Visual metaphors that are too close to what your business actually does can trigger conversations that stall. For example, if you are an airline, using air travel metaphors and images…
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Throwing back the duvet: Engaging your entire workforce with your purpose and strategy As a father, I clearly remember the experience of waking up in the morning to my young…
To truly test how well you can articulate your company or functional strategy, try explaining it to your partner, or a loved one, over dinner. See if you can get…
Five steps to align your workforce and deliver success Imagine you stopped any one of your employees, anywhere in your organisation, at any time. Then imagine you asked them to…
How to paint a picture of future success for your organisation and get your people telling stories about how their hard work makes a difference. Experience tells us that staff…
For your organisation to execute its strategy, employees need a clear destination and a route map to follow. When facilitating conferences, I sometimes start with an icebreaker called ‘Point North’….
More than a helicopter view shows how to explain business strategies to employees in-flight. Articulating complex business strategies to staff in a way that inspires them to take the right…
When coming up with a metaphor to get people talking about the big picture for your organisation, make sure it’s cynic-proof so it doesn’t trigger the wrong kind of storytelling….
When employees are asked to change to help the business meet future challenges, they go through a change curve: denial, resistance, exploration and then commitment. To help people along, you…
How to bring your vision or strategy to life with Big Picture communication, so your people get it, remember it, believe in it – and know what they need to…
More than 200 senior managers from HARTMANN have mapped out their plans for the years ahead at an event in Germany produced with Axiom’s help. Working alongside local contractors, we…
A global organisation formed from in-house and outsourced providers is finding a sense of common purpose and clear direction thanks to a Big Picture strategy communication designed and delivered with…
