Effectiveness of infographic posters

  • Imogen Greensill
Infographic posters are posters which contain information as well as imagery to inform others quickly about certain topics or situations. In my infographic poster, I have studied the topic of team management and leadership, highlighting key aspects of ways to be a good team leader and how to work well in a team. All these things are short and snappy and get the key aspects across quickly. When we went to Drumhill on a team building day, I saw many of these key words in action and seeing how they took place on the day confirmed they are needed for a good team. One of these things were communication. This was key as we would not be able to work successfully together as team if we did not communicate. This was vital when completing all tasks, such as orienteering (having to talk to one another about where we needed to go next and what things we had to look out for), the plank of wood task (having to discuss who would switch places first in order to ensure that no one would fall off), wooden group ski (in order to move forwards, backwards, diagonal or sideways on the skis, communication was the only thing that mattered. Because there were 5 people to each ski, if one person was out of time or did not communicate fully with the other members of the group, then the ski would not be moved forward. The point of this exercise was to communicate with each other in order to complete the set course in a time quicker than the other team. This aspect of rivalry brought a more competitive side to both teams and a lot of the time, the other team would go out of time with one another because they are trying to rush to get there first. When you communicated with each other, the task became easier as no one was out of time and it was completed in a better manor.). Another word that was used to describe a good team leader was cooperation. Working together as a team would outweigh the risk of not completing the set task, and therefore delaying the end point to the project. If a team cannot work together efficiently, there must be a problem somewhere down the line, perhaps with the individuals’/team members or the manager him/herself. In certain parts of a good team, you have to work individually to make sure an overall project has an input from all members to create the end point equally. In my poster, if I had more time, I would have abbreviated what was said above about Drumhill in order to support my points about team management.

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