Crackerjack Visual Thinking

Category: Business Coaching

  • Creating your Personal Vision – a new service from Crackerjack Visual Thinking to help you map out your professional and life goals and help keep you on track

    Creating your Personal Vision – a new service from Crackerjack Visual Thinking to help you map out your professional and life goals and help keep you on track

    Having a clear idea of where you’re heading in life (both professionally and personally) enables you to make the right decisions and choices along your journey towards your goals and ambitions. Having a map ensures you keep on track!

    I’m very pleased to share with you that Crackerjack Visual Thinking is now offering its new ‘Create your Personal Vision’ service to those people looking to map out their own (or their teams) goals and ambitions and understand the steps they need to take to achieve them. Find out more about the new service below and feel free to contact me to learn more about the benefits of creating your Personal Vision.

    John Ashton – Crackerjack Visual Thinking

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    We work with you to create your professional or life vision (or combination of the two) as a rich picture. This illustrates your professional or life goals and the journey you need to take to achieve them.

    IMAGE ABOVE: OVERVIEW OF THE TYPES OF SUBJECTS WE’LL EXPLORE DURING THE CREATION OF YOUR PERSONAL VISION RICH PICTURE.

    Building on our tried and tested approach to creating organisational vision rich pictures (examples shown below), your bespoke personal vison rich picture can be used as a map to help guide you in making the right decisions and choices along your journey and also as a reminder of what you are aiming to achieve.

    This can be particuarly helpful during times of change or challenge, when a clear focus on the future and a big picture view is most needed.

    Combining elements of coaching with our visual thinking approach enables us to support you as you plan for your future.

    Whether it’s a 1 year vision or a 20 year vision, your personal vision rich picture will be a reference point that travels with you on your journey.

    We are happy to work with you to update your personal vision rich picture on a regular or ad-hoc basis to ensure your personal vision continues to guide you towards your goals.

    WHAT’S INCLUDED:

    • Initial session to agree the scope, focus and duration of the visioning process.
    • Virtual/face to face sessions to explore your professional or life vision.
    • Creation of your personalised vision rich picture.

    RESULT: You can see your personal goals and ambitions and have a clear route to achieveing them.

    We’d love to talk about your ideas and see if we can help you visualise them!

    Click on the button below and let’s start a conversation…

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  • THE THREE KEY ACTIVITIES REQUIRED TO SUCCESSFULLY ACHIEVE YOUR VISION ACROSS YOUR ORGANISATION

    THE THREE KEY ACTIVITIES REQUIRED TO SUCCESSFULLY ACHIEVE YOUR VISION ACROSS YOUR ORGANISATION

    Having a Vision and successfully achieving it requires three key activities: Communicating, Enabling and Embedding. In these short videos, I share my thoughts on the importance of having a joined-up approach to these key activities and the 3 Steps to successfully achieving your Vision.

    A joined-up approach is vital to achieving your Vision!

    In this introductory blog episode, I share my thoughts on the importance of having a joined-up approach to these key activities – and what can happen if you don’t!

    Step #1: Develop your Vision

    In this blog episode, I talk about how visualising your organisations Vision can improve communication, understanding and business performance. This is the all important first step to embedding your Vision!

    #2: Develop your People!

    In this blog episode, I talk about how aligning the skills, knowledge and behaviours of your people to your Vision is vital in enabling your Vision to be achieved.

    Step #3: Develop your Organisation

    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.

    COMING SOON – We will shortly be launching our new Achieving Your Vision members area on our website which will provide you with support, resources and guidance to help you successfully implement your Vision across your organisation. Click on the subscribe button below to keep up to date!

    If you would like to discuss how to successfully implement your Vision across your organisation, please call +44 (0)115 6483381 or contact us to discuss your requirements in more detail.

    John Ashton – Crackerjack Visual Thinking

  • AndPartnership ‘Leading in a Changing World’ Event #graphicrecording

    It was great to work with my friends at the AndPartnership last week at their annual free seminar. This years event explored the topic of ‘Leading in a Changing World’ and featured a number of guest speakers (including Andy Cope author of ‘The Art of Briliance‘). Here are the graphic recordings I produced live during the event:

    AndPartnership 16th Sept 2014 Morning Session

    AndPartnership 16th Sept 2014 Afternoon Session

  • For the latest news and ideas on #visualthinking read the new ‘Crackerjack Visual Thinking Daily’

    For ideas and inspiration about all things Visual Thinking, subscribe to the new free Crackerjack Visual Thinking Daily.

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    To receive a daily alert when the Crackerjack Visual Thinking Daily is published, and for other updates from Crackerjack, follow us on Twitter at @JohnAshtonCPD.

  • A pen and paper – one of the most powerful business and thinking tools available… #visualthinking

    Crackerjack Visual Thinking believes that the combination of a pen and a piece of paper is one of the most powerful business and thinking tools available.

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    The visual thinking approach is fundamentally based on using these simple tools (or their iPad style equivalents!) to create visual images that communicate ideas, facilitate discussion, engage thinking and provide a catalyst for co-creation between people.

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    The visual thinking approach enables organisations to experience increased creativity and innovation – ultimately leading to growth and success.

    To find out more about visual thinking please visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com or call John Ashton on +44 (0) 775 282 6227.

  • Crackerjack now has visual thinking AND business startup websites!

    Crackerjack now has two websites!

    http://www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com provides you information about all of our visual thinking services including graphic recording and info graphics.

    http://www.crackerjackbizstartup.com aims to help you organise, visualise and develop your thinking about your new (or existing!) business by providing easy to use and engaging business development tools aimed primarily at entrepreneurs and new business owners.

    Why not give both sites a visit and find out what Crackerjack can offer?!?!?!

    #visualthinking #graphicrecording #startup #newbusiness #bizitalk

  • A clear vision is the compass to success

    When starting a new business, having a clear vision of what success looks like on both a business and personal level is vital. This knowledge is the compass that will guide you towards that success. #businesssuccess #visualthinking

  • FREE ‘Take 5 minutes to think about your achievements since you set up your business’ visual coaching template

    Why not use our free visual business coaching template below to think about what you’ve achieved since setting up your business.

    Click on the image to open the template and then print it out.

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    Important note: Draw, sketch, doodle and scribble your answers to the questions on the template wherever possible as this will help you think more creatively and imaginatively about the answers you provide.

    It would be great to hear about any learning’s, thoughts and realisations you have as a result of using the template! And if you found the template helpful, click here to have a look at our ‘Recharge Pack’ visual business coaching package for existing businesses – helping you to extend the lifespan of your business!

  • The average lifespan of a company is decreasing

    The average lifespan of a company is decreasing.

    New lifestyles and technologies mean that companies need to constantly innovate and change. Reviewing your business and learning from its successes (and failures!) is therefore vital.

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    The ‘Recharge Pack‘ has been designed provide you with an opportunity to do this using the power of coaching and the clarity of visual thinking.

    The Recharge Pack consists of:

    FREE 30 minute kick-off phone conversation.

    4 x 2 hour visual coaching sessions using large graphic templates (known as ‘Big Pictures’) to explore the following questions:

    – Big Picture #1: Have you achieved the vision of success (on both a business and personal level) you had when you started your business?

    – Big Picture #2: Is your current business model robust, sustainable and scalable?*

    – Big Picture #3: What makes your business so different? Clue: it’s your customer experience…

    – Big Picture #4: How you will grow your business and ensure it’s fit for the future.

    * The Big Picture #2 session uses the Business Model Canvas developed by Alex Osterwalder (worldwide best-selling author of the Business Model Generation handbook).

    The visual coaching sessions can be held wherever is most convenient for you.

    During each coaching session, Crackerjack will work with you to co-create each of the Big Pictures. You can expect your thinking to be challenged and new ideas to be generated during these sessions.

    At the end of each of the above sessions, you will take-away the completed ‘Big Picture’ to use as both a reference and an action plan for developing your existing business.

    Click on the example template below to view an example of one of our smaller graphic templates:

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    3 x FREE visual coaching templates to further challenge and develop your thinking about your existing business.

    3 x 30 minute follow-up phone coaching sessions to help you maximise the benefit of your learning’s from the Recharge Pack experience.

    To find out more and extend the lifespan of your business, please contact us.