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  • Woodland Trust 10 Year Vision Rich Picture Update

    As promised a couple of weeks ago, here’s a quick update on the rich picture I’m creating to help communicate the Woodland Trusts new 10 Year Vision.

    After reviewing all the available reports, documentation and presentations relating to the new 10 year vision and meeting with a number of key stakeholders involved in the work, I created version 1 of the rich picture. I then ‘pressure tested’ this with a cross-section of people across the organisation (including the CEO and other representatives from the various parts of the Woodland Trust).

    I’m now in the process of using the feedback from the pressure testing session and other additional feedback to create the final version of the 10 year vision. Here are a few teaser images from the rich picture:

    WT logo Owl Heart March

    I’ll provide a further update in a few days when the rich picture is completed.

    #woodlandtrust #richpicture #visualthinking #communication #engagement #vision

  • Engaging people with the Woodland Trusts new 10 year strategic plan

    Crackerjack Visual Thinking is very excited to be working with the Woodland Trust to help them engage people with their new 10 year strategic plan. The strategic plan supports the Woodland Trusts vision of ‘A UK rich in native woods and trees, for people and wildlife’. Put simply, ‘Life’s better with trees‘.

    We’ll be creating a ‘rich picture’ of the 10 year strategic plan and advising the organisation on how to use this most effectively to create an engaging organisational conversation about the vision and new strategic plan.

    Visit the blog for an update on this work in a couple of weeks.

    #woodlandtrust #engage #communication #visualthinking #crackerjackvisualthinking

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    Test 2

  • How pictures can help people engage for success #engageforsuccess #visualthinking #engagement #strategicnarrative

    Helping people throughout an organisation have a shared understanding the organisations story (often referred to as its strategic narrative) is a key part of any engagement strategy. The story can detail the history of the organisation, its current state and its future vision amongst other important information. For maximum impact, the story should detail the ‘what’ (i.e. what happened and when?), the ‘how’ (i.e. how were the things achieved?) and the ‘impact’ (i.e. how did people feel?). This combination of hard facts and emotion can provide a powerful tool in helping people understand the organisation, their feelings towards it, the role they have played and the role they can play in the future.

    Now imagine that rather than just reading the story, people can see it mapped out visually on a large poster.

    Weetabix
    An operational storymap produced by Crackerjack Visual Thinking for Weetabix…

    They can gather around the poster and use it (either ‘freeform’ or as part of a structured meeting or event) to stimulate thinking and discussion and engage with the organisations story on a deeper level. Imagine if this activity was repeated across the whole organisation so that everybody understood its strategic narrative. Powerful eh?

    Visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com or contact us to find out more about how our visual thinking work can help you tell your organisations story.

  • Graphic recording at Derby and Notts CIPD Annual Meeting #letsENGAGE @DerbyNottsCIPD @davidtmacleod @macs_JamesT

    Had a interesting couple of hours last night graphic recording Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire’s CIPD annual meeting. Both David MacLeod (Engage for Success) and James Taylor (Macildowie) spoke about the need for engagement in the workplace. David stressed the importance of having a clear strategic narrative in an organisation and I was struck by the role visual thinking (both in terms of graphic recording and graphic facilitation) can play in helping to tell an organisations story.

    Here’s the graphic I produced during the meeting:

    Derby and Notts Annual Meeting 2015

  • A (very!) short animation about the benefits of using a visual thinking approach

    #graphicrecording #graphicfacilitation #visualthinking #communication

  • Latest testimonial for Crackerjack Visual Thinking

    Laura Haviland – HR Director Westmill Foods

    We asked John [of Crackerjack Visual Thinking] to come and support our company conference, both to capture the content and spirit of the day and also to interact with our colleagues and gather their responses and reactions.

    It was wonderful to see the graphic unfold as we followed the journey of the day and as the day came to a close the graphic was looking amazing.

    We will print and frame copies of the final graphic at our sites as a reminder of the key messages and our day together.

    John was a pleasure to work with, flexible about how the graphic recording fitted into our day and has produced a fabulous record of our conference.

    #visualthinking #graphicrecording

  • Graphic recording case study: Macmillan Cancer Support ‘Active Everyday’ Campaign

    MacMillan Cancer Support and their partners at Sheffield Hallam University recently asked Crackerjack Visual Thinking to create a live graphic recording of a 2 hour event which was part of their Active Everyday campaign. This campaign is encouraging patients and healthcare professionals to change their mindsets and encourage appropriate exercise as part of the recovery process following treatment for cancer. Here’s the graphic I produced live in the session:

    Active Everyday
    Active Everyday
     After the event, Liam Humphries from Sheffield Hallam University (who organised the event) said:

    “The event included a diverse blend of delegates, including clinicians, nurses, researchers, commissioners, and people affected by cancer. The programme included many different speakers all promoting the benefits of physical activity for people with cancer. I asked John to attend the event because I wanted a creative way of providing delegates with an overview of the day.

    The finished piece was extremely well received by the attendees and John was able to explain his artistic vision from what he had heard throughout the event. I now have a great piece of work that I can share with everyone from the event and for events in the future.”

    If you have a meeting, event or conference coming up then please call me on 0775 282 6227, email jashton.crackerjack@gmail.com or visit our website and join the likes of SuperDry, Weetabix and Three in using the power of visual thinking to help people ‘see’ information more clearly and have better conversations.

  • Graphic recording at the Westmill Foods Festival of Colour

    Had a good day yesterday graphic recording at the Westmill Foods Festival of Colour in Leicester! Here’s the title from the graphic:

    Westmill 18th May