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🌟2023 highlights: ✅Running my first workshop at @IOIC Festival… a live group Kanban for communications planning! It left me buzzing off the experience and feedback for weeks! ✅Hearing the legendary Jim Highsmith, Co-author of the Agile Manifesto and original Agile Storyteller talk about exponential change, Agility and going back to basics. This has inspired my…

Here’s what you need to do: ➡️Define your ‘why’ in a few words and include it in all your communications. It takes 7 times for key messages to embed. ➡️Sync up your communications plan with the delivery roadmap to give people structure and a sense of the milestones and achievements. ➡️Allocate the right budget to…

❌The transformation lead who missed their own team updates! ❌The transformation lead who said: “I don’t give a f*** about communications”! ❌The transformation lead who no one in their own team knew! ➡️Here’s what I say to transformation leads - If you don’t give a f*** about comms, your people won’t give a f*** about…

✅Company culture comes first So here’s what we recommend: ➡️️Leadership visibly and regularly champion change. Without this, change and new ways of working will be impossible to achieve. ➡️Share the roadmap. Without the direction of travel, people will feel lost and become disengaged. ➡️Be transparent in your updates and promote a culture of feedback. Without…

We all know what it feels like to be lost at work. It’s unsettling. And breeds gossip. ✅Be transparent. Make your roadmap and key milestones visible. ✅Share them regularly so everyone knows where the company is headed. Get this right and it will: ➡️Alleviate anxiety and resistance ➡️Dispel myths and build trust ➡️Get your people…

Because it removes the usual communicators’ pain points! ➡️No more wasting time doing 12 month communications plans (that need updating!) Instead, I create 3 month plans and work on what’s priority in the next two weeks. ➡️No more wasted effort (or my soul destroyed) on communications that are later no longer needed! Instead, I present…

Among the many attributes needed for businesses to survive and thrive in a continuously changing world, adaptability is one of the most critical ones.  To keep pace with uncertainty, companies need to be adaptable and resilient, and able to pivot their priorities superfast. Superfast is not as easy as it sounds! To do this, many organisations…

🎤 Comms! Comms! Comms! You’ve to prioritise communications. And get it right. 🎤 Here’s how to nail your comms. Don’t just send ad hoc emails and updates. Do this: ➡️Have a good communications plan with targeted messages. ➡️Communicate with clarity and transparency. Good news and bad news. ➡️Deliver the messages at the right times. ➡️Use…

3 Agile meet-ups in 2 weeks and here are my 3 key takeaways you can’t ignore! ➡️ Are your leaders visibly leading the change? If they aren’t leading, or possibly worse that leadership isn’t visible, people will be disconnected from any need to change themselves. ➡️ Do your communications connect the ‘why’ to the outcomes?…

Take your people on a journey. 🚀 ❌Don’t do the transformation to them! ❌ Here’s what you need to do: ➡️Define your ‘why’ in a few words and include it in all your communications. It takes 7 times for key messages to embed. ➡️Sync up your communications plan with the delivery roadmap to give people…