The most valuable insight from a visioning workshop often appears after the workshop.
During the session, ideas connect, assumptions get challenged, and the emerging model becomes clearer. But something interesting happens when the thinking from the workshop is turned into a strategic visual artefact — often a rich picture.
Visualise the WHY to create trust and loyalty in your organisation
Building on Simon Sinek’s well-known Golden Circle Theory, visualising your ‘WHY’ helps create trust and loyalty in your organisation – both internally with your team and externally with your customers.
The brain’s preference for visual information makes visual thinking tools (including rich pictures, whiteboard animations and live scribing) ideal for visualising the ‘WHY’ of your organisation.
Find out more about visual thinking tools and approaches here.
Over the last couple of years, Crackerjack Visual Thinking has been working with clients to support their sales processes by creating bespoke rich pictures showing how their products and services align with their existing and potential customers needs.
Rich pictures help customers ‘see’ how our clients products and services fit into their customers world (with its complexity, challenges and opportunities) and will help them achieve their aims and objectives. This results in:
Customers understanding how my clients products and services will benefit their business.
More effective conversations between my clients and their customers due to having a rich picture image to talk through and explore together.
Customers appreciating the investment and time my clients have taken in preparing the bespoke rich picture for the sales meeting. It demonstrates my clients commitment to wanting to understand their customers needs on a deeper level.
Following successful sales outcomes with their customers, the multiple benefits of rich pictures during the sales process have led clients to adapt this visual thinking approach into their sales processes. We look forward to continuing to support them in achieving successful sales over the coming years.
John Ashton – Crackerjack Visual Thinking
We’d love to talk about your ideas and see if we can help you visualise them!
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Based on my previous experience in L&D (working for Boots the Chemists and The Nottingham Building Society), one of the crucial elements of engaging people during onboarding is providing them with a sense of purpose and place in the organisation.
We can help people have a sense of purpose and place by:
Helping them have direct line of sight from their role to the customer.
Understanding how their role ‘fits’ into the organisation.
Understanding the impact of the organisation on the wider world (including environmental impact).
Getting a sense of the culture/values/ethos of the organisation they have joined.
It’s a lot to cover!
Throughout my career (both as an employee being onboarded myself and as an L&D manager doing the same for others), the most effective tool for growing understanding, driving discussion and generating insightful questions about an organisation has been (in my opinion) the effective use of rich pictures as part of the onboarding process. So much so in fact that I now spend most of my time creating these for organisations!
Nursing and Midwifery at NUH Rich Picture
Rich pictures are images that share complex organisational stories and messages in easy to understand and impactful ways. They can be static images or evolving images that build to create a complete story over the course of the onboarding process.
Used standalone or as part of planned onboarding and induction programme, rich pictures can be shared on-line or in print formats including posters, murals, large format displays and interactive business games.
Rich pictures can be shared before an employee joins an organisation as a pre-orientation tool or during the onboarding process itself once they have joined the organisation.
RICH PICTURES ARE ALSO IDEAL FOR VISUALISING, COMMUNICATING AND ENGAGING PEOPLE WITH THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS:
Organisational / Business Vision
Organisational / Business Strategy
Culture and Values
Transformation and Change
Health & Safety and Regulatory Compliance
I’m very happy to have a further conversation about the use of rich pictures in the onboarding process if that would be helpful. Feel free tocontact me or visitwww.crackerjackvisualthinking.com to find out more about our work.
Changing career successfully requires planning and forethought. Having a clear vision of what you want to achieve and how you can get there is vital.
Your Personal Vision acts as a map and career compass…
Visualising your vision as an image provides you with a quick reference map as you progress along your journey towards your new career. It helps you see the skills you need to develop, the relationships you need to build, the decisions you need to make and the behaviours you need to grow. It acts as the career compass to keep you on course.
The process of creating your vision is as important as the vision image itself!
The very act of creating your personal vision can also be as educational as the end vision image itself. Going through the process can reveal new ideas, things you hadn’t thought about, new pathways to your career – or even completely new career opportunities you hadn’t considered before!
Now’s the time to create your career change Personal Vision
So, if you haven’t already, now’s the time to create your own personal vision ready to guide you you on your career change journey. Feel free to use the template in the image above and create your own vision. If you would like some additional help with the process of creating your personal vision, do get in touch using the contact us button below and find out more about our Personal Vision service here.
John Ashton – Crackerjack Visual Thinking
We’d love to talk about your ideas and see if we can help you visualise them!
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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
AMBITIONS REALISED…
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!
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Visual thinking is a term that you may have heard of, but it isn’t always clear what practical business benefit can be derived from using visual thinking approaches in your work.
To help with this confusion, I’ve put together this quick guide to the Visual Thinking Toolkit that describes how each tool can help you in your business and what the high level result of this approach will be. I hope you find it useful.
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.
