What do I tell my team? A Communications Builder

You don't need to wait until you have every answer to tell your team what's happening. This free two-page tool gives you an outline for building a communication about change, whatever stage you're at and however much or little you currently know.

Work through four steps covering the outcome, what's next, keeping your message consistent with what you've said before, and what you need from your team. Each step gives you sentence starters to adapt to your situation, plus a worked example showing how it comes together in practice.

It's a practical companion to A Practical Guide to Communicating Change, built to help you turn the ten questions your team wants answered into the actual words you'll say to them. Print it, fill it in, and use it before your next conversation with your team about change.

Written by Dr Luella Forbes, drawing on 25 years working in organisational change and her doctorate researching communication for organisational change.