Communications & Collaboration

Communications Forum

Improve your team’s information-sharing to build the shared situational awareness necessary to achieve your goals

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A Communications Forum provides deep contextual understanding that helps break down silos and drive collaboration, enabling an organization to execute its strategy with greater speed and adaptability.​

 

Organizations perform when teams work, and teams can’t work without communication.

Streamline your communication processes and operating models to eliminate waste, increase effectiveness, and improve cross-functional collaboration. ​Our approach improves organization-wide communication, builds internal networks, and reduces the number of meetings, ensuring that your enterprise functions optimally in today’s resource-constrained world.

We’d engineered our business for scale, but we didn't have our teams talking to one another. Once MG got these groups connected, suddenly…all of these insights started to come out.

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Healthcare Organization

To design a forum that is tailored to the specific needs of the organization, McChrystal Group uses a two-phased approach with an extensive research phase prior to the forum’s launch. The information gathered during the research phase will be analyzed to develop recommendations for your operating rhythm and a bespoke agenda for a forum. 

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Research Phase

Scoping.

Our team will collate information on your structure, strategy, and the purpose and schedule of existing meetings. This information will help us to understand how you are currently communicating.

Workshops. 

Workshops will identify what information participants need access to in order to do their jobs more effectively.


Implementation

Training. 

Training will be carried out to prepare key individuals for the launch of the forum.

Review and Refine. 

Once the forum is up and running, the embedded team from McChrystal Group will attend all forums to take notes, share lessons learned, and provide recommendations.

 

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  • Having a successful communication infrastructure requires thoughtful planning and deployment. Our team of experts is adept at weaving together voice, video, and data into a coherent communications system required to thrive in our global and hybrid world.​
  • Today’s work environment demands that organizations be adaptable in their ways of workings. Our collaboration methodology transforms how information is shared, stored, and interacted with in your day-to-day stream of work.

We Want to Hear From You.

We’d love to learn more about you, your team, and your challenges.
Our team is ready to help.

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Hybrid Communications Forum

Whether your team is scattered across the globe or operates in a hybrid working environment, a communication forum can be tailored to fit your organization's evolving needs. We've outlined how a virtual communication forum operates so you can better understand how it will look in practice.

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