We recently had a fantastic session with some of our seasoned Clarity First members about how to help your colleagues with their communication.
The session raised some really interesting questions:
From your perspective – How expedient should we be to protect our own workloads when helping others vs ‘going the extra mile’ to demonstrate to them the value they COULD add as well as the traps you see them falling into because they have some gaps or other inadequacies in their communication.
From the audience's perspective – What would you value from a colleague? A few quick tips or some strategically game changing advice?
From the business’s perspective – what is the greatest value you can add … by investing more in your own priorities or helping your colleague with theirs?
Listen in to the great conversation for some practical tips and download the session notes below.
Keywords: Design your strategy, Develop your storyline, Patterns, Stakeholder management, Leadership
Need help getting started with the Program?
I had a terrific conversation with one of our new members today who was bemoaning her lack of progress in the program so far. Like many of you, she has a busy job and hasn't yet found her ‘groove'.
Here are three ideas that she thought would work for her, that might help you also:
- Listen to some of the interviews stored in the library during your commute. There are a number, all tagged ‘interview' on topics such as board papers, hypothesis driven problem solving and how to get the information you need from busy stakeholders to prepare a piece of communication.
- Lock a time into your diary near the start of your day to complete a module or two. Instead of leaving your learning to the end of the day where it may be ‘run over', locking away 15 minutes will see you finish a module, giving you something useful to try that day.
- Set up a time for a 10 minute chat with Sheena to learn to navigate the portal. If you aren't sure how to find what you need, Sheena is very happy to Zoom with you to demonstrate.