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With strategic planning season in full swing, the Kademy coaches have shared their checklist of must-do’s, may-do’s, and don’ts on strategic planning and budgeting.

https://kademygroup.com/strategic-communication-planning-checklist/

Complex or messy problems take time, patience, and perseverance to resolve. Working on your relationship with yourself, as well as with others, can help you unpack a problem, get curious, and creatively design and test out solutions that get you to the best outcome.

Here are five tips from Kademy coach Justine M. Williams, ACC, CPCC to get you started.

https://kademygroup.com/five-relational-tips-for-effective-problem-solving/

When was the last time your comms team went through a restructure?

If the answer is "right now", it's likely you'll be looking for ways to avoid unnecessary duplication, reduce siloed working or have more of an aligned approach on strategic initiatives.

This new guide on organisational structures follows a roundtable we hosted last Friday where comms leaders from a variety of industries shared their advice, decisions, and strategies for restructuring their functions to achieve greater alignment with business priorities, upskill communicators across the globe, and lower the costs of redundancy.

Read on to hear the advice these comms leaders have for you when embarking on a restructure, and download our full guide for further support.

10 pieces of advice for restructuring your comms team - Kademy Improve the performance, engagement and expertise of your team with our powerful and comprehensive approach to learning and development.

Here's a little gem from Kademy coach Jenna Clarke...

Cross your arms. Now cross your arms the opposite way. How does it feel? Awkward? Weird? Hard to think about?

Think of this as a metaphor for changing behaviours through learning.

Often when you learn something new and try it for the first time it feels awkward. You have to think harder about it, it probably takes longer than usual, it’s not in your reflexes straight away and so chances are you'll stop and revert back to the way you did it before. But if you resist that urge, if you take the awkwardness as a good sign, if you push through it and keep doing that thing differently, then it gradually becomes easier and you’ll find yourself with a new double range of motion and a bigger comfort zone than you had before.

In this new report we use Kademy data to present a snapshot of the current state of communication skills and competencies and make recommendations about what needs to change for our industry to continue to be successful.

Download: Key trends every comms leader should be thinking about for 2021 - Kademy Improve the performance, engagement and expertise of your team with our powerful and comprehensive approach to learning and development.

Shifting organisational cultures takes time, but when Covid-19 hit, the world, the entire world, had to shift its culture in a few short months. Discover what made this possible and what we can apply to our less than life-threatening change initiatives.

What can the culture shifts caused by Covid-19 teach us as communicators? - Kademy Improve the performance, engagement and expertise of your team with our powerful and comprehensive approach to learning and development.

Finding the right balance when communicating about diversity and inclusion can be challenging. Listen to inclusion expert Charlotte Butler share what actions you can take as a communicator to make a positive difference and build empathy within your organisation.

6 pointers for supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace through your communications - Kademy Improve the performance, engagement and expertise of your team with our powerful and comprehensive approach to learning and development.

It’s commonly stated that organisational readiness for change is considered a critical precursor to the successful implementation of complex changes. At Kademy we flag five areas that enable you to create a permanent state of change-readiness in your organisation...

https://kademygroup.com/5-ingredients-for-change/

Staging a return to the office is a focus for many organisations right now. Whatever they choose to do and however they choose to do it, there are common challenges we’ll face as communicators.

https://kademygroup.com/supporting-managers/

What comes after the Covid-19 chaos?

It’s easy to feel paralysed by this question, but now is the time to consider how we can move forward in the short term and set ourselves up for success in the longer term.

Download Kademy’s free practical step-by-step guide to help your comms team come back stronger.

https://kademygroup.com/download-leadersguide/

How have you been using your global communications network over the last few weeks?

For many decentralised or siloed teams this network of 'part-time' or embedded communicators has been vital to deliver key information at a local level. Here's some of the ways we're working with members to find, upskill and tap into this valuable network.

Making the most of your local, ‘part-time’ communicators - Kademy Improve the performance, engagement and expertise of your team with our powerful and comprehensive approach to learning and development.

Taking the time to consider what these five types of crises might look like for your organisation and assessing how vulnerable you are to each one is a solid way to kick-off your crisis management plan.

Five types of crises - Kademy Improve the performance, engagement and expertise of your team with our powerful and comprehensive approach to learning and development.