Images of Organisations®

• Improve management & workplace communications
• Increase team and organisational performance
• Improve personal or team development planning
• Manage difficult conversations by approaching otherwise difficult topics in a sensitive manner
• Build skills in giving and receiving feedback through practice 
• Improve learning transfer by using as a memorable opening (ice-breaker), or closing exercise
• Reduce conflict within a team though improved dialogue

In April 2020 we included a digital image of all 16x cartoons to be used with remote learners / groups. This recognised the additional difficulties in building remote teams, and the need for them to be able to quickly build a sense of relatedness despite the challenges posed in communicating via online meeting software.
We further developed this into a fully functioning online version, now available here: Images of Organisations (online version) on the experientiallearningtools.com platform.

Some suggested uses of Images of Organisations: 

• At the start of a conference or training programme in which delegates do not know each other.

Asking delegates to choose an image that means something to them as individuals - this elicits far more information than simply asking them to state their name and job role as part of a 'creeping death' introduction!

• As a way of finding out about different perspectives amongst team members.

Are different individuals experiencing very different things at the same time? Is one person’s exciting change another’s nightmarish upheaval? Two people can look at the same image yet feel/imagine very different possibilities.

• As a lead-in to team action planning at the end of a team development programme.

The positive and negative nature of the images allows teams to choose an image to aspire to and an image to avoid.

• In exploring organisational values.

What do the individual images that team members have chosen say about their individual values? What is important to them about working in this team/on this project/as part of this organisation? Values are more than words, and the use of metaphor can begin to explore what values really mean to people, and deepen their shared understanding.

• In performance appraisal.

The positive and negative nature of the images allows managers and subordinates to explore images that might reflect times and activities when things were going well, as well as those when things were more difficult.

Delivery

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Returns

We provide a 12 month unconditional guarantee. If you have any problems with our materials, we will replace any defective parts, or you can return the product for a refund.