Crackerjack Visual Thinking

Tag: organisation

  • Small details = Big Conversations #visualthinking #engagement

    I’ve just completed a rich picture for a client to help them communicate some important ideas to one of their key customers. As with all of our visual thinking work, the images we create are there to facilitate the right conversations between people.

    To do this we ensure each element of the image serves a purpose and communicates a key message. It’s often the small details included in the images that can create the biggest conversations!

    The example below shows just a few small elements of a much larger image we created for the client:

    To find out how Crackerjack Visual Thinking can help you visualise the small details you need to facilitate the ‘big conversations’ in your organisation, visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com or email info@crackerjackvisualthinking.com

  • Seeing the ‘big picture’ #visualthinking #engagement

    One of Crackerjack’s clients sent through a picture of the rich picture we created of their organisations past and future journey. It was great to see it in pride of place in their office!

    A Crackerjack rich picture
    A Crackerjack rich picture visualising an organisations journey in one of our clients offices

    We created the rich picture using a collaborative approach with the organisations team members, using their initial thoughts and ideas as the basis for the final image.

    The rich picture is used to by existing team members to keep the organisations mission and objectives at the front of their minds in the work they are doing. The rich picture is also used as part of the induction process for new team members and as an introduction for visitors to the organisation and its work.

    To find our more about our work visit http://www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com or email info@crackerjackvisualthinking.com

  • Discussing how #visualthinking can improve organisational #engagement on the 12th October 2015 @engage4success Radio Show

    I am looking forward to speaking with Jo Moffat on the Engage for Success Radio Show on Monday 12th October at 5:30pm. I’ll be discussing how visual thinking approaches can help improve engagement across organisations.

    Tune in here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/engage-for-success

  • Use the power of the doodle to engage your people! #e4s #engagement #communication

    This week, why not ask people in your organisation to spend 5 minutes creating a quick doodle of what they think the purpose of your organisation is. Display the completed doodles (either virtually on your intranet or on a wall in your workplace) and encourage people to have a look at them. Then start listening out for the insightful, challenging and sometimes revelatory ideas that will be driven out by this organisational conversation!!!

    The key question to ask yourself following this activity is:

    “Is our organisational story (i.e.why we do what we do) clear to all of our people?”

    If so, great!

    If not, think of the effect this may have on your organisation and how you can go about ensuring that you are telling your organisational story more clearly.

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  • The Friday ‘Visual Thinking’ Challenge

    Here’s a visual thinking challenge for you and your colleagues on a Friday afternoon:

    On one side of A4 paper, you have 3 minutes to draw (using only pictures) your organisations company strategy.

    Once you have completed the challenge, compare your drawing to your colleagues and discuss:

    – what analogies you’ve used and why?
    – similarities and differences between your drawings?
    – what elements of the strategy were easiest to represent in your drawing?
    – what elements of the strategy were hardest to represent in your drawing?

    I think this should spark some interesting debates to end the week!!!

  • Lesson’s from a blizzard

    As I write, I’m looking out from my office window into a raging blizzard. The tree’s and building’s I can normally see have all but disappeared, the snow flying past the window obscures my vision.

    However, if I half close my eyes and squint, I can actually see the outline of the building’s and tree’s more clearly.

    The lesson from this blizzard is that sometimes we have to see less to see more. By reducing the amount of detail we can see, the bigger picture becomes clearer.

    By applying this lesson to an organisation and reducing the amount of detail flying around in your business, can you help everyone see the bigger picture more clearly?

    #blizzardthinking

  • Graphic Recording can help engage people after your meeting or event…

    In my experience, a graphic recording always creates interest and discussion when created in real-time during an event. However, in many ways the real power of graphic recording is in its ability to stimulate discussion back in the workplace after the event. Sharing a visual record of your meeting allows everyone to clearly and easily ‘see’ what happened during your event (including those who weren’t there) and can create valuable organisational conversations and debates. #graphicrecording