John Rockley

Later I am meeting my friend Lee for dinner at Gloucester Quays...

I am delighted that I could write "Lee, Tea, Quay" on the calendar.

That is all.

Ah... You've found it...

Got to that bit now

That'll be my ADHD kicking in 😁

YouTube video by EnigmaVEVO Enigma - Return To Innocence (Official Video)

Hi @ifycomedy.com The song on #tvchefffantasyleague (sorry if you get it later in the episode, not heard it all yet) was it "Return to Innocence" by Enigma?

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Please @jordanmorris.bsky.social @mattlieb.bsky.social and Emily Fleming, acquaint yourselves with the #Profanisaurus for the next time you review a Jane Austin film... this is how we really speak!
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The wonderful @jorockleyart.bsky.social is a finalist at the #BroadwayArtFestival2025 with her highly personal piece "Overwhelmed" exploring #bodyimage #bodydysmorphia and #aging

More of her work here - www.johannarockley.co.uk/product-page...

#artistofbluesky #womeninart

"Your dad paints roundabouts" is my new go to insult.

Dave, Sue & the Data Dilemma: What BBC Local Radio Taught Me About Storytelling Let’s talk about data-driven storytelling, the buzzword that’s become a must-have in every communicator’s toolkit. It’s never been easier to collect data, slice it, dice it, and serve it up with a ...

🎙️ Ever tried to build a story from data and ended up with… a caravan?

Dive into the rise (and fall) of “Dave & Sue” & what they taught us about storytelling.

💡 Hint: Data should frame the story, not write it.

👉 Read it here: shorturl.at/1diRO

#Storytelling #DataDriven #Radio #BlueskyBlogs

A pink bowl filled with yellow Mirabelle plums

For the first time since moving into this house 4 years ago the tree that did very little has fruited in abundance. It's a Mirabelle plum, and I shall be making plum jam today.

#summer #fruit

YouTube video by John Rockley Neurodiversity and Communication

How should leaders communicate with teams who have a mixture of neurodiversity?

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My #adhd is different to my sons #asd so how would you communicate to a team with us both in??

Social Currency - Protecting the Countryside More "yes, and..." less "no, but..."

Last week was #ruralhousingweek - and I've used that as an example of how social currency could help better frame campaigning.

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#ukhousing #housing #ruralhousing #pr #comms #policy

this is a sith lightsaber, from the war. I keep it on a shelf right next to my stormtrooper armor and imperial officer’s uniform. I’ve even got a verified chunk of the death star from yavin. I’m just a collector. I just think the history is interesting. no, I don’t have any rebel stuff

Let's just talk like normal people instead of using #business tribal #language.

We like to use words to signify that we belong, but it gets in the way - people outside of our world don't understand what we're saying.

#comms #ukhousing #consultant

YouTube video by John Rockley Secret Business Languages

Wanna learn secret business ways? Wanna touch my bottom line?

www.youtube.com/shorts/8su0s...

You're going to have to watch your language :-)

And the constant lag means that organisations like @capitallettersldn.bsky.social set up to find homes for people will go out of business... like we are.

LHA freezing and the cost of money for non RP not for profits has done us in.

It's OK If You Don't Like Change You don’t have to like change.Change is inevitable, inexorable, and intrusive.Change can push you out of your current place of comfort into one of discomfort… it may be very very transient discomfort,...

Change is inevitable. It’s intrusive. And you don’t have to like it.

From digital disruption at the BBC to the white beard I never asked for—what matters in change comms.

🔗 www.jdoubler.co.uk/post/it-s-ok...

#ChangeLeadership #InternalComms #OrganisationalChange #Storytelling #Comms #BlogPost

What happens when all your PR planning is ruined by a narrative that you didn't make, and you can't control?

It's 124 seconds on "The Brownian Motion of Narrative"

#pr #comms #storytelling

and the body confidence of a reform voter - shirt off in a pub carpark (or on march to "protect a cenotaph"), beer belly swinging.

YouTube video by John Rockley 5 tips for brilliant presenting #businesstips #motivation #basics #comms #businessadvice

want help #presenting? here are 5 tips...

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YouTube video by John Rockley Is your business making the right first impression?

when was the last time you got "the ick" from a business?

Mine was at a hotel where none of the uniforms fitted... not one... so I immediately got very concerned about the housekeeping.

I was right to be concerned.

youtube.com/shorts/OV5QB...

#businesstips #nonverbalcomms

I reversed my motorbike down our steep drive into the back of my car today...

The car has come off worse.

Big dent.

How's your #monday??

we need a White Mediocrity Month. months celebrating 'minority' excellence doesn't work. We need a month where we explain very slowly why Cameron, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Kennedy, Farage et al could so easily have not have been given permission to destroy their countries

It's front pages like this that confirm my commitment to my @privateeyenews.bsky.social subscription 😁

When are big numbers not big numbers?

When they're attached to social housing...

#ukhousing

YouTube video by John Rockley Triggers - turning comms into action.

Trigger warning...

this is a video about how triggers can turn communications into action.

See what I did there?

youtu.be/I3vjaSUyZYg
#comms #pr #learning #contagious

YouTube video by John Rockley 1 in 5 Adults in England Have Low Literacy

I used to hear that the average reading age in the UK is 9 years old. A more accurate figure is that 1 in 5 adults in #England have low #literacy skills.

In #comms we sometimes forget that 20% of our potential audience has issues with our beautiful words...

youtube.com/shorts/dB-7d...

The album cover of headhunters by Herbie Hancock. A yellow and orange musician with a large round mask on, sits playing a keyboard. Four other musicians in blue and purple sit behind them.

Today I am mostly listening to Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters".

It's today's brain soothing music.

YouTube video by John Rockley Why stories are important in business

We are made of stories.

#Communications

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a very large carrot next to a very small carrot.

Winter vs summer?

I am 50.

I still find very big carrots funny.

These were in the same bag from Lidl.

That is all.

As a British "Free With Ads" listener, all I can say @jordanmorris.bsky.social is... I beg your pardon?
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