When You’re Tired of Saying It, They’re Only Just Starting To Hear It
Sometimes the universe wants to tell you something. For me this week, it was Volume Baby! - - You're just not communicating enough!
Does Your Project Fail This Test?
When it comes to projects, without value clarity you can’t rally your team or win stakeholders, you can’t explain why the project is needed and you can’t tell if you actually succeeded. - So here’s a super quick test to see if your project has meaningful value clarity in just 30 seconds.
The Grumpy Incumbent
But what happens when a key member of your project team has just been passed over for a promotion? How do we re-energise a skeptical individual? And what do we do if we can’t?
Project Ads
How would you think differently about your role if you started calling your change comms - ‘project advertising’?
The Secret To Making Noise: a x b
At some stage in your change you’re going to have to tell people about it. We all know this. So here's how ensure your message actually gets out.
Flipping The Limit
In change projects the consideration of constraints is part of standard practice, yet we all have tendency to focus on the negative limitations: “Things we can’t do, or don’t have”. What if you flipped that narrative?
Unschooling How We Change
Rote-learned change frameworks and templates mean that people just copy and paste what they think should be there so they can ‘tick the box’. Then everyone acts surprised when the adoption efforts fail…
How Humans Change
I’ve recently dived into David Goggins’ book - ‘Can’t Hurt Me’. It’s a fascinating, and heartbreaking read. However, there was one quote at the start of the book that stood out for me:
What’s In A Name?
Fun fact - on the very first day of my corporate career, as a naive graduate, I was handed a 5-pg long list of acronyms. But it’s not the sheer quantity of acronyms that’s the worry here - it's something far more sinister...
Fakery & Outrage
This is disgusting, outrageous and frustrating.