Crackerjack Visual Thinking

Tag: brain

  • Post-It notes and Visual Thinking

    Many people will have experienced using Post-It notes to structure thoughts and ideas in meetings and training events. However, in many cases the Post-It notes simply have words/phrases on them resulting in them being, in effect, a moveable linear list. Research continues to show that linear lists are not the most effective way of helping your brain understand complex and diverse information.

    Visual Thinking encourages people to share their thoughts using pictures, diagrams, sketches and other visual techniques. This helps people:

    • see concepts more clearly
    • see the relationships between different ideas more easily
    • resolve problems more efficiently

    Crackerjack People Development can help you and your organisation harness the power of Visual Thinking by designing and facilitating visual meetings and events and helping your people develop Visual Thinking skills in your organisation.

    To find out more, please click here to contact us.

     

  • 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!!!