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The Long Game
Why the teams that last are the ones that plan for tiredness, not just for success. A keynote about keeping people going through long change.
from £4,500
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Why this talk exists
Most change programmes do not fail at the start. They fail in month three, when the first energy has gone and the plan still has a year to run. The Long Game is Hannah's keynote about that moment: how leaders keep people going when the work is long, the news is mixed and everyone is a little tired.
How the session runs
45 minutes, in three parts. First, the story of the merger year at Northbank and the team that burned out. Then three habits that kept the rebuilt team going: pacing work in seasons, honest Mondays, and never letting one person carry a project alone. Finally, a short exercise the audience can use on their own team the next morning.
What we tailor
On the briefing call we look at where your organisation is in its own change, which stories will land with your people, and what you want leaders to do differently afterwards. The examples and the closing exercise are rewritten for every event.
Who it is for
Leadership conferences and company kick-offs where people are about to start something long: a transformation, a new strategy, a hard year. It works for rooms of 200 to 4,000, and the closing exercise scales from a single team to a whole leadership group. Many organisers book it as the opening keynote so the ideas can be picked up in the sessions that follow.
Tired is not lazy. Most teams that stall are running out of fuel, not out of ideas.
Hannah gave our people the words for what they were feeling. Six months later, managers still quote her.
Priya Natarajan
Chief People Officer
Meridian Bank
