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…
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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…
An investment that pays dividends In these turbulent economic times, people are turning to a safe haven for their investments – gold. Turning to gold in your organisation is a…
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….
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…
As a species, we’ve been using storytelling techniques to make our messages more memorable for over 27,000 years, but you don’t have to study history for inspiration. Compelling stories that…
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….
Workshops help staff make maximum impact during major organisational change. More than 100 patient safety specialists at AstraZeneca have taken part in workshops to equip them with the communication and…
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…
Top team at major insurer create their own development programme to build engagement capability. Leaders from Assicurazioni Generali SpA United Kingdom Branch (Generali UKB) are better able to influence their…
