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select from the choices below

ow much emphasis has your project put on engaging your people with key messages?

None
at all

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

The facts and figures of your project (the WHAT) are valuable to your organisation. However, how are you going to gain buy-in from the people who will help you to make this project work?

Stretch Learning specialises in taking hard data and creating key messages that will engage your people to understand WHY?

Will your key message be sustainable? Do they link to the real meaning of your project? Stretch Learning can view these key messages from an end user perspective and help your people to make more meaning for themselves.

This sounds encouraging, please go on to question 2

hich of these media are you most reliant on to get your key messages across?

Face to
face workshops

Meetings

e-learning

e-mail

Branding

Computer slide
presentations

If these workshops are face to face, what key messages will the learners take away from the session? Stretch Learning can help you to simplify these messages and design an engagement session for greater retention and recall.

E-learning is a great tool for people who use it! Stretch Learning can help to raise your take-up rate by creating an engagement process that enables sceptics to become end users.

Branding will only be successful if the people delivering it have the skills to match the brand. Stretch Learning will upskill your team to inspire people to action therefore supporting the brand rather than the brand supporting them.

Are your meetings interactive or are they designed as a TELL session? Stretch Learning can help you take your meeting format and build a memorable engagement process for your teams, groups and divisions.

Regular communication can certainly help to embed key messages for your employees. Stretch Learning can help you design and create on-line job aids that link firmly to your change programme.

Research shows that misuse of electronic presentations (eg too much information, bullet point city) can antagonise learners and cause frustrations for your audience. Stretch Learning can help you to create engagement workshops that make the difference for your learners.

ow much of the project has been allotted/spent so far on non-face to face media?

None
at all

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

The level of concern you have regarding this project connecting with people should really determine how much time and effort you put into connecting with your people face to face. Stretch Learning can help to challenge your thinking around what's best from your receiver's perspective, to make the project more successful.

To help your people to feel more in control of the imposed changes it's important to have a balance of face to face engagement and relevant background information. Stretch Learning will help those who decide on the change to engage fully…. the people who must implement these changes.

It appears that connecting with your people on a more personal level is vital for this project. Stretch Learning can help you to design engagement processes that helps your people to understand and come to terms with change.

ow concerned are you that people won't buy into this project?

Not at all

Quite concerned

Very concerned

Great news - please go to question 5.

Gaining the trust of your people to help them move through complex change issues will help you, the person who decides/instigates the change, to gain more credibility. Stretch Learning have many success/rescue stories to help you build trust in us.

If you would like to shift your people from "How dare they?" to "I'm excited about the possibilities." Please contact us now!

ow confident are you of the project succeeding?

Not confident

Slightly confident

Confident

Very confident

If you are not confident then it's quite likely you and your implementation team may be modelling this to your people. Stretch Learning will assist you from "the inside out" to discover the language, process and content needed to engage people to change.

If you are only slightly confident of this project succeeding it may be that you have created what needs to be delivered and even how it could be implemented. Stretch Learning will challenge you to come from a receiver's perspective and create key messages for them around the WHY?

You appear to be thinking from your people's perspective. If you require help with shifting your people from accepting and exploring new ideas through to full commitment, please call Stretch Learning for a discussion around how we can assist you.

Well done - please go to question 6.

hat stage in the project do you see as the weakest link?

Sponsors

Key
messages

Design

Line Manager
Buy-in

Roll Out

Buy in from
all employees

The need for leadership during radical change is widely recognised. The high failure rate of change programmes is normally down to the people involved. Stretch Learning can help to challenge the "sponsorship" team or individual involved. The earlier Stretch Learning gets involved with the process - the more meaningful your "key messages" for this project will be.

Your key messages need to be consistent, concise and have clarity. Stretch Learning will challenge you from an end user perspective to fine tune your key messages that will hit the spot and be memorable.

Stretch Learning can help you to design a more brain compatible change programme. People generally ask the question WHY? When facing change initiative. Stretch Learning will work from the "end in mind" key message process.

This certainly is a cause for concern. Line Managers are crucial to the success of your programme. Are your Line Managers fully equipped for dealing with the reactions they may get? Stretch Learning can help to upskill you Line Managers to model "what works well" and enable them to cascade key messages through powerful engagement sessions.

Your project certainly has a gap when it comes to engaging the people that will make it work. Stretch Learning can assist you to bridge this gap by focussing on what you want your people to be saying, thinking, doing differently following the programme.

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