I dwell in an organization that inherently has complex vision and ideas that can be difficult to communicate. Last week I wrote about communication design and I want to start fleshing out those ideas a little further.

On our team I have started to introduce a few of the players to my new favorite phrase; Whack Bat. We are in the middle of rolling out a strategy that is very complex yet needs to be communicated simply.

Whack Bat

The issue that arises in such a large collaboration is that different people are passionate about different pieces of the puzzle and can start to feel threatened when the communication effort doesn’t appear to show what they think the value of the component is.

What strategies does your team use to take a complex idea and whittle it down to something simple?