Crackerjack Visual Thinking

Category: Learning and Development

  • How rich picture’s help engage people during onboarding

    How rich picture’s help engage people during onboarding

    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
    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 to contact me or visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com to find out more about our work.

    John

  • Quick Guide to identifying the right Visual Thinking solution for your business needs

    Quick Guide to identifying the right Visual Thinking solution for your business needs

    A quick post to share our Quick Guide to identifying the right visual thinking solution for your business needs. Hope you find it helpful!

    Use our QUICK GUIDE below to identify the right visual thinking solutions for your needs…

    THE SUBJECT YOU WANT TO VISUALISE, COMMUNICATE AND ENGAGE PEOPLE WITH…CLICK ON THE LINKS TO LEARN OUT MORE ABOUT OUR VISUAL THINKING SOLUTIONS…
    Organisational / Business Vision >Rich Pictures | WHITEBOARD ANIMATIONS
    Organisational / Business Strategy >Rich Pictures | WHITEBOARD ANIMATIONS
    Culture and Values >Rich Pictures | WHITEBOARD ANIMATIONS
    Transformation and Change >Rich Pictures | WHITEBOARD ANIMATIONS
    Customer Engagement and Sales Presentations / Pitches >Rich Pictures | WHITEBOARD ANIMATIONS
    Induction and Onboarding >Rich Pictures | WHITEBOARD ANIMATIONS
    Health & Safety and Regulatory Compliance >Rich Pictures | WHITEBOARD ANIMATIONS
    Meetings, Events and Conferences >LIVE SCRIBING | GRAPHIC RECORDING | VISUAL FACILITATION | GRAPHIC FACILITATION
    People Development >PERSONAL VISIONS | Rich Pictures
    Leadership Development >PERSONAL VISIONS | Rich Pictures
    Visual Thinking Skills Development >SCRIBBLE LAB™ TRAINING

    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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  • How Personal Visions can increase the success of your Leadership Development programme

    How Personal Visions can increase the success of your Leadership Development programme

    The success of your Leadership Development programme is often dependent on helping leaders see how investing time in their development will help them progress towards their professional and life goals.

    Visualising the development journey they need to take to achieve their professional and life goals and ambitions can be extremely helpful for a number of reasons including:

    A Personal Vision acts as a leadership development compass…

    Visualising a leaders personal vision as an image provides them with a quick reference map as they progress along their leadership development journey. It helps them see the skills they need to develop, the relationships they need to build, the decisions they need to make and the behaviours they need to grow. It acts as the leadership development compass to keep them on course.

    The process of creating a Personal Vision is as important as the vision image itself!

    The very act of creating their personal vision can also be as educational to your leaders as the end vision image itself. Going through the process can reveal new ideas, things they hadn’t thought about, new pathways to their goals – or even completely new leadership opportunities they hadn’t considered before!

    How to integrate Personal Visions into your leadership development programme…

    The ideal time to help your leaders to create their personal vision is at the beginning of your leadership development programme – as a compass setting exercise. However, creating a personal vision at any point during the development programme will also be beneficial for the reasons described above.

    Feel free to use the questions in the image above as a catalyst to help your leaders create their own vision. If you would like some additional help with the process of helping your leaders create their own 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

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  • 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

    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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  • 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

  • Achieving your organisation’s Vision: 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.

    To discuss achieving your organisations vision in more detail, please do get in touch using the options below.

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    Phone: +44 (0)115 6483381

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  • Achieving your organisation’s Vision: 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.

    To discuss achieving your organisations vision in more detail, please do get in touch using the options below.

    Get in touch…

    Phone: +44 (0)115 6483381

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  • Achieving your organisation’s Vision: Develop your Vision

    In this blog episode, I talk about how visualising your organisations Vision can improve communication, understanding and business performance.

    To discuss achieving your organisations vision in more detail, please do get in touch using the options below.

    Get in touch…

    Phone: +44 (0)115 6483381

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  • Achieving your organisation’s Vision: A joined-up approach is vital!

    Having a Vision and then successfully achieving it requires a coordinated approach focusing on three key activities: Communicating, Enabling and Embedding. In this blog episode, I share my thoughts on the importance ensuring you have a joined-up approach to these key activities (and what can happen if you don’t!):

    To discuss achieving your organisations vision in more detail, please do get in touch using the options below.

    Get in touch…

    Phone: +44 (0)115 6483381

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    Thank you for your response. ✨