Thomson Reuters Graduate Training Programme

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Thomson Reuters (TR) approached CreativeConneciton (CC) to create an away day activity that would train their graduate team to communicate using graphic facilitation and visuals as well as train each team to present visualised content. The challenge was that the graduates were all financial students who had recently completed their Financial Degrees. This group were the best in their class in terms of financial knowledge but when it came to creative thinking and drawing this was not an area the team felt confident with CreativeConnection drew ideas from the three groups and created Visual Minutes in each session. Following the sessions, we produced three Visual Summary Boards and supplied comprehensive typed notes on findings.

PROJECT CHALLENGE

Take a group of Finance Graduates and turn them into Visual Strategists and Creative Thinkers

• On-site data capture and monitoring
• deeper level interaction with employees
• High-level workshops and primary research
• Staff training through Metavisioning
• Deliver something new and unique internal change management processes
• Provide follow up materials with analysis results

WHAT WE DID

CC created a plan for the 2 day away day activities which allowed the group to progress through the basic stages of creative thinking. Providing intensive training in visual thinking at the start of the day allowed for the ‘creative barriers’ within this group to be removed. Each member of the team could see the logical thought process outlined by the CC training team and through this discipline were able to produce visual images and graphics which told their strategic story. Once the basic elements of creative thinking were introduced and the group felt more relaxed around the subject area, then came the hard work. We challenged each group to partake in an activity which would test their creative abilities and stretch their strategic thinking capabilities as well as improve their presentation skills. Each group was assigned a mentor to work with them in terms of ‘creative output, strategic thinking and skills in presenting. Each problem was associated to TR’s strategic needs allowing the group to learn about TR at the same time. As part of the training, the work was also presented to management within TR on the second day.

RESULT

The outputs were fantastic, although a ‘tough crowd’ to start with, these future Finance Directors were extremely creative and capable of taking on the challenge of visual communication. The core success factor for the CC training team was the fact that the groups really enjoyed the day(s) and felt that what they had learned was beneficial to their day to day tasks. It allowed them a new way of thinking and looking at their work as well as the ability to be more creative in a very typically non-creative discipline and environment.

PROJECT INFO

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CLIENTS

Thomson Reuters

CATEGORIES

Coaching, Training and Consutancy

COMPLETED

4 weeks

PROJECT BUDGETS

25000-30000