{"id":6099,"date":"2011-07-05T17:41:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T06:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2011-07-05T17:42:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T06:42:13","slug":"3-ways-to-make-your-org-charts-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/diagrams\/3-ways-to-make-your-org-charts-better\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways to Make your Org Charts better"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We did speak quite a bit about Org Charts a few posts back<\/a>, but in this post we thought of\u00a0letting you all in on 3 simple points <\/strong>that\u00a0can\u00a0to help make your Org Charts<\/a> more focused and clearer.<\/p>\n

1. Know the difference between Vertical and Horizontal<\/h3>\n

A vertical organizational structure denotes a strict top down or bottom up structure. Typically, a rigid top down vertical organizational structure has been favored for businesses and other\u00a0organization\u00a0types. On the other hand, a horizontal organizational structure means a flat or semi- flat organizational structure, like a meritocracy. While many do design their\u00a0Org Charts<\/a> with their direct reports being positioned horizontally, the right thing to do is to be aware of what your company structure is all about, i.e. vertical or horizontal before actually attempting an Org Chart. A vertical\u00a0Org Chart<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n

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2. Name It and then Put a Face to It<\/h3>\n

Including images of staff in your\u00a0Org Chart<\/a> can help humanize your company intranet site, assist new employees get better acquainted, and help virtual teams that are not in close proximity to get a sense of who their co-workers are. But you really need not limit yourself to just staff pictures. If you do have an Org Chart that is rather mundane and abstract, you could infuse some liveliness and color to it but plugging in some images<\/a> to highlight the type of operations as well. For instance, if you have a department called Division of Finance & Management, you could have a dollar sign image next to it. Check out how big a difference, having a picture and not having one makes below.<\/p>\n

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3. Go Unconventional with Org Charts<\/h3>\n

While Org Charts are conventionally used by HR to show the basic structure that is present in an organization, why not use such a diagram type to illustrate other types of information? For instance, you could use <\/span>Color <\/strong><\/span>to showcase the<\/span> <\/span>gender balance <\/span>or the different age groups\u00a0present in an organization. Don’t stop there though, you could even use a colorful Org Chart<\/a> to allocate staff members into different teams in the Sports\u00a0Committee, to assess the number of Senior Executives present as opposed to Junior Executives or even. There really is no limit as to what you can do with organigrams, all it takes is some intuition and creativity.<\/p>\n

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Stick to these 3 tips <\/strong>to make your designs clear<\/strong>, sharp<\/strong>, clutter-free<\/strong> and offer more information<\/strong>.\u00a0Try out these smart 3 tips <\/strong>on Creately for free<\/a> and see how creating Org Charts is as easy as peanuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We did speak quite a bit about Org Charts a few posts back, but in this post we thought of\u00a0letting you all in on 3 simple points that\u00a0can\u00a0to help make your Org Charts more focused and clearer. 1. Know the… Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40,681,50],"class_list":["post-6099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diagrams","tag-collaboration","tag-diagrams","tag-org-chart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6099"}],"version-history":[{"count":80,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6191,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions\/6191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}