Try this: ➡️Lead the way and share something that you failed at and what you learnt. ➡️Then encourage your people to do the same. ✅Actions speak louder than words.
Sending out ad hoc updates and functional emails isn't enough to excite anyone. 😐 Yes, it's needed but you also need to: ➡️tell your people's stories ➡️create a buzz about the things they've built ➡️make them feel proud of the things they've fixed. Sharing stories and videos creates a fantastic sense of…
Here’s how you remind your people! 👇 ✅Build a vivid picture of the end goal using outcomes that mean something to them. What do the new ways of working mean for: ▶️ Your people: Easier processes, more job satisfaction, better decision making ▶️ Your customers: Easier to do business with us, enhance…
If you asked 5 people around the company, would they know? It’s very easy for the message to become lost over time. Repetition is absolutely key! ✅ Regularly connecting your updates back to the reasons behind the changes will land the ‘why’ across your business and drive the energy needed to get it over…
Sustainability isn’t just about recycling cups and getting the train! Did you know - Reusing existing fonts in website design conserves energy? Duplicate documents and data storage is a drain on energy? And there’s countless more! ♻️ I’m now looking at the role of communications to drive sustainable behaviours and support companies as…
It was on creating psychological safety using storytelling!
Thanks Agile Business Consortium for the opportunity.
Looking forward to evolving as a speaker and sharing ways to use communications and storytelling in times of change to get buy-in, build trust and safety at work. ✅
Looking forward to delivering my first quickfire presentation at a conference today! Will be on the topic of how to use real life stories to create psychological safety at work ✅
What a great line-up! Not Glastonbury! Although that did have a great line up too! 🤣 I mean Agile 2024! 🥳 I’m on my way to Manchester right now for 2 and a half days with like-minded folks. With such great events, it’s so hard to pick between sessions! I’m really…
Just delivered my new course to internal communicators, ‘Landing Great Communications for Technology Change’ with the Institute of Internal Communication ✅ My aim was to get attendees’ confidence in tech change storytelling and working with tech folks from 2-3 out of 5 to 3-4. Achieved that! 📈 Had some really interesting insights from attendees,…
Join my one day workshop and get set up to add value faster ✅
To sign up, click here: https://www.ioic.org.uk/events/event-training-calendar/landing-great-communications-for-technology-change.html
I had NO clue what he’d said - it was all tech speak! 🤦♀️
Fast forward to 2024, I’m now teaching internal communicators how to interview and work with tech folks ✅
If this is you, here are two things for you
▶️ Join me for a Lunch & Learn I’m doing with the VMA…
Are you an internal communicator required to support the communications for tech change in your organisation? Don’t know where to start?
Join me on this free lunch and learn with the VMA GROUP where I’ll be sharing my tried & tested tips to get you started on tech storytelling.