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….
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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…
Use these three steps to communicate your change strategy. Before you get all creative with a magical metaphor to communicate your strategy or other major change, think about the three…
Now there’s an affordable, pocket-sized way to help equip your managers with the leadership communication skills they need to deliver success. It’s widely held that leaders are – or at…
How to ensure your opinions don’t add colour to black and white facts. We’ve all got opinions. Some things you are asked to communicate you’ll like, others you don’t; indeed…
Communication isn’t an optional extra Managers are in privileged positions to influence others and make big differences to the performance of your organisation. However, automatic engagement with their teams is…
How to be a better communicator… Time and time again, employees say their line manager is their most trusted source of information, their communication channel of choice. But do the…
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’….
When communicating strategy with your entire workforce, take care to avoid using the kind of jargon that often finds its way into the original board paper. That might be appropriate…
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…
To help leaders and managers bring strategy to life in their part of the business, apply this simple sense-check. Would the strategy make sense if you chatted it through with…
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….
