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👽Ever feel like the alien in the room in a project meeting or a transformation briefing? 👽

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I did when I went on a 3-day Agile course and didn’t understand a word of what was said! It was so technical! Feeling out of the loop, I designed a course to help non-techie communications professionals. It’s based on my 6 years of learning how to deliver successful Agile communications, and also being a…

💡You’ve got to tell your success stories.💡

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👨‍🎓Here’s my favourite takeaway from last week’s talk with Scrum.org CEO, Dave West👇 💡You’ve got to tell your success stories.💡 🔅 Share stories and case studies on awesome work and successes - to inspire leaders and competitors. 🔅 Storytelling is also perfect for: ➡️ Celebrating the wins along the way and giving recognition to the…

𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞?

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Here are four ways to energise your people and drive that final push: 🎯 𝐀𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 remind your people of the ‘why’, the benefits and what good looks like. 🏆 Recognise their efforts and celebrate the wins. 📢 Share inspiring stories on the successful adoption of the changes. 👉 Show the progress made on the journey…

We did it again! 🙂

1 minute read11 July 2023624Views 0Likes 0Comments

Moved people’s confidence rating from 2.8 to 4.7 (out of 5) in 3 hours! Just delivered our course on 'Leading Agile Communications' for the Institute of Internal Communication again. More and more companies are rolling out Agile Ways of Working beyond their tech teams. Is this happening in your company? If so and you’re looking…

📢 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬!

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Join me for a 3 hour masterclass on 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 with the Institute of Internal Communication and learn: ✅Basic Agile jargon to stop feeling like an Agile alien! ✅To build a comms plan to drive your company’s transformation. ✅Agile best practices you can use and stop taking on too much work! 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞…

Getting the hang of in-person training delivery! 🙂

1 minute read26 June 2023517Views 0Likes 0Comments

Just did an interactive Lunch & Learn session with 25 people in HMRC’s IT Support and Finance team. It was on Agile Ways of Working, the benefits and best practices to drive collaboration, alignment and efficiencies in the day-to-day work. Looking forward to hearing how this team gets on. Thanks to Fahim Ahmed for inviting…

𝐖𝐎𝐖! 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐝𝐚𝐲!!! 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐳𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠!

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Had a really great day presenting Agile Comms Planning LIVE to comms professionals at the Institute of Internal Communications festival last week! Our first 'in-person' session! 🙂 👍So many great comments afterwards! Attendees loved the idea of doing a Kanban for comms outputs and using it for prioritisation, they also loved doing comms MVPs. 👍My…

Tried storytelling to get your teams on board with change?

1 minute read9 June 2023601Views 0Likes 0Comments

Try this. Find three early adopters and ask them if they’d like to share their personal stories about Agile Ways of Working. For example: 👉“Why I’m no longer sceptical about Agile Ways of Working.” 👉“It’s not just tech teams, Agile Ways of Working is helping the Finance and Marketing teams too!” 👉“MVPs save me loads…

So it’s not quite Glastonbury!

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We’re super excited to have made it into the line-up for this year’s IOIC Festival! We’re running a 40 minute session on ‘Agile Comms Planning LIVE!’. Really looking forward to setting comms professionals up with a comms plan and storytelling ideas to drive the comms for their Agile transformations.🙂 If you’re at the festival, you’ll…

Don’t underestimate the virtues of good comms.

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In our experience: Comms is thought of as a side-of-the-desk job. Comms is often an afterthought. Comms is seen as fluff. Don’t fall into this trap and miss out on the golden opportunity that good comms can do for your transformation!

Another first for us! 🙂

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Just been booked by an attendee of our last course! To run our 3 hour Masterclass in Leading Agile Communications in-house for their team of 16 experienced comms professionals. 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬! 🙂 Just been booked by an attendee of our last course! To run our 3 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 in-house…

Is your company kickstarting a transformation?

Uncategorized3 May 2023603Views 0Likes 0Comments

Transformations generally impact all colleagues in organisations, yet there is still a misconception that it’s just a tech change! Our three key recommendations to comms professionals would be to: 1. Be a curious explorer. Become engaged. Lead by example. 2. Upskill in the change, the jargon and ways of working. We're teaching this at our…