Crackerjack Visual Thinking

Tag: Crackerjack

  • 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

     

    #project4learninglab #visualthinking #crackerjack #visioning #richpictures #engagement #communication #business #vision #onboarding #alignment #collaboration #storytelling

  • Delighted to welcome our new client Project 4 Learning Lab (P4L)

    Delighted to welcome our new client Project 4 Learning Lab (P4L)

    We’re delighted to welcome our new client Project 4 Learning Lab (P4L).

    P4L believe in the untapped potential of humanity. Their vision is to unleash human value and accelerate progress towards a thriving, inclusive, and sustainable world for generations to come. Working with clients including Rolls-Royce, P4L harness the power of collaboration, empower organisations to open the valve, make work flow, and release their potential for positive impact in a fast-changing world. Find out more about their work here: https://www.p4learninglab.com/

    Excitingly, as well being a client of Crackerjack, we will also be working together to combine the power of visual thinking with P4L’s ability to help organisations ‘find their flow’. More information on this over the next few weeks!

    project4learninglab p4L crackerjack visualthinking simplifycomplexity communication visualthinking agile

  • Visual thinking: Helping simplify complexity in UK power generation

    Visual thinking: Helping simplify complexity in UK power generation

    Creating a future-proof power generation system for the UK is a hugely complex and costly task (as todays announcement of the UK Governments £14.2bn investment in Sizewell C shows).

    Here at Crackerjack, I’ve been working with a client to help them simplify complexity and visualise how they can help increase the speed and efficiency of three of these major infrastructure construction projects: Sizewell C, Hinkley Point C and the STEP fusion energy project.

    In each case, I’ve been able to create visual rich pictures that have facilitated a deeper and clearer understanding of my clients work for the project teams from each of these construction projects. This also works in reverse, with the creation of the rich pictures enhancing my clients understanding of how they can best support these vital construction projects.

    In one case, the rich picture I originally produced for my client is now being used by a senior exec member of one of the infrastructure construction project teams as a key element of their keynote presentations to key stakeholders (including to the UK Government).

    The more complex a project becomes, the more important it is to simplify complexity in order to engage people with your work and ensure they understand the role you can play in it. Visual thinking and rich pictures can be the bridge between complexity, and simplicity and understanding.

    Find out more about my work here on our website or contact me to explore simplifying your complex project.

    John

    Crackerjack visualthinking communication engagement understanding powergeneration sizewellc hinkleypointC HPC SZC STEP fusionenergy simplifycomplexity

  • Great feedback from Domestic & General

    Great feedback from Domestic & General

    Really pleased to receive the following feedback from Mathew Scoines, Programme Director at Domestic & General, about a rich picture project recently completed for him:

    Crackerjack was brought into Domestic and General to help us visually represent an extremely complex new platform via an easily consumable and readable ‘rich picture’.  The process was led by John from Crackerjack who achieved this remit and delivered a service and outcome beyond our expectations.  The method by which Crackerjack engaged with us and elicited the information required to shape this visual output was extremely well crafted and fascinating to be part of.  

    John guided us patiently and professionally throughout the process and helped us articulate and break down the key aspects of our new platform solution supporting stakeholder and subject matter expert discussions to elicit the right information at the right level of detail.  John listened carefully and focussed on genuinely understanding our business and the context for this task.  This resulted in a rich picture which skilfully encapsulates a very complex solution and presents it in a format which is easily consumable by and useful to both seasoned experts in our business as well as the layperson.   

     I would recommend both the use of a rich picture to convey complexity in a form which is easy to read and understand and most certainly recommend Crackerjack as the organisation to help achieve this.

     We have commissioned Crackerjack now to take the rich picture and build a story based animation and narration around it – this is going extremely well and I have no doubt will turn out great with John’s guidance and expertise.

     Mathew Scoines

    Programme Director

    Domestic and General

  • #livescribing back in 2016!

    #livescribing back in 2016!

    Site icon
    #livescribing back in 2016!
  • Whiteboard Animation – 1 minute overview

    Whiteboard Animation – 1 minute overview

    STORIES SHARED…

    Whiteboard animation is ideal for bringing extra energy and impact to communicating ideas and stories to your people.

    Eastlight Community Homes Value for Money Whiteboard Animation

    Deliberately simple in their approach, yet highly impactful, whiteboard animations build-up stories and guide people around the narrative at a pace that enables understanding and maintains engagement. Voiceovers, music, sound effects and motion add further layers of engagement to the experience.

    WHAT THE PROCESS INCLUDES:

    • Scoping session.
    • Storyboarding.
    • An iterative design process.
    • Music and VoiceOver (where required).
    • Full feedback and sense-checking phase with stakeholders and a cross-section of your target audience.

    RESULT: You have an impactful animation that be shared across your multi-media channels including websites and social media feeds.

    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…

    CONTACT US
  • Personal Vision Rich Pictures – 1 minute overview

    Personal Vision Rich Pictures – 1 minute overview

    A Personal Vision rich picture illustrates your professional, life or career goals and the journey you need to take to achieve them. Ideal for career changers and those looking to take take the next steps in their personal and professional growth.

    IMAGE ABOVE: OVERVIEW OF THE TYPES OF SUBJECTS WE’LL EXPLORE DURING THE CREATION OF YOUR PERSAONL VISION RICH PICTURE.

    Building on organisational vision rich pictures (examples shown below), bespoke personal vision rich pictures 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.

    The Personal Vision process combines elements of coaching with visual thinking approaches 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.

    WHAT THE PROCESS INCLUDES:

    • 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.

  • 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

    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…

    CONTACT US
  • Organisational Vision Rich Pictures – 1 minute overview

    Organisational Vision Rich Pictures – 1 minute overview

    Organisational Vision Rich Pictures increase engagement with your organisations teams, partners and customers and help you share complex stories and messages in easy to understand and impactful ways.

    A Crackerjack rich picture

    Used standalone or as part of planned communication and engagement initiative, rich pictures can be shared on-line or in print formats including posters, murals, large format displays and interactive business games.

    The rich picture process includes:

    • Scoping sessions.
    • An iterative design process.
    • Full feedback and sense-checking phase with stakeholders and a cross-section of your target audience.

    RESULT: Teams, partners and customers are engaged with your organisations vision.

    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…

    CONTACT US