Through team trainings we learn constructive ways to both give and receive feedback; helping us develop valuable leadership skills.

How to add a bit of fun into team building activities so it isn't just work work work work...

Do you also find it difficult to bond with your team as work from home becomes our normality, and touching your colleague is restricted to

In Europe we see restrictions easing as the medical impact of the coronavirus on society is slowly lessening. Good news! Ink Strategy held o

In our latest remote facilitation training we generated some fun icebreakers! Great ways to make your remote meetings more engaging.

Occasionally, virtual meetings end up being even more effective than face-to-face meetings. Virtual conferences and user generated content are becoming more widely used than ever before. What does this mean? We are spending more and more time behind our cameras. So how do you make sure you look picture perfect for your video call? We pulled together a few of our best tips on how to face your online appearances. 1. Clean your lens. Firstly, and most importantly, clean your cam

Probably the most common topic of conversation at the moment is trying to make sense of the crisis and how businesses can keep going. At Ink Strategy it’s no different. Considering we run a consultancy, it’s of the utmost importance that we have an understanding of what our clients need during these challenging times. We therefore held a digital roundtable to invite everyone to share their views on the effects of COVID-19. Who was there: Frank Jansen - Commercieel Manager - B

Every gloomy situation has silver linings. This blog highlights a few of the positives in our daily news!

And suddenly we are all working from home and have no idea how we will ensure that this global crisis doesn't have a detrimental effect on our progress. Working remotely is, for most people, a once a week thing. Now we are all working remotely for an entire work week. That's a massive change and it's completely natural that you are struggling to make it work. It looks like we are going to be in this situation for a while. At Ink Strategy we work remotely regularly and hope to

Ink Strategy designed a remote working bingo card for your next team video meeting.

A wilderness journey to explore leadership by Martijn Schreuder Goedheijt.

What started as a joke has turned into a full-on competition to design Ink's 2019 t-shirt. The name of the game: design the 2019 Ink Strategy t-shirt The rules: submit a design in order to receive a shirt. The judging: our Instagram followers will be the judge and choose from the top three designs entered. The winner: will go down in t-shirt history. The winning design will be printed at the end of April on a high-quality cotton stretch t-shirt in all sizes for men and women.

There's a growing understanding that drawing is much more than an art form: it's a powerful tool for learning. We often think of drawing as something that takes innate talent, but this kind of thinking stems from our misclassification of drawing as, primarily, an art form rather than a tool for learning. Researchers, teachers, and artists are starting to see how drawing can positively impact a wide variety of skills and disciplines. Drawing is not an innate gift; rather, it c

Visual information has an enormous influence on us, but why? Why are we so hungry for visual input? Let’s take a look at some scientific evidence and explore seven reasons why we yearn for visual communication. 1) We are visually oriented. We descend from apes and, over time, have evolved to walk upright. The main advantage of this was that we could see farther than ever before. With this ability came further development, and now nearly half of our brain appears to be involve

If you hear people complain, see siloed work and your team isn't functioning like a well-oiled machine, you may need to review your vision. But what is a good vision and what is the value of having one? At Ink Strategy, we put our heads together to outline the seven key ingredients of a great vision. Whether you’re working on a project, running a change programme or you’re the CEO; a powerful, ambitious vision is key to aligning everyone in the same direction. If your vision

Ik bouw al ruim 2,5 jaar aan Ink Strategy - de tijd vliegt! Tegelijkertijd hebben we in die tijd ook al zoveel gave dingen gedaan. Aan het begin zag ik vooral de mooie visualisaties. Nu zie ik ook hoe het gezamenlijke ontwerpproces zoveel onderling begrip, snelheid en enthousiasme brengt. De combinatie van samen een visie bepalen en ontwerpen, storytelling en werken met teamdynamiek om mensen in beweging te krijgen, geeft me veel energie. De theorie en oefeningen die ik bij #

In the past months Ink Strategy has been working with KLM Air France to bring innovation into the core of their business. We facilitated a week long team workshop to introduce design thinking as a tool to improve customer centric innovation. During the intensive programme we used unconventional research methods, customer journey mapping tools and the business model canvas to find new innovative approaches to their business. Check out our short wrap up video.

A clear strategy is an important starting point for any organisation, especially at the beginning of the year. Generally, management all get a chance to read and edit a strategic document, to fill in the gaps and add missing bits and pieces. The corporate strategy monster starts to grow into a 43 page document. Unfortunately no one will read a 43 page document. Your goal as management is not to get a strategy 100% correct but to get everyone 100% engaged and that is where sto

Organisational processes can be far too complex. By not understanding or engaging with all of the steps, employees can often create their own way of executing them, creating double or unnecessary work in the process. Visual thinking can reduce this complexity, creating greater employee engagement. Your entire company can gain a better insight into how a process works and can ask fundamental questions throughout the design process and identify themselves easily within the visu

Yesterday, we had the honour of participating in and facilitating the 6th Ignite conference hosted by Spark in support of entrepreneurship for refugees. The theme was ‘New stories: Rebuilding futures.’ During the day we asked the audience, consisting of NGOs, refugees, corporate companies and governmental institutions to share their success stories. We asked how they reached their business dreams or supported refugees in reaching theirs? In response we heard amazing stories f