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5.2
Module 5 · Monday Morning

The Communication Playbook

Draft three ready-to-send messages — for your board, your direct reports, and your front-line teams — using templates from Appendix H with adjustable tone controls.

Communication Message Builder Tone Calibrator
10 minutes
Ch 5, pp. 115–116 & Appendix H, pp. 208–210

Four Communication Principles

1Name the change honestly

Your workforce has a BS detector. Tell them what's actually happening, not a sanitised version.

2Show the plan before the numbers

Lead with new roles, retraining, timeline, support — then the arithmetic. People need to see a future, not just a spreadsheet.

3Be honest about what you don't know

Admitting uncertainty earns credibility. Pretending certainty destroys it.

4Make retraining real

3–6 months structured transition, not a 2-day workshop. If it's not in the budget, it's not real.

Message Builder

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Communication Timeline

When to communicate at each EDGE phase — deploy before Design, not at Go Live.

Before Expose
Announce initiative, explain EDGE Method, introduce retraining options
Executive Sponsor
During Expose
Involve the team in workflow mapping — co-authors, not subjects
EDGE Team
During Design
Share new role designs, open retraining applications
HR + Sponsor
During Go Live
Weekly updates — transparent, including ugly week-one numbers
EDGE Team Lead
At Cut Over
Confirm role transitions, begin retraining, celebrate the team
Executive Sponsor

New roles created: Agent Supervisor, System Architect, Exception Handler, Alignment Specialist — each draws from existing team expertise.

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Key Insight

The organisations that handle the human transition with care will outperform those that don't. Not just ethically. Strategically. The gap between AI-native and legacy organisations doesn't close over time. It compounds. Start on Monday.

The AI-Native Playbook, pp. 118 & 188

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