Why use Cartoons in the Workplace

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Using Cartoons in the Workplace
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Why use Cartoons in the Workplace?

• variety
• use of humour
• targets different ways in which people learn
• visual memory cue
• makes message unforgettable
• audience identifies with the message

Note The cartoon MUST be relevant to the
subject matter. You need to be aware that your
attempt at humour is appropriate to your audience
and does not discriminate.
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What if I dont have excellent drawing skills?
You dont need them! Your picture only needs
to convey your idea.
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Creating a Cartoon

• The process is similar to Project Management
  philosophies
• You have an idea
• You create you plan
• How will you present it?
• What framework will you use?
• What will the picture display?
• Will your message be subtle or
  sledgehammer-like?
• You create a draft
• Rework your draft
• Tidy
• Complete

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Using Cartoons in the Workplace an example
New email policies were implemented at a
previous employer. The initial response from the
employees was that the policies were very strict,
harsh, a restriction of civil liberties. The
guidelines for the use of email were much tighter
than they had been and those caught breaching the
policies were severely reprimanded. Management
knew the workforce would be unhappy, and in an
attempt to make light of the situation and show
that they too understood and empathized with the
workforce, a cartoon was suggested to create a
connection between management and the employees.
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Example Brainstorming Session

• The email policies are now much more strict, what
  else is strict?
• The law
• Policemen
• Courts
• What happens when people break strict laws? The
  go to jail
• Ah HA!
• And the following cartoon was created from this
  idea

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Example Finished Cartoon
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Your task

• The OHS department are releasing a email
  communication to send out to the rest f the
  business and want to attach a cartoon to break
  the seriousness of the message. It is your job
  (in small groups) to create a cartoon to be
  attached with the communication.
• Idea starters.
• What is OH S?
• What do they do?
• What would be the opposite of what they do and
  how could you do a cartoon that would have an OH
  S spin?
• (Slipping/falling / dropping things on yourself
  for comedic purposes is always funny, see the
  Coyote and Road Runner as examples)
• Are there any plays-on-words in OH S that you
  could use?
• (e.g. bear / bare you could have a grizzly bear
  carrying a pot of acid and the OHS worker scolds
  him for carrying the liquid with his bear
  hands)