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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…

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…

It’s about building a version of a product with just enough features that meet a customer’s needs, that they can give feedback on, which will shape the next version. Benefits of this approach: It’s faster to build the ‘smallest’ version of a product rather than the final one. Getting early feedback means the customer inputs…

Link to our free Comms Planning Tool: https://theagilestorytellingcompany.com/what-we-offer/ *Easily adjustable to your Agile Ways of Working

Oh I sooo wasn't! I thought, "I'm pretty flexible in my outlook. Yeah, I'm on trend with this new way of working! I even use Trello sometimes!" It seems so bonkers now when I think about it! I think I was going for the 'Agile By Osmosis' approach. It's taken me a while to realise…

You really can't scale Agile Ways of Working if people don't know what it looks like! Here are three Agile Ways of Working story ideas to show them. -Launch of new customer services in record time. -Sticky notes and Kanbans revolutionise overworked teams' workloads. -Power to the people - Building autonomous teams. Tell your stories…

Find 3 people who have adopted it. What's working well for them? Then share and spread that buzz.

You spend ages mapping out 6 to 12 months plans and campaigns. Then everything changes. Sick of it? Try our Agile 2-step approach instead: Stop doing annual plans. Start doing just-in-time, 2 week comms instead. And take away the stress of reworks... and you thought Agile Ways of Working are just for tech teams!…