by Julie Verry | Aug 27, 2021
With strategic planning season already in full swing, we checked in with our Kademy coaches to see if they had any tips for Communications leaders putting together strategic plans and budgets while facing the rollercoaster of uncertainty that will likely stick with us... 
by Ann-Mari Freebairn | Aug 17, 2021
The term VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) has taken on new significance since the beginning of the global pandemic and the role of communications in enabling organisations to survive, and even thrive, in this ever-shifting environment cannot be... 
by Julie Verry | Jul 5, 2021
Planning your return to office strategy? Looking to boost performance through shared values and behaviours? Elevating diversity and inclusion as critical needs? Bringing employees together in a merger? Almost every communicator we know would raise their hands at one... 
by Justine Williams | Jun 14, 2021
“Can you help me think like an executive and really understand what matters to them?” Ever asked this question of yourself? This is how Julie*, a smart and successful communications manager and Kademy member began our recent coaching call. Julie shared that her first... 
by Kinga Nagy | Jun 9, 2021
Experiencing major change creates stress – and we know that the negative emotions associated with stress, such as fear and anxiety, activate the amygdala in your brain that switches you into fight-or-flight mode. When your brain is constantly in this survival mode,... 
by Jenna Clarke | Jun 1, 2021
As businesses amend their policies and procedures for future ways of working and different preferences, communications leaders are navigating unprecedented complexity and many unknowns. “It was much easier to get people to leave the office than it is to get them to... 
by Alex Hentschel | May 17, 2021
Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman’s model above illustrates how, in System 1 thinking, the brain reinforces our intrinsic biases and motivations to influence our behaviour. Here, we instinctively gravitate to what’s familiar to us, to people who look like us, and to... 
by Alex Hentschel | Feb 11, 2021
During a recent Kademy roundtable, Designing Resilient Organisational Structures, 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... 
by Alex Hentschel | Feb 4, 2021
As our 2021 content development roadmap comes into focus, the work we’ve completed in the background has highlighted some consistent themes that are important for comms leaders as they consider how to invest learning and development budgets. These themes are laid out... 
by Alex Hentschel | Nov 18, 2020
Being able to spot trends, adapt and support your team accordingly is a critical part of your role as a comms leader. Our most recent benchmarking data revealed that the ability to collaborate, listen, and coach stakeholders is more important than ever and yet the two... 