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Reflect … lock down or no lock down

15th June 2020/in News & Events/by Sarah Forde

I’ve worked from home, quite happily, for the last ten years. But, now, this home is full of children home educating, and we’re juggling laptops, tablets, phones and earphones, live classes, Zoom calls, videos, assemblies and worksheet submissions. Add inconsistent wi-fi into the mix and I’ve got fairly consistent chaos and absolutely consistent noise from 8am to 3pm.

Njuhi Chege consultant at Well Made Strategy

Starting a new job on April Fool’s Day in the midst of a pandemic

30th April 2020/in News & Events, Strategic Communications/by Njuhi Chege

I love mischief on April Fools’ Day but starting a new job on this year’s April 1^st was a proper shocker.

Strategic Handbook for Social Change by Well Made Strategy

Communicating for change

4th February 2020/in Strategic Communications/by Editor

There’s nothing like a near death experience to get you thinking. When I emerged from a coma in February last year one of my very first thoughts was whether we were letting down any of our partners. Being the sort of partners they are, they soon told me to shut up, stop worrying and get better. I took their advice and just recently received the “all clear” after a year in which – with the help of my incredible family and wonderful friends – I dodged death a score of times.

Guest Post: Artful Conferences by Lucy Maina — Education initiative uses social practice art to innovate.

30th September 2018/in Education, Innovation, Strategic Communications/by Editor

How do you inspire innovation? The Regional Education Learning Initiative (RELI) had the daunting task of encouraging innovation among 160 educators from five countries in East Africa at the last RELI convening. To meet the challenge they solicited the help of the culture consultants at limeSHIFT. limeSHIFT works with communities – public and private – to make them their most productive, purposeful and creative.

Why the World Cup has everything to do with think tank communications

26th June 2018/in News & Events, Strategic Communications/by Editor

First published by onthinktanks.org: The World Cup is now in full swing and, whether you love or loathe it, football will continue to dominate the news cycle over the next few weeks.

Robert Mugabe: my part in his downfall

23rd November 2017/in Governance, Strategic Communications/by Editor

History will remember this as the week that Mugabe finally fell. But history will almost certainly forget the bit-part role I played in his downfall.

Insights PODCAST: strategy SPECIAL

10th November 2017/in Strategic Communications/by Editor

LISTEN to the FIFTH episode of the new Well Told Story INSIGHTS Podcast

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This is a special episode about the work of Well Made Strategy, our strategic communications consultancy section.

Nudge, nudge, tweet, tweet

12th October 2017/in Strategic Communications/by Editor

In the week that US academic Richard H. Thaler wins the Nobel Prize for his work on behavioural economics, it’s worth thinking about what that means for us lesser mortals toiling on the coal face of learning, health, and happiness (the suffix to his 2008 book, Nudge, with Cass Sunstein).

What I learned from giving a TED Talk

3rd October 2017/in Governance, Kenya, News & Events, Strategic Communications/by Editor

Exactly a week ago, my TED Talk about Colour in Faith, a project about countering fear through social practice art was published. The talk is less than twelve minutes long but it took me a lifetime to prepare for it!

Those twelve minutes were prepared over months and days of working with my colleagues at Well Made Strategy, the TED curatorial team and wonderful Broadway choreographer Danny Mefford. I’m going to save you a lot of time and share a few useful tips from my experience.