Communicating Strategy: The Book, Blog, Techniques, to engage your staff

Strategy Communication

Do you have employees, or people in your business

Whilst researching my next book, I was discussing with a Chief Executive how he communicated the culture his organisation. He explained that they published the revenue, margin and profit from every deal on the wall.  Everyone knew what the overheads were so that they knew how many deals covered their expenses for the month.   [...]

Engaging Staff: The MacLeod report

In the previous post I explained how David MacLeod in his report on employee engagement is convinced that it is vital for the success and competitiveness of organisations and the country. One key line is “Engaged organisations have strong and authentic values, with clear evidence of trust and fairness based on mutual respect”.  A fundamental [...]

The Biggest communication mistake: Thinking you have already communicated

This is possibly the most common mistake in communication, How often have you though you have told someone something, but either they forgot or you only meant to tell them but never got around to doing it.  You never actually said it. How often have you told someone about something, but actually you told someone [...]

Why I wrote the book Communicating Strategy (Part 2)

This book started as a short e-book, but soon developed into this fuller book. Its working title was ‘Heads, hearts and hands’, which reflected the strategy being in the head, as a logically correct thing to do; being in the heart, as an emotional response and engagement; and being in the hands, so it is [...]