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Strategy Communication: From Boardroom to Every Team
2,097 students
Strategy Communication: From Boardroom to Every Team
strategy communication | strategic alignment | okr cascading | change communication | employee engagement | all hands
Last updated 9/2026
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What you'll learn
- Leave a strategy session with a document and an implementation plan
- Audit how people in your company actually receive information
- Segment an internal audience and build a message that reaches each part
- Translate a strategy into objectives someone can restate in their own words
- Run the quarterly rhythm that keeps those objectives alive
- Facilitate the session where a strategy gets discussed rather than announced
- Handle resistance using Kotter's eight steps and the rider-elephant-path model
- Use engagement measurement to check whether the strategy actually landed
- Learn alongside Mike's 1.6 million students from 185 countries
- Get the author's experience from Preply, Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank
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Course content
14 sections • 38 lectures • 18h 11m total length
Requirements
- A strategy you are responsible for communicating, or for receiving and passing on
- No prior background in communications or facilitation required
- Access to whatever channels your company already uses internally
- English at intermediate level or above, since all lessons are in English
- Willingness to ask three people what the strategy is and accept the answers
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Ask three people in your company what the strategy is. The answers you get are the strategy. Whatever is in the document is a draft of it.
Where it stops being understood
The leadership team spends two days getting to a shared view, and every one of them leaves genuinely aligned. Then it is compressed into a slide, sent as an email, mentioned once at an all-hands, and handed to managers who were not in the room and have to explain it convincingly on Monday. By the time it reaches the person doing the work, it has been through four retellings, none of which were designed. I have written that email and been surprised, months later, at what people believed it said.
What this course actually covers
Six blocks, following the message the whole way down. First, where it is born: preparing and running a strategy session that produces a document and an implementation plan rather than photographs of a whiteboard. Second, communication as a system — auditing how people actually receive information, segmenting the internal audience, building personas, choosing the channel for the message, delivering the parts nobody will like, and measuring whether it arrived. Third, translating strategy into objectives a person can restate in their own words, using the "from X to Y by Z" format, and running the quarterly rhythm that keeps them alive. Fourth, facilitating the room where the strategy is discussed rather than announced, including large sessions and difficult participants. Fifth, resistance: the eight mistakes, Kotter's model, the rider-elephant-path model, early wins and anchoring the change. Sixth, engagement measurement as the honest test of whether any of it landed.
A note on the material
Fourteen of the thirty-six lessons were recorded as internal communications and engagement work. That is the subject rather than a substitute for it: a strategy is communicated to people inside a company, and engagement measurement is the most direct way of checking it reached further than the reporting pack.
Who is teaching this
I am Mike. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn, and I have worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank. More than 1.6 million students have enrolled in my courses across 185 countries, and over 150,000 specialists have gone through my programmes. I hold PHRi and SHRM-CP certifications and represent HRCI in more than ten countries.
What is included
Lifetime access to all 36 lessons
Active instructor support in the Q&A section
A Udemy Certificate of Completion
Working material: the two-day session agenda, the communications audit, audience personas and the message template, the "from X to Y by Z" format, Kotter's eight steps, Gallup Q12
Practical work on the strategy you actually have to communicate
Where to start
Ask three people at different levels what the company is trying to achieve this year, and write down the answers word for word. That set of three sentences is your real starting point. Enrol now and start today.
Who this course is for:
- Executives whose strategy is agreed and somehow never reaches the floor
- Heads of function translating a company strategy into something their team can act on
- Internal communications and strategy specialists who own the rollout
- Managers who receive a strategy each year and have to explain it convincingly
- Transformation leads communicating a change nobody asked for
- Founders whose team cannot state where the company is going
- Anyone who has sent a strategy email and watched nothing happen