We facilitated a programme review as a large graphic (1.5m x 5m). This was reproduced onto boards and taken on tour round the divisions.

“I never thought I was creative, but this session has shown me that I am creative. Now no-one could convince me otherwise!”

“Put us in a strong position to move ahead with more radical ideas”

We facilitated a graphic session to explore the existing process. For the first time people could see the bigger picture and the inconsistencies between their different areas.

At a subsequent session we worked with the same group to map out a revised process which has now been implemented consistently across the organisation.

“Really enjoyable and thought provoking techniques that will help your organisation understand the real issues within the business and then how to tackle them”

How to get away from the usual to create an impactful and inspirational launch event that engages the organisation and has people buzzing?

We designed an event that turned the usual launch on its head - instead of starting with an overview we had people straight into interactive sessions discovering for themselves. They then created the overview as an information fair, which was visited by their colleagues.

“Inspiring. Outstanding use of my time.”

“Really creative way of communicating the information, much better than a long series of presentations.”

“I bet you don’t normally get such fantastic feedback from events!”

We ran a graphical facilitation session with the team to capture all the services they offer in one big picture. This was then developed into the Innovation Wheel and used to create a marketing flyer.

The team were surprised themselves at how many different services they offered - a good example of how graphic sessions draw out and pull together all the parts of a larger picture that no one individual knows.

“With the help of The Creativity Cooker, the team developed a new marketing piece, The Innovation Wheel, that identified the services we offer, was focussed on the needs of our customers and enabled our customers to quickly identify where we could help. Within a week of use, we received 84 requests from local businesses for further information - an instant return on our investment!”

We ran a one-day, off-site Introduction to Creative Thinking session with the team. The focus was on developing new behaviours and the creative exercises were all based on non-work related topics to encourage co-operation and constructive thinking.

Sitting on the floor is a good way of getting over the message that something different is happening.

“I would also like to again thank you for a most engaging session.

Having attended many such sessions over the years I can honestly say I struggle to recall one where the level of engagement was so high from everyone.

We hope that this session was the catalyst to finally create a change in how we resolve the issues both present and ahead.”

We ran a one-day, off-site, idea-generation workshop with the team. As part of the session we broadened the brief to include thinking about how their organisation might restructure itself to offer different services.

To get the team thinking of structural changes we had them perform an alien autopsy - they got to make whatever changes they liked to a body before asking themselves what this would mean if transferred to their own organisation.

“ It was good fun and productive too.”

“We generated a lot of ideas – including some unexpected ones – which we are now taking forward. We will also be able to use the Creativity Engine techniques again and again.”