Crackerjack Visual Thinking

Tag: Engage

  • #Visual #coffee

    Whilst out and about today I just had a quick visual thought. Would the coffee I just purchased (shown above) seem as appetising if the barista hadn’t taken the time to create the pattern in the froth?

    Something simple that takes a short time to do makes a big difference to my perception of the quality and potentially the taste of the coffee.

    Which is a bit like taking the time to share information visually: if you use an image or sketch to share information, people’s perception of the quality of the information you’re sharing increases and the potential for them wanting to ‘taste’ the messages you’re sharing also increases.

    So, take the time to create a ‘pattern in the froth’ next time you want to engage your people!

    John

    Crackerjack Visual Thinking

  • #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.

  • Got a complicated message to communicate? Let a rich picture make the complex simple!!! #visualthinking #communicate #engage

    Have you spent ages trying to simplify a complicated message into something that will inform and engage your people across your organisation? If so, a rich picture may be just the thing you are looking for!

    Rich pictures distill your key messages into a one page visual that can be shared across your whole organisation in a variety of printed and on-line formats.

    We’ve created rich pictures for organisations including The Woodland Trust, The Institute of Quarrying and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

    Here’s what some of our clients had to say about working with Crackerjack to create their rich pictures:

    “John has the amazing ability to make sense of complex information and translate a concept into something that is creative, meaningful and has impact! Creating our High Performing Hospital ‘rich picture’ required incorporating a diverse range of views and opinions – never easy-  but John was patient and flexible and as a result we have something that has wide appeal and application.” Helen Farrington | Associate Director of OD and Training | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

    “I commissioned John Ashton of Crackerjack Visual Thinking to create a rich picture and hand-drawn animation of the key themes I explore in my book ‘Jump!: Deliver astonishing results by unleashing your leadership team’. John worked with me to understand the key messages I wanted to communicate and developed a metaphor and storyboard that visualised the story I wanted to tell. The rich picture and animation are excellent and give me two valuable resources that I can share with clients, use in presentations and display on my website. I found working with John to be both thought provoking and supportive and look forward to working with him again on future projects.” Chris Henderson | Founder of One Third More

    “John of Crackerjack Visual Thinking was employed by the Institute of Asphalt Technology to create both a rich picture of our new vision and a graphic recording of our 50th anniversary conference. It is evident from the quality of his work that he has a true talent not only in terms of creating  the actual artwork itself but also in terms of listening, understanding and interpreting our requirements. His work is outstanding on many levels. Never before have I received such positive commentary on any project.  Thank you John – it was a pleasure to work with you.” Geraldine Walsh | President | Institute for Asphalt Technology

    To discuss creating rich pictures for your organisation, please CONTACT US.

     

  • Crackerjack Visual Thinking rich picture commissioned by Greenfields Community Housing #visualthinking #greenfieldsCH

    Crackerjack Visual Thinking is pleased to share that we’ve been commissioned by Greenfields Community Housing to create a rich picture to support work the organisation is currently undertaking.

    We look forward to working with them over the next few weeks!

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  • High Performing Hospital rich picture created for Manchester University Hospitals #NHS Foundation Trust #visualthinking #MFTnhs

    Crackerjack Visual Thinking is pleased to be able to share a rich picture we created for Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MUH) earlier this year. The image was created to drive discussion and understanding across the organisation of what a high-performing hospital (sometimes referred to as a model hospital) looks like.

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    Helen Farrington, Associate Director of OD and Training at MUH, comments:

    “John from Crackerjack has the amazing ability to make sense of complex information and translate a concept into something that is creative, meaningful and has impact! Creating our ‘rich picture’ required incorporating a diverse range of views and opinions- never easy – but John was patient and flexible and as a result we have something that has wide appeal and application.”

    Crackerjack is currently developing a number of other rich pictures for MUH.

    To find out more about rich pictures and how they could help you engage and inform people in your organisation, please CONTACT US.

  • Crackerjack creating rich pictures for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust #nhs #nuh #magnetrecognition #visualthinking #engage

    Crackerjack creating rich pictures for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust #nhs #nuh #magnetrecognition #visualthinking #engage

    I’m very pleased to share that Crackerjack Visual Thinking will be working with Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust to create two rich pictures and an animation to share key themes and ideas relating to both nursing and midwifery professional practice models (PPM) and the MAGNET recognition programme respectively.

    Here’s a sneak peak at part of the PPM rich picture that’s currently in development:

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    To find out more about rich pictures and how they can help you communicate and engage with your people, please CONTACT US.

    John Ashton
    Director – Crackerjack Visual Thinking

  • Don’t take our word for it! Here’s the latest client feedback about working with Crackerjack Visual Thinking #engage #communicate #visualise

    We’ve just received the following feedback from Chris Henderson, Founder of One Third More about the work we’ve recently undertaken for him:

    “I commissioned John Ashton of Crackerjack Visual Thinking to create a rich picture and hand-drawn animation of the key themes I explore in my book ‘Jump!: Deliver astonishing results by unleashing your leadership team’. John worked with me to understand the key messages I wanted to communicate and developed a metaphor and storyboard that visualised the story I wanted to tell. The rich picture and animation are excellent and give me two valuable resources that I can share with clients, use in presentations and display on my website. I found working with John to be both thought provoking and supportive and look forward to working with him again on future projects.”

    Chris Henderson | Founder of One Third More

    Here’s the rich picture we created for Chris. Click on the image to see the hand-drawn animation:

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    To find out more about our work, please contact us

  • Institute of Quarrying (@IQ_UK) ask Crackerjack #VisualThinking to create rich pictures to help #engage people with the world of #quarrying

    We’re very pleased to share that the Institute of Quarrying (IQ) have asked us to create two rich pictures to engage people in the world of quarrying. The rich pictures will visualise the life-cycle of a quarry and the processes and job roles involved in quarrying.

    The rich pictures will used for a variety of purposes including induction, training, communications and awareness raining activity.

    Excitingly, the rich pictures will be also be displayed near the IQs QuarryGarden at the first ever RHS Chatsworth Flower Show being held in June 2017.

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    Quarry Garden (picture courtesy of the Institute of Quarrying)

    We look forward to working with the IQ again on this project and also wish the IQ “Happy Birthday” as they celebrate their centenary this year!

    To find out more about our work, please CONTACT US

  • Variety is the spice of [#visualthinking] life! #communicate #think #engage

    It’s been a bit quiet here on the blog over the last few weeks as we’ve been working on a variety of new projects. Variety is definitely the right word as over the last couple of weeks we’ve been involved in:

    • Developing a hand-drawn animation to help people better understand the UK Power Network…

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    • Helping to capture how care services can be better designed for those with dementia and other cognitive conditions…

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    • Developing a hand-drawn animation to raise awareness of health and safety across a large multi-national aerospace organisation…
    • Developing a rich of picture of how a ‘Model Hospital‘ operates…
    • Working with a senior team to visualise what a great place to work looks like…

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    This variety demonstrates how visual thinking approaches can successfully help all types of organisations to have better conversations and share ideas and information more effectively.

    To discuss how visual thinking could help your organisation, please CONTACT US.