When facilitating a virtual meeting you should ‘cue’ your next speakers to avoid total silence or everyone talking at once. Send them a virtual red cue light… ‘Jo, I’ll turn…
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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…
In every team you’ll find informal influencers; colleagues whose ability to influence opinion, positively or otherwise, belies their position on the org’ chart. To help achieve your communication objectives, these…
Involving informal influencers in shaping and sharing your company’s stories, can be transformational With the Winter Olympics drawing to a close it has been a great few weeks for stories….
Harness the power of your informal influencers. In all organisations, you’ll find informal influencers whose voice carries further than the organisational chart would ever suggest. Partnering with these people can…
