Crackerjack Visual Thinking

Category: Creativity

  • Got a difficult problem to solve?

    Have you and/or your organisation got a particularly difficult problem to solve?

    Have you had numerous meetings about this issue without moving things forward?

    If so, then it may well be time for a different approach!!!

    Using a visual thinking approach can help you ‘see’ the problem more clearly and identify more innovative and creative ways of resolving it.

    Using a combination of large scale co-created graphics and effective problem solving activities and games, Crackerjack Visual Thinking can help you to achieve the outcomes you want for your organisation.

    To find out more, please do contact us by clicking here.

  • Engaging your people using a visual ‘strategic narrative’

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    David Macleod and Nita Clarke, authors of the ‘Engaging for Success‘ report produced for the Department of Business, recommended four key enablers to employee engagement:

    • Having a strong ‘strategic narrative’
    • Having engaged managers
    • Ensuring the ‘employee voice‘ is heard
    • Leading with integrity (the ‘say do gap‘)

    Crackerjack Visual Thinking can help organisations develop their strategic narrative using a variety of visual thinking tools and techniques.

    The example above was created for Action Homeless to help describe their vision to both their internal people and to external partner organisations.

    To find out how we could help your organisation, please click here to contact us.

  • Sheffield Hallam University graphic recording

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    Thanks to Sheffield Hallam University for agreeing let me share with you a graphic recording I created for them in real time at a meeting earlier this week…

  • Great day graphic recording at Sheffield Hallam University

    Just wanted to say ‘thank you’ to Tracey and Jacquie at Sheffield Hallam University for choosing Crackerjack Visual Thinking to graphically record their meeting yesterday! It was great working with you both. 🙂

  • Graphic recording for Sheffield Hallam University

    Crackerjack is looking forward to graphically recording a meeting for a senior leadership team at Sheffield Hallam University next week.

    Another example of people wanting to use the power of visual thinking to help their meeting live on after the event itself…

  • Systems Thinking x Visual Thinking = Organisational Clarity

    In complex organisations, trying to understand how the various elements of the business fit together and co-exist can be challenging.

    By using a visual thinking approach and working with your people to visually map your business on large wall charts, you are able to see the organisation and understand more easily how your business operates and the critical linkages that enable your business to function effectively.

    Systems thinking x Visual Thinking = Organisational Clarity

  • Engage your people through visual thinking…

    Are you wanting to engage more fully with your people and help them see that their organisation wants and values their thoughts, ideas and opinions?

    Do you have an opportunity to meet with your people in the next few weeks (e.g. a meeting, conference or event)?

    If so, Crackerjack Visual Thinking would be happy to have a (no obligation) discussion with you to explore how visual thinking tools and techniques can help you truly connect and engage with your people.

    To contact Crackerjack, please click here.

    We look forward to talking with you!

  • Visualising your achievements during 2012…

    Next month sees the end of another year.

    I’m sure that you’ve achieved a great deal during 2012 and it’s important to allow yourself to recognise this.

    However, sometimes it’s not always easy to remember your own successes (and indeed learning’s) from the last year.

    My suggestion is that you try visualising what you’ve done in 2012. Here’s one way of doing it:

    • Take a blank piece of paper (the bigger the better!) and use words, pictures, lines and arrows to create a picture of your past year.
    • Some people find using an analogy (e.g. a landscape or vehicle of some description) helps them structure their thinking more effectively.
    • Don’t worry about making mistakes or what your drawings look like!
    • The important thing is to get your memory’s down onto the paper in a way that makes sense to you.
    • Trust your brain to help you do this – it works most effectively when it’s not constrained by having to work in a linear list-driven manner and is able to work visually.

    I hope this is helpful to you – do let me know how it works for you!!!

  • A thought for Monday morning – ‘Don’t make a To-Do LIST, make a To-Do DOODLE’…

    Why not start your working week by ditching the ‘To-Do List’ and unleashing your creative side by drawing a ‘To-Do Doodle‘ on a blank piece of A4 (or bigger) paper.

    You will find that using this approach can help you see things differently, generate new ideas and identify linkages between different tasks that would not have easily been spotted using the traditional linear text-based ‘to-do list’ approach.

    Just start drawing as thoughts come into your head. There’s no right or wrong way to do this. Don’t worry if it’s messy or you have to cross things out and draw them again – it’s all part of the visual and creative process!

    Please let Crackerjack know how this visual technique works for you this week?

    Thanks!

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