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Anecdote is holding a public Storytelling for Leaders® program in Zurich on Friday 12th February 2016. Details and booking information can be found here.

It’s that time of year again. As we slide headlong into the festive season, we’d like to say Merry Christmas to you all from everyone in the Anecdote team.

Are you sending non-urgent emails out of hours, forgetting to attach attachments or making other simple email mistakes? Then these plugins are for you.

Is effective business storytelling a natural talent that is only available to the gifted few? Or is it really about a program of deliberate practice?

As many as 80% of companies do not really understand their strategies. Obviously, this is a big problem. How can strategic stories help?

How do you apply the power of storytelling to pitching big ideas? Here are three ways to improve your sales pitch that might make all the difference.

If you assert something as a fact less than half of the people listening will believe you. How do you make sure people know you are telling the truth?

There is a big difference between assertions and stories. Most business talk is full of assertions but they are hard to remember. There is a better way.

Achieving strategic clarity is harder than it might seem. Having a concrete story explaining what you want to achieve and why is paramount. Find out how:

Physical cues to detect lies have a fairly high failure rate. Find out how to detect lies a lot more accurately using a storytelling technique.