What does your home video link background say about you? When watching people present, via video, from their home offices recently how many times have you found yourself distracted by…
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How to paint a big picture of success for your organisation and get your people telling stories, about how their work makes a difference Experience tells us that staff contribute…
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…
How to bring your vision or strategy to life, so your people get it and know what they need to do to make it happen “Look, we’ve got a crystal-clear…
Whatever journey you are on, the experience of professional guides always adds value. If your journey is to explain your business strategy – and take all of your people with…
How to take the entire organisation with you and land your vision Flick around a few TV channels and you’ll soon hear talent show contestants, sports stars and budding entrepreneurs…
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…
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….
