Crackerjack Visual Thinking

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NEW May 2022 dates

Visual Thinking Skills Online Course – NEW 2022 dates

NEW May 2022 dates for my Visual Thinking Skills online course have just been released:

Course ref: VTSO 006

5th May 2022 (9am – 4:30pm)

Follow-up session on 27th May 2022 (10am – 12pm)

Course ref: VTSO 007

19th May 2022 (9am – 4:30pm)

Follow-up session on 9th Juune 2022 (10am – 12pm)

The Visual Thinking Skills online training course is designed to help you develop your drawing and listening skills, enabling you to capture people’s thoughts and ideas as they have them in the form of sketches, diagrams and pictures. The images you learn to create will help you explore ideas, capture moments of realisation and help people SEE their BIG IDEAS!

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Find out more about the course in my video below…

https://videos.files.wordpress.com/ULvXrD3Q/visual-thinking-skills-online-course.mp4

Our other services for individuals: SEE Your Future™ Visual Goal Setting | Personal Vision Rich Pictures | Visual Coaching

Our other services for teams and organisations: Visual Meeting Facilitation | Strategic Vision Rich Pictures | Whiteboard Animation | Live Scribing

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March 16, 2022
Visual Thinking saves a business many £100k’s!!!

Visual Thinking saves a business many £100k’s!!!

Those of you who read my posts or have worked with me know that I’m a firm believer in driving real tangible business benefits from the visual thinking approaches I use. I see visual thinking as a ‘need to have’ rather than a ‘nice to have’. I was therefore extremely pleased to receive the following feedback about the real tangible business benefits that a series of whiteboard animations I’d created for a large aerospace organisation achieved:

“You saved us many £100k’s with your visual thinking work on Aircraft Assembly Build. You turned what would have been 1000’s of pages of specifications in 6 languages into a series of simple animations.”
Mark S
Supplier Quality Specialist | Aerospace Industry

Results like these reinforce my belief that visual thinking approaches create real tangible financial benefits for organisations in addition to the well known engagement and communication benefits of helping people see the big picture.

John Ashton

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March 10, 2022
Visual Thinking Skills for Coaching Training
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Course overview

The ‘Visual Thinking Skills for Coaching’ training course is designed to help you develop your drawing and listening skills, enabling you to capture your coaching clients thinking in the form of sketches, diagrams and pictures.

The images you learn to create will help you explore ideas, capture moments of realisation and help your coaching clients SEE their past, present and future visually.

Research has shown that when people are able to see their big ideas, they increase their chances of achieving them by
42%

This course is ideal for anyone involved in coaching – whether running your own coaching practice or providing coaching within an organisation.

Don’t worry if you think you can’t draw! Everyone has the ability to create meaningful images – this isn’t about being the next Leonardo Da Vinci! Helping you create simple drawings that convey meaning and drive discussion is the aim of this course.

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John’s visual skills coaching is not only extremely valuable but also hugely enjoyable. My session had been carefully planned to build on my abilities and with a clear direction of the goals I had said I wanted to achieve. Having this attention from someone so experienced enabled me to move through my learning quickly and find answers to my many questions. A very inspiring day!

Sian Lloyd

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Result
- You will understand how to unleash the power of visual thinking in your own coaching practice to help your clients more easily see and share their big ideas, aspirations, issues and solutions!
- You will be able to identify the key themes and issues that need to be captured and represented visually to aid your client’s learning and understanding.
- You will have the confidence and ability to create pictures in a variety of formats to suit your clients needs.
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Course information

Delivery Method

Face to Face 1 Day Workshop in Nottingham, UK.

Follow-up 2 Hour Zoom Session.

Facebook private group for sharing experiences, asking questions and celebrating visual thinking achievements!

Note: There are a maximum of 12 people on each course.

Course Fee

£475 + VAT

The course fee includes:
- All elements of the course as detailed above.
- Your own set of Neuland no.1 marker pens to take away after the event.
- All materials required on the day.
- All refreshments and a buffet lunch.
- Car parking at the venue or reimbursement of car parking charges.
Dates of next courses

9:30am – 4:45pm | 29th March 2022 |

Beeston Library, Foster Avenue, Beeston, Nottinghamshire. NG9 1AE.

More dates to follow shortly!

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March 4, 2022
Latest client feedback

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Latest feedback: “A fantastic visual representation of our clients journey…”

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Following my recent post about how rich pictures can create a shared understanding of a business (as shown in the example above), I was very pleased to receive the following unsolicited feedback about Crackerjack’s rich picture work from Dassault Systemes (a client I’ve been working with over the last couple of years on various projects):

A fantastic visual representation of our clients journey to value realisation and transformation.

Jonny KeigheyUK & Ireland Sales Director
These rich pictures have become a foundation piece in our account based marketing programs. Not only do they look cool but they are a great way to tell your story in an engaging way. Working with John is always a pleasure too!

Kirsty SmithProgram Marketing Senior Manager | Northern Europe
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Rich pictures are ideal for taking complex subjects and visualising them in an accessible and engaging way, helping create a shared understanding across a businesses people, partners and customers.

I look forward to continuing to work with Kirsty, Jonny and other clients at Dassault Systemes on future projects.

John

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Our other services for individuals: SEE Your Future™ Visual Goal Setting | Personal Vision Rich Pictures | Visual Coaching

Our other services for teams and organisations: Visual Meeting Facilitation | Strategic Vision Rich Pictures | Whiteboard Animation | Live Scribing

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February 15, 2022
Create a SHARED UNDERSTANDING of your business
How rich pictures create a SHARED UNDERSTANDING of your business

Creating a shared understanding of your business across your people, partners and customers creates opportunities for discussion, cooperation and new ideas that will benefit everyone

The benefit of using a rich picture to create a shared understanding…

The example image above shows how a single rich picture image can create a shared understanding of your business for your people, partners and customers.

The example image visualises the following elements to help achieve this understanding:
- Current business issues.
- How effective Knowledge Management will resolve these issues.
- How data will flow around the business.
- How suppliers will be linked in with the new knowledge management process and data flow.
- The benefits of the Knowledge Management process for customers.
This shared understanding of your business results in:
- Your people understanding how their role fits into the business helps drive it forward.
- Your partners understand how they link with your business and can support it effectively.
- Your customers understand your business and the benefits to them of working with you.
This shared understanding of your business across these key groups of people creates opportunities for discussion, cooperation and new ideas that will benefit everyone.

Why rich pictures work so well for creating a shared understanding…

Having a single visual overview of the various elements of your business allows people to see connections and linkages that may otherwise not be apparent. This builds on the brains ability to process visual data extremely effectively and creatively (which is based on the way the brain itself connects information via its neural pathways).

In addition, the visual impact and engagement a rich picture creates encourages people to want to look at the picture and understand the key messages it’s trying to communicate.

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If you would like to find out more about how we can help you create a shared understanding of your vision for your business, please contact us by calling us on +44 (0)115 6483381 or using the contact form below.

You can also find out more about rich pictures on our Strategic Visioning Rich Picture page.

Our other services for individuals: SEE Your Future™ Visual Goal Setting | Personal Vision Rich Pictures | Visual Coaching

Our other services for teams and organisations: Visual Meeting Facilitation | Strategic Vision Rich Pictures | Whiteboard Animation | Live Scribing

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February 1, 2022
Time to Create your Business Vision?

Time to Create or Refresh your Business Vision?

Do you need more CLARITY?

Do you need more CLARITY about where your business is going in 2022 and beyond? Do you need to ENGAGE people with your businesses story?

If so, it’s the right time to create or refresh your business VISION and SHARE it visually with your people, partners and customers.

The Crackerjack Strategic Visioning Process

The Crackerjack Strategic Visioning Process is a creative, interactive and visual approach to helping you create a clear, engaging and impactful vision for your business.

We work with you and your people to explore and visualise your business vision (via either face to face or virtual workshops) and then take those ideas and create a finalised rich picture or whiteboard animation for you to share online and in printed formats.

The 10 Year Vision rich picture will be an accessible reminder of what we are all about and what we are aiming to achieve. The visual works really well and encapsulates our strategy at a high level, giving everyone the wider context.

Becky SpeightCEO | Woodland Trust
John has an ability to see things which we sometimes can’t, but which are always there. His approach was not one of direction, but simply to bring our story to life through his artwork.

Steve WaltonAssociate Director | Strategic Consultancy | AECOM Transportation EMIA
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If you would like to find out more about how we can help you create a clear vision for your business, please contact us by calling us on +44 (0)115 6483381 or using the contact form below.

Our other services for individuals: SEE Your Future™ Visual Goal Setting | Personal Vision Rich Pictures | Visual Coaching

Our other services for teams and organisations: Visual Meeting Facilitation | Strategic Vision Rich Pictures | Whiteboard Animation | Live Scribing

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January 27, 2022
NEW Visual Thinking Products

NEW Visual Thinking Products Coming Soon!

Just a quick post today to let you know some exciting news!

Coming soon – Crackerjack Visual Thinking will be launching a range of visual thinking products for individuals and teams to boost creativity, engagement and productivity.

These will be practical, useable and cost-effective tools that individuals, teams and organisations can use to help them SEE their BIG IDEAS – and implement them.

Watch out for more news on our new products over the coming days!

All the best,

John

Launching early February 2022

Our other services for individuals: SEE Your Future™ Visual Goal Setting | Personal Vision Rich Pictures | Visual Coaching

Our other services for teams and organisations: Visual Meeting Facilitation | Strategic Vision Rich Pictures | Whiteboard Animation | Live Scribing

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January 24, 2022
Engage your customers during the sales process with a Rich Picture
Over the last couple of years, Crackerjack Visual Thinking has been working with clients to support their sales processes by creating bespoke rich pictures showing how their products and services align with their existing and potential customers needs.

Rich pictures help customers ‘see’ how our clients products and services fit into their customers world (with its complexity, challenges and opportunities) and will help them achieve their aims and objectives. This results in:
- Customers understanding how my clients products and services will benefit their business.
- More effective conversations between my clients and their customers due to having a rich picture image to talk through and explore together.
- Customers appreciating the investment and time my clients have taken in preparing the bespoke rich picture for the sales meeting. It demonstrates my clients commitment to wanting to understand their customers needs on a deeper level.
Following successful sales outcomes with their customers, the multiple benefits of rich pictures during the sales process have led clients to adapt this visual thinking approach into their sales processes. We look forward to continuing to support them in achieving successful sales over the coming years.

John Ashton – Crackerjack Visual Thinking

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November 17, 2021
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

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
November 11, 2021