Challenge
Jethro Bos, director of MBO Zadkine Startcollege, came to us with the following challenge: how to create engagement and enthousiasm for long term strategy goals, in a team with 60 educational professionals? We advised him to use the benefits of visualising. Not only for a visual end result, but mainly for the developing process.
Recently three departments merged together, resulting in a lot of changes for the teaching staff. The different teams had different cultures and values. Their main question was: how do we find a common ground to build a shared vision?
My collegue board members are impressed of how strategy, tactics and operations were made visual in a coherent way.
Jethro Bos director Zadkine Startcollege
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Solution
Together with the client we designed and facilitated a two-day program. We mapped out the common grounds, visualised the motivations of the team members and found shared building blocks for a shared vision for the future. During the program, the results were visualised through live drawing. Drawings help to find and summarize the key problems and goals. Defining a key message through visuals make abstract themes more vivid and easy to grasp for all stakeholders.
A final delivery was an online interactive, based on the live drawings during earlier sessions. The visualisation we made together in co-creation during the two day strategy sprint is meant for multiple years, and functions as a guide for all yearly schoolplans and strategic choices. “It is recognizable for all employees and grabs the key message of our change,” tells Jethro.
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Deliverables
The products of the strategy sprint are summarised into an interactive document and a large visual. The online document contains all topics, themes and ambitions both seperately and as a whole. The visual can be find online, but is also put on the wall of the school as a constant reminder for everyone.
The strategic visual will be a continuous reminder, also when daily busy life kicks in. The participants of the strategy sprint are now co-owner of the strategy and therefore actively propagating their plans.
Deliverables
- facilitation and design of strategy development sessions
- strategic visualisation
- interactive schoolplan
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Visualisation of our strategy helps us to make coming years' decisions: the visual creates genuine impact!
Jethro Bos director Zadkine Startcollege
Contact
Your strategy development will also benefit from visualisation!
Contact Michelle, our visual strategist, to find our more.
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