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Lyndall Taylor

Taking the hard work out of working together.

I help growing businesses and their leaders make work feel easier by improving how people communicate, collaborate and get things done.

You've got good people. Everyone's busy. The work is getting done, eventually.

As businesses grow, the informal ways of communicating and working together that once worked don't keep up. And before you know it, everyone is working that little bit harder, but output is somehow slower.

The founder is still the default escalation point

Too many questions, decisions and approvals still move upwards, keeping senior people in the middle of work the team should be able to progress.

Decisons are slower or keep circling back

The same decisions keep being revisited because ownership, authority or next steps are not clear enough for people to move forward with confidence.

More meetings. Somehow, less clarity

More conversations are happening, but they are not always leading to clearer priorities, decisions or action.

Everyone's busy, but who's doing what?

Roles may be defined on paper, but in practice, responsibility, accountability and handover points have become blurred.

Capacity is stretched, but not always visible

People are carrying full workloads, but the pressure is not always visible until deadlines slip, tension rises or work quietly gets absorbed.

Everyone is feeling the strain, but unable to name it

Things are getting done, but they often take more chasing, clarifying, repeating and emotional labour than they should.

What's really happening

Good people shouldn't have to work this hard to work together.

Most growing businesses don't intentionally design how communication works.

It evolves. Around the people, the personalities, the tools, the deadlines and whatever gets the job done.

And for a while, that works just fine.

Until the team grows, responsibilities change, decisions become more complex and everyone starts relying on the same few people to keep things moving.

That's when the unnecessary work creeps in.

The extra meetings. The endless follow-ups. The conversations that should have happened three weeks ago. The decisions that keep coming back.

And the quiet frustration of knowing there must be an easier way.

There usually is.

Because communication influences almost everything about how we work together. How we make decisions, manage expectations, share information, navigate disagreements and support each other to do good work.

When we improve the way communication works, we can remove a surprising amount of unnecessary effort from everyone's day.

And that's where I come in.

the transformation

Imagine if working together felt a whole lot easier.

How we work together

What's really happening

Less time chasing information and following people up.

Fewer meetings that could have been an email (or better still, didn't need to happen at all).

Decisions that actually get made and stay made.

People who know what's expected of them, who to speak to and where to find what they need.

Leaders who can lead without having to be across every little thing.

And teams that can have the conversations they need to have, before small issues become big ones.

That's what better workplace communication makes possible.

And when work flows more easily, the benefits extend well beyond everyone's to-do list.

You'll feel it in your culture, your employee experience, your team's capacity and ultimately, your business performance.

How we work together

Different challenges. Same goal. Making work easier.

Whether it's the way information moves through your business, the conversations your leaders are avoiding or the everyday frustrations slowing your team down, better communication can make a big difference.

I work with growing organisations and their people to improve how they communicate, collaborate and get things done. Here's how we can work together.

Find out what's making work harder

For leaders and teams who want more confident conversations and stronger working relationships.

Identify the communication habits, gaps and bottlenecks creating unnecessary work across your organisation.

Walk away with clear priorities and a practical plan to make things run more smoothly.

Find out more about the Workplace Communication Health Check below.


Make the way you work together work better

For organisations that know communication isn’t working, but aren’t sure where it’s getting stuck.

 

Move beyond identifying the problems and start changing how work gets done.

Together, we’ll improve communication practices, decision-making and team routines to create clarity without unnecessary complexity.

Learn more about the Team Communication Reset below.
 

Give your people the skills to work better together

For businesses ready to fix recurring frustrations and make everyday work flow better.

Practical, engaging training that helps leaders and teams communicate with confidence, navigate tricky conversations, manage competing demands and build better working relationships.

 

 

 

 

 

 

my approach

Better communication. Less complication.

Sometimes the issue is how work is organised.

Sometimes it’s a conversation nobody wants to have.

And quite often, it’s a bit of both.

That’s why I look at communication from two angles: how it works across the business, and how people communicate with each other every day.

By addressing both, we can make working together easier, without introducing a whole new layer of complexity.


Hi, I'm Lyndall

And I have a bit of a thing about making work harder than it needs to be.

Especially when the people involved are perfectly capable, genuinely trying their best and still spending far too much time chasing answers, navigating confusion and having the same conversations over and over.

I’ve spent more than 20 years working across internal communication, consulting, marketing and workplace training, and one thing I’ve learned is just how much the way we communicate influences the way we work.

From the big organisational decisions to the small everyday conversations, communication can either make things easier or create a whole lot of unnecessary work.

I help organisations and their people find better ways to communicate, collaborate and get things done.

Because good work shouldn’t have to feel so hard.

Surely work doesn't have to be this hard?

If your team is spending more time chasing, clarifying and working around problems than you'd like, let's talk about what could make things easier. Sometimes a fresh perspective is all it takes to see where things could work better.