Crackerjack Visual Thinking

Tag: engage for success

  • How will you tell you organisations story in 2016? #engagement #e4s

    ‘Providing a strong strategic narrative (story) about an organisation, where it’s come from and where it’s going to’ was defined as one of the four key enablers of engagement in David MaCleod’s ‘Engaging for Success’ report to the UK Government.

    Have you thought about how you will share your organisations story with both new and existing team members during 2016?

    Sharing the strategic narrative visually (e.g. as a ‘rich picture’) is proven to enable better understanding of an organisations vision, strategy and values. This enables better conversations which create a deeper shared understanding of what is required to achieve success for both the organisations and the people within it.

    Find out more about how you can increase engagement in your organisation using visual thinking at www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com

  • 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