Creative Connection

‘The art of listening

and visual communication’ w: CreativeConnection.co.uk e: info@CreativeConnection.co.uk t: +44 01239 851 892 / +44 0778 7744 297 London • Toronto • Madrid • Dubai

CONTENTS

3 CreativeConnection 4 Visual Minutes 5 Corporate Animation 6 VISUAL MINUTES – Training & Workshops 7 Facilitation & Team Coaching 8 The ‘School of unknowing’ & ‘the 11th hour’ 9 the gallery 10 testimonials

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CREATIVECONNECTION WHO CreativeConnection (CC) is a team of Artists and Facilitators who use key listening and illustration skills to enhance the creativity and communication of its clients.

WHAT Capture the key points and themes in such settings as conferences, presentations and meetings. The CC team will transform ideas into compelling images and text to help people engage more fully with the key themes and ideas.

• Animations: Animation is very effective as a branding, viral or internal marketing tool.

The CC team work in a variety of styles.

• Facilitation & Coaching: With over 40 years facilitation experience, CC work with individuals and teams of all sizes and levels to increase productivity and performance both professionally and personally.

• V isual Minute Training and Workshops: Learning the Art of Listening and Visual Communication helps to improve creative and innovative thinking. CC run training and workshops for groups and individuals.

• CC Events: The ‘School of Unknowing’ and the ‘11th Hour Meetings’ are two of our annual events – exclusive to CC clients and friends of CC clients.

WHERE CC’s founding partners and main offices are based in London and Toronto, with smaller offices in Madrid and Dubai. CC’s global teams speak a large array of languages enabling CC to produce work all over the world and in many languages.

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VISUAL MINUTES Visual Minutes are a tool to help capture content, themes, ideas and feedback in a creative and informative way. CC Visual Minutes can be done in different ways: from ‘fly-on-the-wall’ Keynote Listening, capturing speaker and participant content, through to fully Interactive Murals.

The CC teams can also illustrate various forms of documentation.

Our Tool Box:

Possible product formats

• For Events: Keynote Listening, PowerPaint, Insightful Portraits, Interactive Wallpaper, Exhibition Stand enhancement.

We start with a blank canvas and produce a picture created from the content spoken by speakers, delegates and visitors. We also cater for weddings and birthdays – to capture the essence of the day or memories of the ones you love.

• Tender and Pitch enhancement: Enhancing your client meetings with an Artist.

• Document and strategy simplification: Create something unique for your next meeting, presentation or internal communication.

• Postcards, Posters, Promotional Merchandise, Digital Photos, Rich Pictures, Infographics and Stop Frame animation.

See our team in action at The South Bank Centre, London

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CORPORATE ANIMATION

Our animation teams manage the complete process of creating animations from script and storyboard development to final edit. CC animations have been used as external and internal marketing communication tools as well as testimonial enhancements.

Our Animation tool box: • H and Drawn / Painted: filmed live and is a piece of art in-itself. The use of many colours and water really make these stand out.

• White Board / RSA style: hand drawn on whiteboard or paper. The colours used can be matched to your brand.

• Tablet Technology: This style of animation is created using tablet technology for clean lines and more special effects.

• Stop Frame and Videography: This type of animation is used to record events and live situations.

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VISUAL MINUTES – TRAINING & WORKSHOPS Where words can fail us, listening for and visualising key ideas, themes and narratives can release creativity in a room, helping a group to focus on what is really important and making complex ideas and situations easier to engage with.

As people see their speech recorded they feel valued and encouraged to contribute further.

Emerging imagery allows a group to draw comparisons, make connections and build new and shared mind maps.

The practice of visualisation can be used to improve teamwork, communication and decision making, to plan work and build engagement.

‘Put down that Smartphone; pick up that crayon. Employees at a range of businesses are being encouraged by their companies to doodle their ideas and draw diagrams to explain complicated concepts to colleagues. Companies such as Facebook Inc. are incorporating whiteboards, chalkboards and writable glass on all sorts of surfaces to spark creativity. More and more companies are holding training sessions to teach employees the basics of what’s known as visual note taking.’

WSJ.com

CC offers a range of training courses and workshops in the Art of Listening and Visualisation. Join us for one or more of the following: Individual Tuition: 3 personal training sessions for intensive learning £1500 Group Tuition: 2 days of workshops (Fledgling and Flyer levels). Only 16 student capacity so book early. Join one or other, or both Fledgling and Flyer workshops - contact CC team today to find the next workshop available in your area.

Fledgling £350 / Flyer £500 / Both workshops £750 Corporate Group Tuition: Training sessions tailored to your team needs. Prices start from £4000pd for groups of up to 25 people Online Distance Learning: A self-paced video e-learning course. Prices start at £350 Each course is offered in a range of languages.

The price includes all materials and a Visual Minutes starter kit* *Excludes the Online distance course

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FACILITATION & TEAM COACHING

All our facilitators are trained Visual Minute Artists. Our methods are unique to CC and centre around Transformative Narrative Skills

Our Facilitation / Coaching: • E xecutive Coaching: One to one sessions to work through a key project or simply to develop individuals into stronger leaders and managers.

• Team Coaching and Development: Working with teams to help enhance performance, collaboration and building individual confidence.

• Group Facilitation: Our facilitators can help large or small groups work through hard strategic decisions or turbulent planning processes.

• E vent / Conference Facilitation: Our facilitators have extensive experience facilitating conferences and events with a particular passion for enabling audience participation.

• Stakeholder Relationship Management Programs: Our team offer special coaching programs to help enhance the relationships companies have with internal and external stakeholders.

• Transformative Narrative: Using the power of The Narrative to enhance traditional business strategy.

• Team Reflection and Away Days: Our facilitators offer fun and productive activities for team reflection and review away days.

Methods: Our methods of facilitation are customised to our clients’ needs. We tend not to use any off-the-shelf models or standard exercises but design processes based the session objectives.

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THE ‘SCHOOL OF UNKNOWING’ & ‘THE 11TH HOUR’ In our work we meet many people with amazing stories to tell, extraordinary experiences, dreams and interesting, incisive questions to share. We run several events each year to see what happens when you gather these people in one place.

Our Events: • T he School of Unknowing: is an adventurous, inward bound programme designed to challenge the validity of strongly held beliefs, perceptions, and accepted wisdom. Each programme is unique because participants generate their own set of challenges and questions. Usually focussed on the art of personal and organisational change, a School of Unknowing develops imagination, initiative, creativity and courage. Topics which have been covered in previous schools are: > Leadership ,Teamwork, Quality, Truth Trust and Teamwork, Customer Relations, Supplier Relations, Internal Communication, Personal and Organisational Transformation, Communication and Culture Change, Effective Meetings, The Art of Change, Creativity and Vitality of working relationships, Soul and Authentic Corporate Resilience

• The 11th Hour Meetings: are collaborative pop-up think-tanks that aims to approach the unprecedented and potentially catastrophic complexity of current situations from a different direction. At the point where hope evaporates, we explore unease and yearning, rather than ideas or initiatives, imagination driven dreaming rather than evidence based planning. Where possible we invite people who hold very different philosophical positions and strategic approaches. We seek intuitive resilient souls rather than brilliant analytical minds and place greater value on identifying the authentic questions rather than the concluding answers.

If you would like to find out more or be involved in these events please contact us.

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THE GALLERY

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TESTIMONIALS VISUAL MINUTES “ Visitor numbers for the show were in line with previous years but the Capita stand saw a 200% increase in visitor activity with many individuals returning many times during the day to check on the artists progress . From my point of view we have had much better, deeper dialogue this year than in previous years, a lot of which has validated our thoughts on how to take the technology behind Public Safety to a new level, but here and now, it’s the CreativeConnection team who have made the difference to BAPCO 2012.”

David White, Marketing Manager, Capita “Marcel and Gordon were just the perfect artists to have with us for the first Hereford Youth Forum.

They were highly professional and accomplished at capturing the essence of what was taking place and creating a skilled artistic impression.

Both of them are great with the young people and with the ‘influential’ guests (MP, Mayor, Council Leader and other Councillors + business people). Thanks once again, to both of them and CreativeConnection!”

Romy Shovelton, Business Consultant

ANIMATIONS “The animations were really well received and we have had many compliments and supportive comments about them. They have also been a great success as part of our internal communications program as we can see visible results in the communication of the message with lots of interest generated in the topic.” The British Council “ It’s been a real pleasure to work with you.

Very pleased with the outcome.”

Tony Wiemer, Budd

FACILITATION / TEAM COACHING “I hired CreativeConnection to help my team become more confident and more focused in achieving our goals. There were issues Tim and the team found that we did not even know about as Tim has a great method for uncovering the ‘elephant under the table’ and then helping us to find our own solutions to resolve those problems.

Our team is now the number one performing team in the company.” Greeneking

TRAINING / WORKSHOPS “After the workshop, I put my learning to the test and created a presentation in a Visual Minute format. I then presented this to the executives of the company. It was received really well and was much better than a standard PowerPoint presentation. I would not call myself an ‘excellent artist, but I can now think visually and see elements much more clearly when I draw them out” Dave Snow, Exec Manager technology division “We hired CC to help train our HR group. The group was a mix of the whole team including senior managers. The objective was to ensure that at the end of the session each member was able to create a diagram or story with images to aid them in their communication. Since the training session the team is really getting on well and it’s helped to make our meetings within the team and outside the team so much more interesting! I believe other departments are also now booked on the sessions with CreativeConnection. The results are fantastic the team is thinking and looking at things differently now and the communication between them has improved.”

Sue Dempsey, HR Manager

SPECIAL EVENTS “The atmosphere at this event was exhilarating.

I came out of The School Of Unknowing and felt like I know it all! The reflection tools really help to clarify situations and has really helped me to improve myself and my business. I also met some amazing people and made some great friends and contacts. Can’t wait for the next one!”

Paul Stankeris, Digital Applications

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