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🎭There will be short term pain before any gain. 💪Here’s what to do to get your people through it: 📢Regularly remind them of the ‘why’. 🏆Share and celebrate the wins. 🥇Give recognition to people and teams who have helped achieve those wins. 🥇Give recognition to people and teams who have helped achieve those wins.

👨‍🎓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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Here are 3 ways to make it easier: Regular check points with the leadership team/sponsor on what’s been achieved and what to focus on next. Recognition for going the extra mile and helping achieve the vision. Regular feedback loop to make continuous improvements.   See our previous posts: Transformations Are Hard #1 Transformations Are Hard #2

How: Humanise the program by celebrating their wins and their efforts…not 'the programme’s'! ;) Goal: Keep them motivated and aligned to your transformation.  Check: Are they energised and going the extra mile to help you achieve your goals? If not, ask 3 people the one thing you need to do differently. See previous posts: -…

Keep your people informed of course, but ‘humanise it’ by giving opportunities for 2-way conversations. How: Plan in regular updates, FAQs and two way feedback loops.  Goal: Keep your people updated and aligned to your transformation.  Check: Are they aligned to you and your goals? Are they striving to deliver on them on time? If…

Just delivered my first public course for the Institute of Internal Communications! Leading Agile Communications…2 to 4.5! So happy! Loved every minute! Thrilled with the feedback: “That was a super training session. Everything was clear and relevant to a communicator's heart.” “The training course was excellent - very well delivered with very practical applications.” “If…