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.
John Ashton – Crackerjack Visual Thinking
The brief was to create an engaging, informative and fun animation that provided an overview of how Eastlight provides value for money for its customers. David has kindly agreed to let us share the ‘Value for Money Journey’ animation below which takes people “along a road very near you”…
After the event, we asked David how the animation had been received by the AGM audience and his answer was:
“Very well. We presented the animation at the meeting yesterday evening and had some very positive immediate feedback. People liked the different and more informal approach to this subject and we are going to put it onto our website.”
David Hall | Executive Director Resources | Eastlight Homes
This was great to hear and we’re really pleased that the animation will provide on-going value via Eastlight’s website (in addition to the original aim of creating the animation for use at Eastlight’s AGM).
John Ashton – Crackerjack Visual Thinking
For various reasons, many organisations only begin planning for the new year ahead a month or two after it has begun! That’s a couple of months where people may not have the clarity or direction they need to lay the foundations for a successful year ahead.
Creating a clear vision for 2022 ahead of time allows people to prepare themselves, their teams and their organisations ready for the start of the New Year. Investing time and resource into creating your vision now will pay dividends (metaphorical and literal!) in the coming year.
To discuss how best to visualise your vision for 2022, please do give us a call on +44 (0)115 6483381 or contact us.
John
John Ashton – Founder of Crackerjack Visual Thinking
Giving your people clarity about what they need to do at any time of year is important in the retail sector, but even more so when faced with the pressures and demands of the all important Christmas period.
Whilst you will probably have your sourcing plans in place, ensuring that your manufacturing, supply chain, order fulfilment, support services and customer facing operations are aligned, joined-up and working effectively will remain a key challenge over the next few months.
This is not only a matter of helping people understand their specific role in your organisation, but also helping them understand how their actions directly and indirectly impact on other people and processes involved upstream and downstream from them in your seasonal operations.
Illustrating the vision for your organisations Christmas operations via a rich picture can be one of the most effective ways of aligning your people to your plans in the run up to this key trading period. This approach creates a shared understanding of what needs to be done, as well as helping people see how they can best support their colleagues across the organisation in achieving your seasonal trading goals.
To talk more about creating a clear vision for sales success this Christmas, please call +44 (0)115 6483381 or contact us.
John
John Ashton – Founder of Crackerjack Visual Thinking
Helping people easily and clearly see the value and benefit of an organisation and its work (via rich pictures, graphic recording or whiteboard animation) serves a number of purposes:
Our clients use our images and animations as both standalone resources and often as part of a wider internal or external communication initiative.
Another experience our clients have in common is that the more they use our illustrations and animations across their organisations, the better the shared understanding of their organisation becomes. This enables more effective conversations and meetings and, in turn, increases action and productivity – all of which are vital to achieving the organisations aims and objectives.
You can read more about our clients experiences of working with Crackerjack Visual Thinking on our home page.
John Ashton – Founder of Crackerjack Visual Thinking
The health check uses the SIMPLE mnemonic to focus on 6 key areas of running a business:
Simply work your way around the template and see if you can tick all the boxes against each of the statements shown.
If you can tick all the boxes then great! Although don’t be complacent and regularly use the health check to ensure this continues to be the case.
If you can’t tick all the boxes, take time to examine the reasons for this and plan the actions you need to take to enable you to tick the box.
Click on the button below to download the SIMPLE business health check:
If you’d like to talk more about the health check, please do get in contact.
Regards,
John
John Ashton | Crackerjack Visual Thinking
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.
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.
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.
