Bring the team and partners along.

13 things you can make for this, each composed from what your organization already knows and rendered in your brand.

01Why this one is hard

The expensive failures are internal. A team that has heard three versions of the strategy will produce three versions of everything downstream, and nobody notices until the work goes out.

02What you can make
Campaign brief

The brief that sets up a campaign: the objective, the audience, the core message and proof, the channels, and what success looks like. Sets the context the workspace's next pieces start from.

Document

Culture & values

What your organization stands for: the values and the way of working that define it, for the people inside it.

Slides · Web page · Social

Customer brief

The brief that captures a customer account: who they are, their goals and situation, how you work with them, and the messages that matter. Sets the context the workspace's next pieces start from.

Document

Employee onboarding

Everything a new hire needs to start well: the essentials, the context, and the first steps.

Document · Slides · Web page

Internal briefing

A clear briefing for your own team: what is changing, why it matters, how the team works with it, and what to do next. For adopting a tool, a policy, or a new way of working. The audience is your own team, kept internal.

Slides · Document

Internal memo

A short note for your own team: what is decided or changing, why, and what each person does next. Usually one page.

Document

Internal update / all-hands

An update for your own team: the news that matters, the context behind it, and what to do with it.

Slides · Email

Kickoff

A shared starting point for a project: the objectives, the team, the plan, and everyone's role.

Slides

Policy / handbook

A clear reference for how things are done: the policy or handbook your team can rely on.

Document

Project brief

The brief that frames a project: the goal, the scope, the audience, the key messages, and the constraints. Sets the context the workspace's next pieces start from.

Document

Recruitment / careers

An invitation to join your team: who you are, what the role offers, and how to apply.

Web page · Social

Status update

A clear progress update for stakeholders: where things stand, what changed, and the next steps.

Slides · Document · Web page

Watercooler

A quick, informal piece for the team: a light update or an ice-breaker to get a room talking.

Slides

03How you get there
  1. Pick what everyone needs to be holding: the plan, the position, the state of the work.
  2. Gyrium composes it from the same foundation the outward-facing work uses, so the internal and the external story cannot drift apart.
  3. Review it with the people answerable for it before it goes anywhere.
  4. Share it as a link, or present it, and take questions against the sources behind it.
  5. It files itself where the team will look for it next time.
%sCreate, asking What do you want to achieve. The Proposal blueprint is picked out, with Slides recommended, Document and Web page. The Create button in the menu is highlighted. The callout reads: Pick the blueprint that fits, then its format.
Step 1Create · Choosing a blueprintDemo: a fictional cardiovascular research institute, with simulated figures.
%sA deck's brief: objective, desired outcome, audience, register, key messages, call to action, concerns and narrative arc. The Brief step of the process bar is picked out. The callout reads: The brief: what it must achieve, and for whom.
Step 2A deck, Brief · The briefDemo: a fictional cardiovascular research institute, with simulated figures.
%sThe deck's narrative, section by section. The Narrative arc chart is picked out. The callout reads: The narrative, to approve before anything is written.
Step 3A deck, Narrative · The narrativeDemo: a fictional cardiovascular research institute, with simulated figures.
%sThe deck in review, with the section The Data opened and picked out, listing its three slides. The callout reads: The deck, section by section, each slide in it.
Step 4A deck, Review · The deck, section by sectionDemo: a fictional cardiovascular research institute, with simulated figures.
%sThe deck in review on slide 9. The live render of the slide is picked out, with four figures labelled as a simulated cohort. The callout reads: Each slide as your reader will see it.
Step 5A deck, Review, one slide · One slide in reviewDemo: a fictional cardiovascular research institute, with simulated figures.
%sThe last step of an approved deck. Three parts are picked out: Start presenting, with the callout Present it; Forward for review, with the callout Forward it for review; and Take it away, with the callout Or take it away as a file.
Step 6A deck, Present · Present, forward, or take it awayDemo: a fictional cardiovascular research institute, with simulated figures.
What this draws on

See it hold your own work.

The pilot takes a small number of organizations at a time. Bring what you already have.