The caricature/cartoon workshop

2 - 6 hours

The success and efficiency of a business can depend on its attention to detail. Caricaturing is about observing detail and transferring it accurately to the sketch. This workshop encourages focused creativity by outlining the basics of cartoon sketching and demonstrating the techniques of caricaturing. Participants can then attempt to caricature each other. Confidence is boosted by developing this new skill and could eventually help enliven many company reports!

Picturing your thoughts

2 - 6 hours

A picture says a thousand words. Corporate or company messages are more powerful when conceptualized into an image whether they come from the management or the staff. This graphic facilitation is particularly effective when there are live discussions during summit meetings or brainstorming sessions - concepts and ideas are supplied by the people in the groups then visualized immediately by the artist and displayed around the room. Other artists can be recruited for multiple groups. Go the extra mile with your people and make your messages 'sticky'.

4 - 6 hours

Ivor facilitates an 'out of the box' thinking course using comedy and cartoons to explore the question is innovation a joke? This is a new and fun way to help your people come up with innovative ideas. The aim of the course is to furnish the participant with idea generating tools they will find enjoyable to use and therefore continue to use in their working environment. Comedy is a perfect 'wrapper' that disguises the 'work' aspect of the process with something which looks like (and is) fun.

The storyboard exercise

1 - 2 hours

This is an excellent exercise for management teams as it is all about brainstorming, communication, negotiation, planning, delegation and action. Participants group into teams and organise the production of a storyboard which needs to explain how a particular event happened; e.g. how the caterpillar crossed the stream and turned into a butterfly. Company themes can be incorporated along with personnel to maximise ownership of the event. An artist will be on hand to help out with difficult to draw objects.

The after dinner or keynote speaker presentation

15 - 45 minutes

The presentation is entitled Assume nothing and aptly lives up to its name. Surprises and jokes demonstrate how we make the most basic assumptions about the simplest things, assumptions which eventually trick or entrap us. By revealing how the mind is fooled by these assumptions Ivor explains how to challenge them and thus open up a whole new world of possibilities from the same set of circumstances.

A poweful message is delivered by the use of memorable stories which everyone can identify with and ultimately act upon.