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  • Creating your Personal Vision – a new service from Crackerjack Visual Thinking to help you map out your professional and life goals and help keep you on track

    Creating your Personal Vision – a new service from Crackerjack Visual Thinking to help you map out your professional and life goals and help keep you on track

    Having a clear idea of where you’re heading in life (both professionally and personally) enables you to make the right decisions and choices along your journey towards your goals and ambitions. Having a map ensures you keep on track!

    I’m very pleased to share with you that Crackerjack Visual Thinking is now offering its new ‘Create your Personal Vision’ service to those people looking to map out their own (or their teams) goals and ambitions and understand the steps they need to take to achieve them. Find out more about the new service below and feel free to contact me to learn more about the benefits of creating your Personal Vision.

    John Ashton – Crackerjack Visual Thinking

    AMBITIONS REALISED…

    We work with you to create your professional or life vision (or combination of the two) as a rich picture. This illustrates your professional or life goals and the journey you need to take to achieve them.

    IMAGE ABOVE: OVERVIEW OF THE TYPES OF SUBJECTS WE’LL EXPLORE DURING THE CREATION OF YOUR PERSONAL VISION RICH PICTURE.

    Building on our tried and tested approach to creating organisational vision rich pictures (examples shown below), your bespoke personal vison rich picture can be used as a map to help guide you in making the right decisions and choices along your journey and also as a reminder of what you are aiming to achieve.

    This can be particuarly helpful during times of change or challenge, when a clear focus on the future and a big picture view is most needed.

    Combining elements of coaching with our visual thinking approach enables us to support you as you plan for your future.

    Whether it’s a 1 year vision or a 20 year vision, your personal vision rich picture will be a reference point that travels with you on your journey.

    We are happy to work with you to update your personal vision rich picture on a regular or ad-hoc basis to ensure your personal vision continues to guide you towards your goals.

    WHAT’S INCLUDED:

    • Initial session to agree the scope, focus and duration of the visioning process.
    • Virtual/face to face sessions to explore your professional or life vision.
    • Creation of your personalised vision rich picture.

    RESULT: You can see your personal goals and ambitions and have a clear route to achieveing them.

    We’d love to talk about your ideas and see if we can help you visualise them!

    Click on the button below and let’s start a conversation…

    CONTACT US
  • A quick infographic showing the practical business benefits of using visual thinking tools in your work

    A quick infographic showing the practical business benefits of using visual thinking tools in your work

    Visual thinking is a term that you may have heard of, but it isn’t always clear what practical business benefit can be derived from using visual thinking approaches in your work.

    To help with this confusion, I’ve put together this quick guide to the Visual Thinking Toolkit that describes how each tool can help you in your business and what the high level result of this approach will be. I hope you find it useful.

    click here To print or download a copy (no email address required!)

    John Ashton – Crackerjack Visual Thinking

    We’d love to talk about your ideas and see if we can help you visualise them!

    Click on the button below and let’s start a conversation…

    CONTACT US

  • Latest client feedback re: ‘Our Strategy 2021-2026’ rich picture created for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    “Good Morning John,

    I hope you are well, apologies for the delay in sending this over, having now distributed the image you created for us to represent our NMAHP journey to excellence using our new 2021 – 2026 strategy I am delighted to say the feedback  I have received from colleagues has been very positive indeed.

    As per the original brief to create a pictorial reference / image for the strategy you have truly delivered!

    Colleagues have commented that this piece of work has helped them to simply explain and discuss our combined aims and objectives to continue to support our People our Patients and our Populations.

    On a personal note I have enjoyed working with you on this process as you know it has been a key objective to deliver this for Sam our Chief Nurse and the Trust and I believe we have succeeded!.

    Thanks again John / Crackerjack I am sure we will work together again soon.

    Kind regards,

    Mark”

    Mark Britton | Business Manager | CNO
    Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    Click on the image above to view full size version

  • Latest testimonial for Crackerjack Visual Thinking

    “I worked alongside John when we were both supporting the Planning Organisation within Rolls Royce with their transformation programme.

    John has a fantastic ability to help teams articulate a vision and really draw out of the organisation what it is they are trying to achieve through listening to the conversations, and honing in on what really matters.

    John has the unique ability to come up with something that the organisation can get behind and translate this into easy to digest, clear and simple visuals.

    These are more than just a set of pictures though, they are a great tool to help build the narrative around the need for change, support the communications messaging and storytelling and give colleagues and businesses something that they can easily understand.

    Louise Bull | Communications Director

  • Creating a rich picture for the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk

    Crackerjack is looking forward to beginning work tomorrow on creating a rich picture for the Office of the Police and Crime Commisioner for Norfolk (OPCCN).

    The rich picture will visualise the story of the OPCCN and the role it plays in the Norfolk community. The target audience for the rich picture is broad and includes the public and key stakeholders in the work of the OPCCN.

    We hope to share the final rich picture with you in a few weeks time.

    To find out how Crackerjack can help you visualise your ideas, please CONTACT US.

  • Graphic recording at the ‘Developing the Neurodevelopmental Pathway’ Council for Disabled Children #CouncilforDisabledChildren #NationalChildrensBureau #VisualThinking

    Really enjoyed graphic recording at the ‘Developing the Neurodevelopmental Pathway’ yesterday at St Helen’s RFC ground. Here’s a sneak peak at the graphic recording I produced on the iPad:

    The finalised graphic was shared as a PDF document and a time lapse video showing the graphic’s development during the event.

    To find out more, please CONTACT US.

  • “Welcome aboard” to our new clients: #Shell #Oracle #AECOM #TheFA #TheMediaGroup #NESTA

    We’ve been quiet on the social media front for the last few months, but we’ve certainly not been quiet on the work front!

    We are continuing to do a number pieces of work for Rolls-Royce including graphic recording and a number of rich picture projects to support various transformational work streams.

    We have also been lucky enough to work with a number of new clients on various visual thinking projects. “Welcome aboard” to:

    To find out more visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com

  • How a #graphicrecording created in 2015 continues to provide on-going value for the Institute of Quarrying (IQ) today…

    Pleased to be able to share this feedback from Sarah Fry of the Institute of Quarrying (IQ) about the long-term value she has received from a graphic recording Crackerjack created  back in 2015:

    “In 2015 when we were planning our conference, we wanted to do something different.  Something that delegates would remember and something that we could use after the delegates had all gone.  We found Crackerjack and loved Johns engaging style of capturing concepts and ideas in a visually engaging way and knew this would give us what we were looking for.

    During the conference John was an integral part of the event.  Live drawing became a feature of the conference and the resulting 3m x 1m landscape was a colourful representation of the key points made that industry should focus on.

    John Ashton graphic recording

    Afterwards with the landscape duly scanned into a digital image, we could easily share the conference outputs with delegates and our wider audiences.  It was immediately used on social and during 2016 was integrated into other marketing and communication activities.  Because the design was adaptable, we could use the graphic in full or in sections to focus on key points we wanted to talk about.

    Fast forward to the end of 2017.  We were having a tidy up in the office and found the original landscape drawing John created at our 2015 conference.  The digital version had worked hard for us but there was still something exciting about seeing the original artwork again.  Too good to simply discard and the concepts and issues captured are still relevant to the industry so we decided to get it framed to hang in our meeting room.

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    Due to its size we had to cut it into 3 different frames.  It certainly makes an impact!  The graphic is still a great talking point and a valuable device that helps us to engage our members and other visitors about what IQ is all about and how we support the quarrying industry.”

  • Great workshop design session with my @TP_plc client at @SaintsRugby ground #graphicfacilitation #engage

    Great workshop design session with my @TP_plc client at @SaintsRugby ground #graphicfacilitation #engage

    Great workshop design session with my @TP_plc (Travis Perkins) client in readiness for an event next month. We met at the @SaintsRugby ground in Northampton (the venue for the event) and worked together to create a visual and interactive session that will achieve my clients objectives during and after the event. Looking forward to facilitating the event! #graphicfacilitation #engage