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A strategy only works if people can repeat it.

Most strategies are clear to the ten people who wrote them. We help you communicate strategy and values to employees, so people can explain them, believe them and make decisions with them.

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Sound familiar?

“Leadership loves the strategy. Nobody else can explain it.”
“The values are on the wall, the mugs and the intranet. Nowhere else.”
“We had a great launch event. Three months later, nothing changed.”
“Every manager tells the story differently.”

What good looks like

Anyone in the company can explain the strategy in two sentences, in their own words. They can see what it changes about their own work. Managers tell the same story, and the values show up in decisions, not posters.

How to communicate strategy to employees so they can repeat it

A strategy is communicated when people who weren’t in the room can explain it in their own words, and use it to make a decision. Most strategy communication stops at the announcement.

  1. 1

    Get it down to two sentences

    If leadership can’t say the strategy in two sentences, nobody else will. Write the short version first, test it on people outside the strategy team, and keep rewriting until they can play it back.

  2. 2

    Explain the why, including what you’re giving up

    A strategy is a set of choices. People believe it when they can see what was rejected and why. Leave out the trade-offs and it sounds like every other strategy.

  3. 3

    Translate it for each team

    The strategy means something different for sales, for the factory and for finance. Give each team the “so what for us”: what changes in their work, what stays the same, and which decisions it should guide.

  4. 4

    Give managers the story, not the slides

    Most people hear about strategy from their manager, not the CEO. Give managers one shared story, the hard questions they’ll be asked and honest answers, so the strategy doesn’t come out five different ways.

  5. 5

    Put the values into decisions

    Values on posters change nothing. Show what each value means in a real dilemma people face, what it rules in and what it rules out. Our code of conduct case does this as a house you can walk through, one value per room.

  6. 6

    Repeat it, then check it landed

    One launch event is not a plan. Come back to the strategy in team meetings, in decisions and in recognition. Then check: ask a sample of people to explain it, and fix the gaps you hear.

Which moments apply

Proof

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Which strategy can’t people repeat yet?

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