Crackerjack Visual Thinking

Category: Communication

  • House of Fraser L&D team develop their scribbling skills! #visualthinking

    House of Fraser L&D team develop their scribbling skills! #visualthinking

    I spent half a day yesterday running a bespoke version of Scribble Lab 1™ with 12 members of the House of Fraser learning and development (L&D) team.

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    The team is keen to incorporate visual thinking approaches into their work and the workshop helped them begin to develop the core drawing skills needed to do this.

    Developing these core drawing skills will enable them to feel confident in creating images to communicate information and drive conversation during the design and delivery phases of their work across multiple learning channels.

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    At the end of the session, the session participants were all able to identify immediate ways in which they could incorporate the skills learnt during the Scribble Lab™ into their current and future work.

    To find out more about Scribble Labs™ and how they could benefit your organisation and teams, please contact us.

  • Sneaky Peak! #visualthinking

    Sneaky Peak! #visualthinking

    Just thought I’d share a few small elements of a much larger rich picture I’m creating for a client to help them communicate their new vision and engage their target audience in their work.

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    The staring point for the rich picture was a powerpoint presentation containing outline bullet points for each element of the new vision. I then worked with the client to really understand and explore the vision and identify the real-life impact this would have on their target audience.

    From this exploration I’ve been able to create a rich picture that visually shows how their vision will enable their target audience to make a real impact to the lives of the general public.

    I’m hoping to be able to share the whole graphic with you in June once it’s been launched at the organisations annual conference (where I’m also creating a live graphic recording of the key themes, thoughts and ideas emerging from the event).

    To find out more about our work, please visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com or contact us.

  • House of Fraser chooses Crackerjack Visual Thinking’s Scribble Lab™ 1 to help develop its #visualthinking skills!

    Crackerjack Visual Thinking is very pleased to have been asked to deliver a bespoke version of our Scribble Lab™ 1 visual thinking training workshop to House of Fraser’s learning and development team later this month.

    Scribble Lab™ 1 enables participants to draw great graphics and use simple visual tools in the meetings and events they lead (ideal for learning and development teams).

    To find out more about Scribble Labs™ click here or visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com

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  • Quick Poll: Have you shared an idea with colleagues by drawing it? #visualthinking

    It would be great if you had 30 seconds to complete the following poll to help us understand more about how people use drawing to share ideas in the workplace!

    Thanks for you help!

    John

    Crackerjack Visual Thinking
    www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com

  • Now that’s a novel use for black insulation tape and a whiteboard! #visualthinking

    Just spotted this advert for a new TVR sports car which uses just black electrical insulation tape and a whiteboard to visualise a teaser image of the new car.

    Just shows that you don’t have to stick to pens and paper to communicate your ideas visually!

    For more ideas on how to visualise your ideas and drive communication in your organisation visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com or contact us.

  • NEW Scribble Lab™ Visual Thinking Skills Workshops

    Crackerjack’s Scribble Labs™ are designed to help you explore and develop the skills you need to use the power of Visual Thinking in your work.

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    We currently offer three different Scribble Labs™ and all are facilitated by John Ashton (owner of Crackerjack Visual Thinking). Available as both open and in-house workshops, we ensure that:

    • All of our workshops are run using best practise visual thinking and graphic facilitation principles.
    • No more than 8 people attend each workshop, so you can be sure you will receive plenty of direct coaching and support from John during your chosen Scribble Lab™.

    To find about each of our Scribble Labs™ and decide which one is right for your needs, please read the overview of each workshop below and then click on the heading for more information:

    Scribble Lab™ 1: Get Scribbling!

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    Enabling you to draw great graphics and simple visual tools that you can use in the meetings and events you lead.

    Scribble Lab™ 2: Listen, Think, Scribble!

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    Introducing you to the art of creating real-time visual records of meetings and events (often referred to as Live Scribing or Graphic Recording) as they happen.

    Scribble Lab™ 3: Including Scribbling In Your Event Design!

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    Helping you unleash the power of Visual Thinking in your meeting, workshop and event designs!

     

    If you have any questions about our Scribble Labs™ then please do contact us or visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com

  • Friday Road-Roller! #visualthinking

    For no other reason than it’s Friday afternoon, here’s a picture of a road-roller I drew earlier this week as part of a rich picture for a client! Have a good weekend! 🙂

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  • Visual thinking: a key element of the people engagement and change process

    It’s been a busy few months for Crackerjack Visual Thinking since the start of 2016!

    Crackerjack’s work has included:

    • Designing and developing hand-drawn animations
    • Designing rich pictures for clients including Westmill Foods
    • Live scribing (graphic recording) for the NHS and Google UK
    • Creating an interactive PDF improvement guide for one of Crackerjack’s key clients

    The common theme amongst all this work has been that clients are wanting to really engage people (whether it’s their own team members, their own client’s or their customer’s) and see visualising all or some elements of what they are trying to communicate as key to this engagement.

    I see visual thinking as way to enhance people engagement and change initiatives by shortcutting the time it takes people to take in and process important and sometimes complex information. Looking at the ‘Resistance to Change Model’ below, it can been seen that ‘understanding the change’ is a vital part of people being able to move towards ‘new beginnings’:

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    So, if you are wanting to engage people or introduce a change in your organisation, think about how you can visualise the important information you need your people to understand. And don’t forget, you can also encourage your people to visualise how they feel and what they do and don’t understand about the change.

    Things you could do include:

    • Creating a one page image of what the future will look like…
    • Create an ideas and thoughts wall where people can draw or write their feedback, thinking and ideas about the change…
    • Create a board game that helps people understand the journey they will be going on…
    • Capture the conversations as they happen in meetings about the change as visual notes and encourage people to photograph them with their smartphones as an immediate easy to understand record of the event…

    For more ideas and support with using visual thinking approaches in your organisation, feel free to contact us, call us on 0775 282 6227 or visit our website at www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com.

    John Ashton
    Crackerjack Visual Thinking

  • Great client #feedback from #Google UK

    Really pleased to be able to share feedback received following an event I recently scribed/graphic recorded for Google UK:

    “John [of Crackerjack Visual Thinking] did a fantastic job of capturing our day-long event’s key points and learnings – the final graphic has been shared far and wide within our organisation, with employees praising this creative takeaway, which clearly showcases the outcome of the day.”

    Steph Fastré – Learning and Development Google UK

    To find out how we can help you create a visual memory of your meeting or event visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com