Thanks to Dan Lord at Forecast Design (visit their Facebook page here) for these great photo’s of my work from the #IQ2105 Conference earlier this week.
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Here’s an ‘action shot’ taken of me graphic recording at the Intelligent Quarrying 2015 Conference.
Thanks to Phil James and Sarah Fry from the Institute of Quarrying for asking me to create a visual recording of their annual event for the quarrying industry.
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Very pleased to be featured in an article by Laura french-Constant of Research to Action about Visual Note Taking at Conferences. You can read the article by clicking here.
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I had a great day yesterday creating a live graphic recording to help Sheffield Hallam University’s marketing teams visualise the role they play in delivering their new marketing strategy. The visual used a jigsaw pieces metaphor to show how the teams will work together to achieve this goal. One of the key aims of the visualisation was to highlight the linkages and alignments between the work of the different teams and it was great to see some very clear actionable themes emerging during the day!
Here’s the graphic recording I created during yesterday’s Teenage and Young Adult Conference in Sheffield focussing on providing care for 16 – 24 year olds with life-limiting illnesses. Representatives from a number organisations working in this important healthcare area were present and the graphic recording will provide them with a visual memory of the event. The graphic recording will be shared more widely to enable those people who weren’t able to attend to understand the key ideas and concepts emerging from the event.
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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.
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?
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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:
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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.
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