Big Pictures allow you to clearly communicate corporate strategies, vision, values, processes and even the story of your company.
You’ll have the most simple and powerful tool to align your team to reach your goals.
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Big Pictures (aka. Rich Pictures) are not only having vivid placards on your office wall or at the production site, but it is a transformational process, that creates clarity in mind, alignment in your team and a great support in overcoming stress in challenging times.
Big Pictures incorporate the essence of corporate stories and dreams – explored in engaging conversations and dialogue.
The creation of these “onepagers” speed up organisational learning, give valuable content to internal communication and has a great impact in boosting resilience.
While a “real time” Visual recording is rather a spontaneous piece, these Big Picture placards are made before or after the strategic event: that are workshops, or vision building seminars. Big Pictures are designed and honed on in several iterations. Primary visuals represent stories and meaning – built into the architecture of the one-pager, that represents the structure, the “chapters” of the current corporate story.
VISION
“There is no favourable wind for the sailor who doesn’t know where to go.”SENECA
- Does your company have a vision? Is it shaped together?
- One that is understood, wakening feelings and raises hope?
- Do You feel it strikes through, when communicated?
During vision building seminars we distill a picture and structure from the conversations. This is followed-up with consultations to shape the visual representation of the narrative. This Vision Big Picture is a unique management tool that fulfils the True North.
STRATEGY ROADMAP
- How shall we keep on track during the next strategic period?
- What tools do we use to set the right priorities in the every day’s struggle?
- What gives you clarity and guidance in a blink of an eye, during the day to day running of your division?
Strategy Big Pictures give tangible summary of the planned changes and growth program. The visual structure and its content provides clear priorities, steps to take, milestones, so building the future becomes a whole lot easier.
CORPORATE STORY
- How shall we know: “Yes, we can do it!”
- What supports our believe, to overcome the anxiety of the current overload of challenges?
Yes, it is remembering our past.
Visualising a company’s stories, ups and downs, projects, products, growths and mergers is a great milestone. It is often to crown a certain era, to reflect on what you’ve accomplished throughout years and decades. Having a spectacular Corporate story in your passage is a rock-solid statement of your strengths and honour. It helps to rise above worry, gossiping and disbelieve in the common future.
SYSTEM MAP
- How do you visualise the main processes of your value streams?
- What clear map you give to your newcomer engineers and workers to comprehend the plant, or service structure?
The ambiguity of your new workforce, sense of lost is a cost for the whole company. They pull down motivation. A clear visual representation of your value creation processes (should that be production or services) not only gives clarity to all new employee, but an important design process towards lean and agile structures and procedures.
VALUE MAP
- What makes us proud?
- What values do we represent in the daily business?
- Why do we love this plant, this company, these people?
It is not an easy task to communicate the company’s values in a tangible way while avoiding corporate bullshit. True values serves like solid fundamentum and light-tower in turbulent times for the people in all levels. A value map is guiding and confirmation in making stressful decisions.
Testimonial
„Just a big thank you to your company for really capturing the spirit of our workshop in your visuals. It really lifted the spirit (which was already high) in the room, reminded people about what we were doing caused them to have fun at the same time as it captured the content and the seriousness of what we were doing. We will be using the murals to continue to remind us of two great days in the office for hopefully a long time going forward.”
Ulrica Fearn
DIAGEO SSC – General Manager
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„It was a real experience to work together with Szilárd. His energetic and genuine presence, his attention and support given with open heart at any time was inviting and inspiring for the group and for us as well. His drawings has fulfilled the room and inspired the work. They helped to grasp and focused visualisation of the sensitive, easily stressful and overwhelming themes, they helped the team a lot. On one hand the visuals made the recalling of our work much easier, in other hands bringing back results, the structure and the supports further work. The added value of Szilárd came not only after the workshop: our clients had squarely turned to the visuals during the workshop and were continously feeding back their usefulness.”
Attila Bokor, Gergely Szentandrási
Senior Consultants
OD Partner Ltd.
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„Visuals provided the best of help when they were prepared before my very eyes. Throughout the diagnose the sensible areas became visible and they refused to be eliminated. Where it is more useful and provides much more than other methods is action plans and vision planning. I recommend it for managers who are at major cross-roads or who aim at changing a managerial or human behaviour and want to achieve better results.”
Klára Sziklai
HR Expert
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„Szilárd and I had the chance already twice to work together, and so I could ascertain his 100% professional preparedness and ability to handle emerging challenges while staying as flexible as he is. All participants watched with amazement as sentences of a speech turned into drawings, and not only due to their quality, but rather because we could clearly remember all details even months later.”
Dávid Konczos
Deputy of Chair (2017-2018) – AIESEC BCE
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„I’ve received the graphics made at our event. This is good, this technique! I’ve witnessed how the graphics took hold of the audience. They were watching, studying the illustrations, how all what they heard had turned into pictures, that is, how did the illustrator “translate”. We’ve been showing the drawings proudly since and tell about the “walking stories” heard there, as they appeared. I’d like insist on having these techniques at similar events!”
Dr. Péter Gelléri, President – Family Business Academy
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„The methodology of graphic facilitation was surprisingly fresh. With his experience in group dynamics, Szilárd grabbed the essence of the process. So, when we were focusing on the analysis of his drawings, it helped us to better understand what happened. You can use them immediately to interpret the process but you can also use them later on to remember the events. The rich colours and emotionalism of the drawings make it easy to recall memories. When I look at the drawings now, I can relive our shared moments.”
Dr. Gergely Németh, general manager
Corporate Values OD Consulting Ltd.
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„With the help of the illustrator even the dull meetings go multidimensional, the graphic visualisation generate new ideas and give momentum even to the most boring workshops.”
Szabolcs Sarkadi, K&H Bank – senior training consultant
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„Szilard was very quickly able to capture the discussions our groups were having and his interpretation of the conversation and the visual representation not only provided an aide memoire but also a starting place for new and further discussions. The graphics as an artefact are much richer than a series of notes and lend themselves to being easily used in other sessions.”
Melanie Currie
Nottingham Trent University
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„Grafacity is already returning ‘guest’ at the beginning of the year because their visuals are useful and work well in our company. On the one hand you can easily convey the gist of a meeting to those who did not participate with them and, on the other hand, it is a huge help for me, as a HR manager, with newcomers because the Big Pictures placed on the walls are an important part of the orientation process. It is not only a simple PPT we use to tell them what our values and strategies are, but they are put on the wall and people can see them every day.”
Lilla Benedek
ABESSE Informatics Consulting Ltd. – HR Manager
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„Thank you very much for your work and all the help and flexibility. It’s been really good to work with you and we would be happy to have something similar in the future. Many participants commented how much they were inspired by the visuals!”
Júlia Dudás, KPMG Hungary Ltd. – Marketing Specialist
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„The visual facilitation of the T-Systems merger process is an entirely positive memory for me because I haven’t yet seen a better solution for communicating the process and results of managers’ meetings to the organisation. People expect to learn what has happened and want to see what will bridge the gap between the current situation and the final outcome, the decisions. Triggering emotions, and spiced with humour, visuals communicate the process to the organisation in a lasting and transparent form. Only a few people have the ability to both understand the larger context and monitor the current events and be able to visualise everything immediately. Szilárd and his team succeeded in doing so. I believe in this method and I believe it is a good thing.”
Dr. László Eszes
T-Systems Ltd. – Deputy CEO
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„These Big Pictures are great represantations of the many achievemnts we have accomplished. Colleagues need these motivating moments: their efforts weren’t in vain. It is gratifying to look at the lovely drawings. Some visuals acts as filliping for managers and also a promotion for the department.”
Annamária Solteszne Pelles
Material Flow and Physical Logistics
Robert Bosch Electronics Ltd.
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„Our joint work with Szilárd was characterised by conscious planning, methodological richness and flexible adaptation to the situations. This kind of skill and knowledge as he can turn the world of thoughts into drawn structures, into the world of images, is of great value. I cast a glance at some of our mutual programs almost every day and got struck by new thoughts.”
Tamás Bertalan
Observans Ltd. – General Manager
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„The work that Grafacity provided not merely meant added value, but was rather a value created on its own; they succeeded in getting a rigid organizational structure moving, to encourage, to inspire.”
Kriszta Tölösi
Strategic HR-program Manager,
NKM Natural Gas Transporting Zrt.
Questions And Answers:
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1. Can you really do our Big Picture at the event?
Basically there are 2 ways of creating Big Pictures:
A) on the spot (at your event) or
B) in the studio, through a longer consultation process: either through analogous or digital production.
The short implementation version of Big Pictures are one of the most spectacular processes of our practices. In this case we are an invisible part of your strategic event, we listen carefully and take notes, and draw a lot.
Right after the “main process” is done (ie. keynote, strategic conversations, brainstormings, visioning sessions are over) we arrange our drafts and notes, pull the leadership team to make decisions on the (final) structure and the content (which element of the Big picture.
When major decisions are done our team starts the execution on the given size. We draft with pencils, draw and colour with markers while conducting 3-4 thorough consultations (iterations) and making the necessary amendments to reach the final version. In this case You’re going to have your Big Picture even before the event is closed.
This process fits the most to visions, strategies and value maps.
Usually these processes are supported with designing and printing templates to align team conversations, a few hours of preparations with us, and we’re often involved in the facilitation, as well.
2. We want to celebrate WITH it. Can you finish ahead of the event?
Of course, a Big Picture can be made before the show. It is not needed to involve dozens or hundreds of people. This is when the “traditional” graphic design process comes into play, sprinkled in with some visual interpretations and analogous drawing.
We consult your team to clarify your intentions, framework, planned functions of the Big Picture, gather necessary data from your environment, process all sent information and within the necessary amount of time we create your piece, to celebrate the strength, values and endurance of your team or company. We apply the general graphic design process: from drafts, ideas, to more elaborated marker drawings to fine polished digital, multi-layered pieces.
3. How long does it take to create our Big Picture?
If you have an event, where the content shall be explored, and we can stay with you (during the team building, for example) we do it overnight. You can present it and hang in your office the very next morning.
If it is created in the studio – depending on the urgency and the complexity: it might take from a week to several months. The optimal lead time is approximately 2-3 weeks to create an average Big Picture.
4. OK, I’ll have a large placard, what else?
Right before we start drawing – even in the first consultation we share a lot of ideas how these complex visuals can be shared and multiplied to support your goals and change process. The final versions can be modified, the new annual strategy can update the former version and so on.
The digital versions are often printed and placed at several places in different size at your site: offices, community areas, production line, meeting rooms etc, wherever decisions are made on a daily basis.
We have already designed and delivered several different adaptions of Big Pictures, like:
- Board Games,
- Templates
- “PaperPrezis”,
- Animated Digital presentations,
- Tee-mugs,
- Books,
- Gifts to colleagues
We can handle your item in the following ways:
- the digital design version with the printed final piece, or
- a high resolution JPG File besides your original, nicely wrapped paper piece.
- Printed physical objects with reused visual elements, as gifts, for example.
Bilingual Big Pictures take place in our practice, often for subsidiaries of multinational companies with Hungarian Locations, so regardless who is looking for guidance, what colour of skin and collar: they’ll find answer and guidance in these Precious Visuals.
5. Can you follow our Corporate Brand Book?
Yes. It is our passion to satisfy even the most fault-finder marketing expert of your team with caring about logos, typo & fonts, colour codes and all the little details. Neuland and the other vendors provide us with hundreds of markers in all colours of the palette.
Neither we nor our clients ever had any trouble with our partner from the printing house, who’s team delivers your piece in the best quality available in town.
6. Which is better: Handling it as a surprise or conducting a widely opened design process?
Well, sure, is it still a question?
I’m sure, You already have the answer!
The more colleagues can sound their voice and make even a little impact on the structure, or on the content or maybe just witnessing how others interpret their reality desires and pain-points into the strategic piece: this will create credit, commitment, motivations to keep on track and reach the set goals. Co-creation shapes corporate culture in the desired way, so it is not hungry to swallow up your strategy.
And YES, It can also be a surprise: if it is supposed to be gift.
Celebrating a success, a large transformation, a move or an anniversary – these can all be cases of having Big Pictures.