Crackerjack Visual Thinking

Category: Engaging your people

  • Visual Thinking + Design Thinking = Innovation

    I was graphic recording at an large event yesterday where one of the key themes of the day centred around design thinking and its ability to drive innovative (and sometimes unexpected) solutions in organisations. Of particular interest to me was the use of visual thinking techniques including graphic visioning, graphic recording and sketching during the design thinking process (including developing customer/client ‘personas’ and during the ideation and prototyping phases of the process). Great to see visual thinking playing a key role in helping organisations innovate via the design thinking process!!! #designthinking #visualthinking #bizitalk #communication

  • Helping a client understand their digital future

    Great day yesterday in Switzerland graphic recording to help a large organisation visualise their digital future. #visualise #future #bizitalk #graphicrecording

  • Graphic recording at Sheffield Hallam University

    Looking forward to graphic recording again at Sheffield Hallam University and visualising their Facilities Directorate event tomorrow. #graphic recording #visualthinking #sheffieldhallamuniversity

  • What can Graphic Recording add to my meeting or event?

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    A graphic recording will tell the story of your meeting or event including themes, facts, memorable conversations and key images.

    Having a graphic recording created during your meeting or event allows:

    • Facilitators/meeting leaders to:
      • use the graphic recording to summarise progress during the meeting.
      • use the graphic recording to summarise the meeting at the end of the event.
    • Participants to:
      • check their understanding during the meeting and clarify anything they may have missed.
      • use the graphic recording as an aide memoir after the event.
    • People who weren’t able to attend the event to:
      • ‘see’ the meeting as it happened using the graphic recording as a guide.
    • Everyone to:
      • use the graphic recording as a tool to stimulate discussion and debate back in the workplace (and beyond!) after the event.

    Click here to find out more about Crackerjack People Development’s graphic recording service.

  • Helping the story live after the event

    Great three days in Paris graphic recording for large global organisation. Even better that all participants committed to use the graphics to share the story of their meeting with their teams around the world!!! #engagement #graphicrecording #visualthinking

  • Off to Paris we go!

    Just had confirmed a three day graphic recording job in Paris for a client who wants an engaging record of the event that can be used both during and after the meeting to engage team members across the organisation. #graphicrecording #visualthinking #engagement

  • The Friday ‘Visual Thinking’ Challenge

    Here’s a visual thinking challenge for you and your colleagues on a Friday afternoon:

    On one side of A4 paper, you have 3 minutes to draw (using only pictures) your organisations company strategy.

    Once you have completed the challenge, compare your drawing to your colleagues and discuss:

    – what analogies you’ve used and why?
    – similarities and differences between your drawings?
    – what elements of the strategy were easiest to represent in your drawing?
    – what elements of the strategy were hardest to represent in your drawing?

    I think this should spark some interesting debates to end the week!!!

  • Small business owners – do you give yourself time to think about your business?

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    Small business owners out there – do you give yourself time to think about your business and where it’s going?

    Do you create the opportunity to step back and think about your business model, your customer experience and how you engage with your people?

    Do you get other business owners feedback about your business?

    If the answer to any of the above questions is ‘NO’, then our new workshop ‘Labs’ can help you to take a fresh look at your business. Click here to find out more about our Business Model, Customer  Experience and People Engagement Labs being held in Nottingham in February and March 2013…

    #Smallbusiness #SME #thinkaboutyourbusiness #visualthinking

  • People engagement a key driver in business success

    Engagement (a persons involvement, commitment and satisfaction with an organisation) has been repeatedly shown to be one of the key drivers in:

    • Staff performance
    • Customer loyalty and spend
    • Effective business partnerships
    • Stakeholder support and buy-in

    Learn more… #PeopleEngagement