Crackerjack Visual Thinking

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  • How pictures can help people engage for success #engageforsuccess #visualthinking #engagement #strategicnarrative

    Helping people throughout an organisation have a shared understanding the organisations story (often referred to as its strategic narrative) is a key part of any engagement strategy. The story can detail the history of the organisation, its current state and its future vision amongst other important information. For maximum impact, the story should detail the ‘what’ (i.e. what happened and when?), the ‘how’ (i.e. how were the things achieved?) and the ‘impact’ (i.e. how did people feel?). This combination of hard facts and emotion can provide a powerful tool in helping people understand the organisation, their feelings towards it, the role they have played and the role they can play in the future.

    Now imagine that rather than just reading the story, people can see it mapped out visually on a large poster.

    Weetabix
    An operational storymap produced by Crackerjack Visual Thinking for Weetabix…

    They can gather around the poster and use it (either ‘freeform’ or as part of a structured meeting or event) to stimulate thinking and discussion and engage with the organisations story on a deeper level. Imagine if this activity was repeated across the whole organisation so that everybody understood its strategic narrative. Powerful eh?

    Visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com or contact us to find out more about how our visual thinking work can help you tell your organisations story.

  • Graphic recording at Derby and Notts CIPD Annual Meeting #letsENGAGE @DerbyNottsCIPD @davidtmacleod @macs_JamesT

    Had a interesting couple of hours last night graphic recording Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire’s CIPD annual meeting. Both David MacLeod (Engage for Success) and James Taylor (Macildowie) spoke about the need for engagement in the workplace. David stressed the importance of having a clear strategic narrative in an organisation and I was struck by the role visual thinking (both in terms of graphic recording and graphic facilitation) can play in helping to tell an organisations story.

    Here’s the graphic I produced during the meeting:

    Derby and Notts Annual Meeting 2015

  • A (very!) short animation about the benefits of using a visual thinking approach

    #graphicrecording #graphicfacilitation #visualthinking #communication

  • Latest testimonial for Crackerjack Visual Thinking

    Laura Haviland – HR Director Westmill Foods

    We asked John [of Crackerjack Visual Thinking] to come and support our company conference, both to capture the content and spirit of the day and also to interact with our colleagues and gather their responses and reactions.

    It was wonderful to see the graphic unfold as we followed the journey of the day and as the day came to a close the graphic was looking amazing.

    We will print and frame copies of the final graphic at our sites as a reminder of the key messages and our day together.

    John was a pleasure to work with, flexible about how the graphic recording fitted into our day and has produced a fabulous record of our conference.

    #visualthinking #graphicrecording

  • Graphic recording case study: Macmillan Cancer Support ‘Active Everyday’ Campaign

    MacMillan Cancer Support and their partners at Sheffield Hallam University recently asked Crackerjack Visual Thinking to create a live graphic recording of a 2 hour event which was part of their Active Everyday campaign. This campaign is encouraging patients and healthcare professionals to change their mindsets and encourage appropriate exercise as part of the recovery process following treatment for cancer. Here’s the graphic I produced live in the session:

    Active Everyday
    Active Everyday
     After the event, Liam Humphries from Sheffield Hallam University (who organised the event) said:

    “The event included a diverse blend of delegates, including clinicians, nurses, researchers, commissioners, and people affected by cancer. The programme included many different speakers all promoting the benefits of physical activity for people with cancer. I asked John to attend the event because I wanted a creative way of providing delegates with an overview of the day.

    The finished piece was extremely well received by the attendees and John was able to explain his artistic vision from what he had heard throughout the event. I now have a great piece of work that I can share with everyone from the event and for events in the future.”

    If you have a meeting, event or conference coming up then please call me on 0775 282 6227, email jashton.crackerjack@gmail.com or visit our website and join the likes of SuperDry, Weetabix and Three in using the power of visual thinking to help people ‘see’ information more clearly and have better conversations.

  • Graphic recording at the Westmill Foods Festival of Colour

    Had a good day yesterday graphic recording at the Westmill Foods Festival of Colour in Leicester! Here’s the title from the graphic:

    Westmill 18th May

  • Have a look at Crackerjack’s testimonials!

    Here’s our latest testimonial:

    Liam Humphreys – Exercise Science Researcher, Sheffield Hallam University

    John attended the launch event of Active Everyday; a physical activity referral programme for people affected by cancer in Sheffield. The project is funded by Macmillan Cancer Support and Sport England.

    The event included a diverse blend of delegates, including clinicians, nurses, researchers, commissioners, and people affected by cancer. The programme included many different speakers all promoting the benefits of physical activity for people with cancer. I asked John to attend the event because I wanted a creative way of providing delegates with an overview of the day.

    The finished piece was extremely well received by the attendees and John was able to explain his artistic vision from what he had heard throughout the event. I now have a great piece of work that I can share with everyone from the event and for events in the future.

    John was very easy to work with and accommodating to my requests. I would certainly use him again for future events and would highly recommend him to others.

    If you would like a more creative and interactive experience for your events or meetings; John is your man.

    Find out what more of our clients think of working with Crackerjack Visual Thinking by clicking here!

  • Graphic Recording of today’s Active Everyday event in Sheffield

    Enjoyed graphic recording today at the Active Everyday event in Sheffield for Macmillan Cancer Support and Sheffield Hallam University. Here’s the completed graphic from the 2 hour session:

    Active Everyday Event

    @active_everyday #survivorship #movemore #physicalactivity

  • Great feedback received about Crackerjack’s Visualising Great Conversations workshop

    Here’s some feedback about the Visualising Great Conversations workshop recently run by Crackerjack for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust:

    “Very useful and inspiring session – especially around developing good listening skills not just around gaining confidence in actually drawing.”

    “The style of the session was very relaxed and gave confidence to have a go at all the activities.”

    “Enjoyed it and think it would be great to put it to use for info on activities for workshops.”

    “It was really useful and previously I have avoided drawing anything due to lack of skill and this session gave me simple usable ways of getting the point across in a visual way.”

    “I thought he [John] was excellent”.

    “I liked that he used his graphics to demonstrate how they could be used – agenda / exercises.”

    “It felt it was a ‘no pressure, have a go session’ which was perfect for the reluctant!”

    “Excellent session, real food for thought about how we can do things differently within the organisation.”

    Find out more about the workshop and how it could benefit your organisation by clicking here.