Archive for 2008

Social media demands honesty

Posted by  Mark Schenk —September 12, 2008
Filed in Anecdotes, Leadership Posts

I spent a fair bit of Thursday at the Melcrum Strategic Communications Summit in Sydney, where one of our clients was presenting on the use …

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Context is king

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 10, 2008
Filed in Culture, Selling

In case there are still people out there who believe we act as rational decision makers, take this scenario. You’re in a shop to buy …

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Narrative-based Change Management

Posted by  chandni —September 9, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

Our new workshop now has a new name. We’re calling it Putting Stories to Work: Delivering meaningful Change and Engagement What managers need today is …

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Storytelling as a study technique

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 9, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

A few posts ago I described one of the reasons why stories are memorable: they evoke emotion. But stories are also memoriable because they create …

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Finding stories

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 8, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

Tell stories to hear stories Listen to stories to remember your stories Mark and I penned these observations while developing our course on storytelling. The …

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Seven personal skills for effective collaboration

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 3, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

It’s easy to talk about what collaboration is or is not or the types of collaboration. What’s difficult is to change your practices (read behaviours) …

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Storytelling for business leaders workshop in Melbourne—23 September

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 3, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

This workshop has turned out to be one of our most popular offerings. In the last few months we have delivered it to sales people …

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Emotion, memory and stories

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 3, 2008
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling

Do you remember where you were when you first saw the those two jumbo jets plunge into the World Trade Center? How well do you …

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A new workshop, but what should we call it?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 31, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

Many of you will be familiar with our business narrative workshop. It’s a one day event where we cover how to find anecdotes in an …

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Aphorisms we should dismiss in the face of complexity

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 23, 2008
Filed in Communication

Life’s little sayings have a big impact on how we think. A stitch in time saves nine. A bird in the hand is worth two …

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