illustrating the vision for your organisations Christmas operations via a rich picture can be one of the most effective ways of aligning your people to your plans in the run up to this key trading period. This approach creates a shared understanding of what needs to be done, as well as helping people see how they can best support their colleagues across the organisation in achieving your seasonal trading goals.
To talk more about creating a clear vision for sales success this Christmas, please call +44 (0)115 6483381 or contact us.
John
John Ashton – Founder of Crackerjack Visual Thinking
Helping people easily and clearly see the value and benefit of an organisation and its work (via rich pictures, graphic recording or whiteboard animation) serves a number of purposes:
Our clients use our images and animations as both standalone resources and often as part of a wider internal or external communication initiative.
Another experience our clients have in common is that the more they use our illustrations and animations across their organisations, the better the shared understanding of their organisation becomes. This enables more effective conversations and meetings and, in turn, increases action and productivity – all of which are vital to achieving the organisations aims and objectives.
You can read more about our clients experiences of working with Crackerjack Visual Thinking on our home page.
John Ashton – Founder of Crackerjack Visual Thinking
The health check uses the SIMPLE mnemonic to focus on 6 key areas of running a business:
Simply work your way around the template and see if you can tick all the boxes against each of the statements shown.
If you can tick all the boxes then great! Although don’t be complacent and regularly use the health check to ensure this continues to be the case.
If you can’t tick all the boxes, take time to examine the reasons for this and plan the actions you need to take to enable you to tick the box.
Click on the button below to download the SIMPLE business health check:
If you’d like to talk more about the health check, please do get in contact.
Regards,
John
John Ashton | Crackerjack Visual Thinking
“Good Morning John,
I hope you are well, apologies for the delay in sending this over, having now distributed the image you created for us to represent our NMAHP journey to excellence using our new 2021 – 2026 strategy I am delighted to say the feedback I have received from colleagues has been very positive indeed.
As per the original brief to create a pictorial reference / image for the strategy you have truly delivered!
Colleagues have commented that this piece of work has helped them to simply explain and discuss our combined aims and objectives to continue to support our People our Patients and our Populations.
On a personal note I have enjoyed working with you on this process as you know it has been a key objective to deliver this for Sam our Chief Nurse and the Trust and I believe we have succeeded!.
Thanks again John / Crackerjack I am sure we will work together again soon.
Kind regards,
Mark”
Mark Britton | Business Manager | CNO
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The key question for me is how many of those businesses have taken the time to review their business vision (which maps out the fundamental way in which they operate and details what they are striving to achieve)?
It’s easy to understand why, in the scramble to get income flowing again, many businesses will not take even an hour to review their vision. But they could well be missing out on identifying fundamental issues that could eventually lead to their businesses being uncompetitive in the new post-pandemic world.
Realising that you are targeting the wrong customers, using the wrong channels to deliver products or services and using physical office/shop space in an inefficient way are examples of how taking the time to review your business vision can help guard against running your business in the same way as normal – when the ‘old normal’ potentially no longer exists!
So please, take time to review your vision and make sure it is fit for the future (and not the future as you saw it 18 months ago).
All the best,
John
Crackerjack Visual Thinking
If you would like to discuss your organisations vision including how to develop and communicate it impactfully, please contact me and visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com
A person’s life is a rich tapestry of events, influences, emotions and experiences that create a unique story. No one person’s story is the same as another.
Capturing this story visually creates a unique artistic record of person’s life journey and can be an ideal gift to:
Over at our new sister site Your Life Story Pictures™, you can find out more about how I create rich detailed pictures of people’s life stories using techniques I’ve developed over the last 12 years working here at www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com
Feel free to contact me to find out more about this exciting new service from Your Life Story Pictures™.
All the best,
John
John Ashton – Founder of Crackerjack Visual Thinking and Your Life Story Pictures™
In this blog episode, I talk about the importance of alining your systems, processes and organisational behaviours with your Vision to deliver a great customer experience and build trust in your organisation.
To discuss achieving your organisations vision in more detail, please do get in touch using the options below.
