Crackerjack Visual Thinking

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  • Creating a vision rich picture for Project 4 Learning Lab

    Creating a vision rich picture for Project 4 Learning Lab

    Crackerjack Visual Thinking recently worked with Project 4 Learning Lab (P4L) to create a rich picture of their vision for the future.

    P4L help organisations find their flow; delivering products to market faster, accelerating flow of knowledge work and accelerating flow of product. They work with organisations including Rolls-Royce, Astra Zeneca, Alstom and Infosys.

    Crackerjack ran a half-day visioning workshop with the team using the Crackerjack Visioning Process™ and then created the rich picture based on the outputs from the process:

    Project 4 Learning Lab Vision

    Click on the image to see the full size PDF version of the rich picture.

    Click HERE to see the animated build version of the image.

    Keith Howells, P4L CEO, shares his experience of the process…

    Why did you want to visualise your vision?

    We were looking for a way to communicate our vision and the work that our organisation does in a holistic way that was both multi-dimensional and engaging at the same time.  We also wanted to ensure that as a team we were absolutely aligned in what we do, how we do it and why that is important to us and our stakeholders.

    How did you find the visioning process (both the workshop and the image development process)?

    The visioning process was exciting and really easy for us all to engage in.  It gave us a structure to have conversations to help us align as a team without it ever feeling constraining.  It was really interesting to see how the process engaged everyone involved and allowed them to express their thoughts and opinions in a slightly different way to how we might in a “normal day”.

    We found the visioning workshop really energising and by the end we felt good that we were in agreement of around 80 or 90% of the inputs that went into the generation of the final picture.

    The image development process was straightforward too because it was staged around the definition of a high level concept and supporting layout before focusing on the details of the imagery and the finer points of the text.

    John was very open to change (whilst also guiding us towards something that was coherent) as we asked for one thing and then decided that we needed something different!  It was a really good experience.

    How do you intend to use the finalised rich picture?

    We plan to use it in two main areas…firstly, to explain to potential new clients about the work we do, how we do it and the difference it typically makes to our clients, and secondly, to support the onboarding of new team members by providing a foundation so that they can become really effective really quickly.

    Find out more…

    Find out more about Project 4 Learning Lab at https://www.p4learninglab.com

    To find out more about the Crackerjack Visioning Process™ and our work, visit https://www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com

     

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  • #Engage people, increase #understanding and improve #communication by embedding #visualthinking into the way your #organisation works

    If a picture speaks a thousand words, just imagine how enabling your people to think visually can help improve communication and creativity in your organisation!

    Helping your people to communicate more effectively and share ideas more easily can be a key method of increasing creativity and productivity in your organisation. Put simply, the quicker your people can generate great ideas and share them with others, the quicker these ideas can be turned into (profitable) reality.

    Developing your people’s visual thinking skills…

    Providing your people with the skills to enable them to share their thinking visually using drawings and sketches can supercharge this ability in your organisation. A single picture could replace a multi-page report or a bullet-pointed multi-page slide show. 10 minutes around a whiteboard could develop a new product idea or find a way to save time in your production process.

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    Our Scribble Labs provide you with options for developing these visual thinking skills. We offer a range of workshops ranging from simply developing drawings skills through to helping people facilitate meetings using visual approaches.

    Visual thinking support when your organisation needs it…

    In addition to developing the visual thinking skills of your people, it can be helpful to call in additional visual thinking support to facilitate creative collaboration and visualisation of more complex ideas. This leaves your people free to get involved in the ideation and productive discussions that visually facilitated meetings can generate.

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    Crackerjack offers visual collaboration support for meetings along with a number of approaches to visualising ideas.

    Embedding visual thinking into your organisation…

    Developing the visual thinking skills of your people alongside calling in visual thinking support when you need it will allow visual thinking approaches to begin to permeate your organisation. The more people experience the visual way of working, the more they will engage with it and begin to see it as ‘the way we share ideas around here’.

    Crackerjack can work with you to embed visual thinking into your organisation. In addition to the approaches detailed above, we can also help to embed visual approaches into areas such as learning and development interventions and induction programmes.

    To find our more about how Crackerjack can help you embed visual thinking into your organisation, please CONTACT US.

    In addition, please take a look at our 1 minute guide below to find the right visual thinking approach for your needs and use the menu above to explore the different visual thinking approaches available from Crackerjack.

  • 1 minute animated guide to finding the right #visualthinking approach for your organisations #learning, #engagement, #collaboration and #communication needs

    1 minute animated guide to finding the right #visualthinking approach for your organisations #learning, #engagement, #collaboration and #communication needs

    Crackerjack Visual Thinking helps people think, learn and collaborate more effectively using a range of visual thinking approaches that engage people, increase understanding and improve communication.

    Take a look at our 1 minute guide below to find the right visual thinking approach for your needs and then contact us and visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com to discuss your specific requirements in more detail.

  • Crackerjack ‘Scribble Labs™’ coming soon! #visualthinking #communication #creativity

    Crackerjack’s ‘Scribble Labs™‘ are designed to help you explore and develop the skills you need to use the power of Visual Thinking in your work (and outside of work too)!

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    So if you would like to:

    • Develop your drawing skills…
    • Capture ideas, conversations and concepts visually as they happen (often referred to as scribing or graphic recording)…
    • Use visual thinking approaches to increase creativity and collaboration in your meetings and events…

    …then do contact us or visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com

    More information to follow shortly…

  • These organisations have one thing in common: #visual #thinking

    What do Macmillan Cancer Support, the NHS and Westmill Foods all have in common?

    The answer is that they all want to use visual thinking tools to help communicate information to people (including in these cases staff, patients and strategic business partners) and start or continue important conversations in their organisations.

    They have recognised how incorporating visual approaches increases the understanding and engagement their target audiences have with their work.

    Crackerjack Visual Thinking will be creating solutions including rich pictures and an interactive improvement guide to support the above organisations in their work.

    Find out more about how we can help you by phoning us on +44 (0)775 282 6227, emailing us or completing our contact form.

    John Ashton
    Crackerjack Visual Thinking

    #visualthinking #collaboration #communication #engagement

  • How a drawing can help increase your profits #visualthinking #roi #bizitalk

    Click on the sketch below to see how helping you develop and sketch out your big ideas can enable your team members to work more effectively and generate increased profits for your business.

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    To find out more about how Crackerjack can help you visualise your next idea, please contact us on +44 (0)775 282 6227 or visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com