Previously we’ve explored how to make it easier to predict the future in business, and how vision can be a powerful tool in planning for business success. In the final…
Scenario planning for a flexible future strategy
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The power of vision in planning for business success
In the last blog we spoke about the tendency to stay indecisive, while we wait for more certainty around us. But such certainty may not come, or may come too…
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Business Planning for SMEs
A visual approach to business planning for SMEs can deliver a prioritised and focussed business plan that engages the workforce in delivering it. SME’s ranging from a “one-man band” to a…
Creating Competitive Advantage
In today’s highly competitive commercial world, creating competitive advantage is essential. No longer is it just having the USP, process efficiency or even information that will achieve competitive advantage. Now…
Facilitating High Performing Project Team
Facilitating high performing project team simply gets things done. Well, not so simple actually. A high performing project team is more likely to happen by design and intervention. What some may…
Developing a Creative Curriculum
Developing a creative curriculum says some very important things about a school. How the community, children and adults alike, articulate their ideas about learning and teaching, and how they see…
MagPics – Stimulus Images
A recent development of our hexagonal MagNotes these photo magnets, called MagPics are designed as stimulus images to aid collaborative meetings and sessions by provoking ideas and discussions within the…
Linking Thinking
Our education consultant Steve Padget has been busy working in schools with LogoVisual Thinking (LVT) as well as demonstrating the methodology at two recent conferences. In October, he attended the…
Improving writing with LVT
Karen Lintin, Feltham Hill Junior School, Hounslow shares her action research project undertaken Easter term 2006. Children, particularly boys in my class were under-achieving in writing. They did not enjoy…
Comparative Study part 8 – Dialogue
Dialogue is the most open-ended of the methods under consideration [in the comparative study as a whole]. There is no leader, no set process, no theme or agenda and no…
Thinking about the how?
Steve Padget explains why LogoVisual Thinking Kits offer a dynamic medium thought in English at Key Stage 3. ‘Theyﾒre very strong on the what, but not so clear on the…
Comparative Study part 7 – Systematics
The discipline of systematics as a method of thinking was developed by the philosopher and educationalist John Bennett about fifty years ago. It is the study of multi-term systems, which…
What does thinking look like?
What does thinking look like? Steve Padget looks at how logovisual thinking can stimulate lessons and increase understanding through high quality thinking and talking. “Just as you cannot be a…
Comparative Study part 4 – Cynefin
Cynefin is a Welsh word only roughly to be translated as place. It is used by David Snowden and associates to signify social complexity in general and contextual complexity in…
Thinking Schools, Thinking Classrooms
John McKellar shares something of his experience, siting LVT as instrumental, in developing a thinking and learning culture in Primary Schools. Things change only slowly in education and some say…
Comparative Study part 6 – Constellations
The method of Constellations (cf. The Nowhere Foundation) derives from the work of Bert Hellinger on family systems. Constellations appears in our comparative grid as ﾑinnovation in natural systems, associated…
Using LVT with teachers in training
Using LVT with teachers in training has proven very valuable. The need to nurture an understanding of the relationship between words, thoughts and learning is critical as they acquire the…
Enquiry into Practice Case Study
Teacher, Jo Little from St Paulﾒs C of E Primary, Brentford, presents her action research on using LogoVisual Thinking across the curriculum: From the spoken to the written word. “It…
Comparative Study part 5 – TRIZ
There are some features of TRIZ that shed light on LVT, in particular the concept of Ideality. One of the main things to note is that the more psychological and…
LVT at Berkeley Primary School
Kindly submitted by Nadine Currey, Berkeley Primary School, Hounslow The children in year five at Berkeley have been using the LogoVisual Thinking Skills (LVT) in a variety of ways in…
Developing Thinking Skills through Drama
Confronted with a range of thinking skills approaches and resources, John McKellar opted for a combination of drama and Logovisual Thinking. to great effect. “As teachers we appreciate the importance…
Comparative Study part 3 – Democs
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) has produced a game to instruct in and enhance democratic process. The game is a method of informed discussion. It uses prepared material put onto…
Rainbow Island: an enrichment collaboration
Dan Varney describes Rainbow Island, a geography simulation project in Hounslow that has evolved to stretch and challenge subject knowledge, thinking, learning and life skills. The focus is on extending…
Learning to learn with Logovisual Technology
With teachers eager to cater for students with different learning styles, the search is on for practical ways to include visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learners in lesson activities. Brin Best,…
Comparative Study part 2 – Goldratt
In this part, we take a look at Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints. The idea of a critical constraint is that in any knowable process, there will be one (or only…
How can we use LVT for Assessing Science?
Sara Cinamon, Primary Science Consultant for G&T, CEA@Islington shares her conclusions from looking at How LVT can be used effectively in teaching science in Islington Primary Schools. She provides ideas…
Best Practice With LVT – December 2012
A small group of Practitioners convened at Logovisual offices in Skipton, Yorkshire for this Best Practice event which took the usual format, with a mix of hands-on and presentation contributions…
Comparative Study part 1 – LVT
THE ECOLOGICAL PLACE OF LVT IN A NETWORK OF METHODS A comparative study by Anthony Blake, Director of Research, CMC Eight methods are compared with Logovisual Technology to elicit common…
LVT at St. Andrew’s Islington
Anna Lee, Leading Teacher for G&T Education, describes how the use of LVT at St Andrews primary School in Islington has developed and captured the imagination of pupils and adults…
Report on Best Practice with LVT, 2 Dec ’09
A small group of Practitioners convened at High Trenhouse, Yorkshire for this Best Practice event which took the usual format, with a mix of hands-on and presentation contributions from all…
Malhamdale community enterprise initiative
This report summarises proceedings at a community event that sixty people attended for a 2ﾽ hour workshop at Kirkby Malham on the evening of 18 November 2002. The purpose of…
Have you caught the visual bug?
In his article for the TES (Times Education Suplement), Freelance journalist ROBERT BULLARD describes how LogoVisual Thinking brings creativity into learning in a Stoke school, using LVT for structured writing…
Report on Best Practice with LVT, 7 May ’09
A small Practitioners group was assembled, at relatively short notice, for a hybrid event mainly introducing elements of new content for the Better Thinking for Better Results course. The reasoning…
Art and the Outdoors – Positive About Young People
Using LVT to engage the various facilitators in planning and review, Camille Archer outlines the objectives and outcomes of this summer arts workshop project, engaging young people in a variety…
LogoVisual Thinking -why is it successful?
Brin Best reviews how teachers have articulated the value of LogoVisual Thinking in their classrooms, links their enthusiasm to some major theories from the world of education psychology and considers…
SIGNIFICANT LINKS OF LOGO VISUAL THINKING (LVT)
Go to the LVT Compendium (click here) This Compendium places LVT in context by documenting its links and fit with other theories and methods relevant to the understanding and facilitation…
LVT in PLTS with trainee teachers
The current Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills Framework is one of the building blocks of the Big Picture of the curriculum. It makes clear the necessity for teachers in all…
Thinking Together
This paper has been written with the collaboration of the Centre for Management Creativity and its CEO John Varney, as a contribution to the development of LVT. I explore the…
Assessment for Learning – making students the examiners
Assessment for Learning is one of the Department for Education’s main focus areas for schools to take forward in the drive to raise standards. New and innovative ways of tackling…
Report on Best Practice with LVT, 3 Dec ’08
11 participants braved winter conditions to rendezvous in the local village and get ﾑup-lifted to High Trenhouse for this event. Meeting up in an icy car park and sharing the…
Improving attendance by making meaning
Absenteeism is a difficult issue to get a grasp of. Its causes are often complex and inscrutable.With ever increasing pressure to achieve more with less, it is tempting to think…
Report on Best Practice with LVT, 2 April 2008
Ten participants came from the worlds of Primary and Gifted and Talented education, public and private sectors organisations, independent consulting and philosophical enquiry. This brief report summarises proceedings and links…
Transforming Teaching and Learning with LogoVisual Thinking
This article outlines an approach to teaching and learning called LogoVisual Thinking (LVT), which was first introduced into schools in 2000. Authors Brin Best and Dan Varney believe that the…
Comparative Study – Generic Themes Summary
In this series Anthony Blake has positioned eight disciplines in their relationship to LVT. In making comparisons we come to see different methods as alternative paths up the same mountain,…
Structured Writing: Breaking the mould
Writing frames undoubtedly have their uses, but they can also limit the creative talents of the more able. Freeing up pupils to generate their own ideas and apply them using…
Comparative Study part 9 – Social Dreaming
The Social Dreaming Matrix was developed by Gordon Lawrence. He discovered ﾖ or rediscovered ﾖ that dreams could be dealt with as a source of information on the collective situation…
What is your ideal workplace?
In September 2012 Accredited LVT Practitioner Peter Cruikshanks ran a short session to demonstrate the use of the Logovisual methodﾠat Steelcase Solutions in Leeds.Participants explored the question “What is your…
Strategic Vision LVT case study
This case study describes the process of using LVT method to build an aspirational vision of the future as the guiding imputus for pragmatic and focused business planning. The pragmatic…
Website Design – The process toolbox
Simon Collison shares the third of several excerpts from his presentation at the @media web design conference.ﾠ In the context of an overall approach to web design he describes using…
Creating a Purpose Statement
Here’s an outline of an excellent process for engaging a group of people in defining their common purpose. What it will ensure is that the group have been engaged in…
Using LVT to create a policy document
At the Best Practice with LVT event in December, Jonathan Williams shared the outputs from a session aimed at scoping a Project knowledge sharing policy document. Through the rigour in…
Thinking about leadership with doctors
At the Best Practice with LVT event in December, LVT Practitioner Mike Cambray led a hands-on session to road test an exercise he intended to incorporate into a leadership programme…
Qualities of Entrepreneurs
At the Best Practice with LVT event in December, Christine Bell shared the outputs of an informal meeting she had in a cafe with a couple of clients, exploring a…
Understanding Leadership with LogoVisual Thinking
Working in nine sub-groups for a little over an hour, people generated their own responses to the question, “What makes for successful leadership in the public sector?” Northern Leadership Academy…
Leading Minds
John Varney introduces LogoVisual Thinking (LVT), a creative methodology that develops the thinking skills of managers. “Managers strive to out-think their competitors, to innovate ahead of the field and to…