“They won’t care what you know until they know that you care” (a line attributed to many but my favourite is baseball coach Yogi Berra). This week I received an email from a newly minted executive who was off to New Zealand to take up a new post. Let’s call her Sarah. Sarah had attended […]

In September this year our new partner in Singapore, Anjali Sharma, organised the first Storytelling for Leaders Program in her fine country. She also organised a photographer and videographer and put together this short clip showing you what happened on the day.

We’ve been blogging since 2004. And over the years we have shared hundreds of stories. Some of those stories are definitely ones you could retell as a leader so we have identified the best ones, tagged them with what we think they are about and highlighted the story in the  post so you can quickly […]

When business leaders start building their business storytelling skills it can help a lot to see how other business leaders tell business stories. Here are 9 examples from some of the world’s top business leaders who purposely and systematically share stories to help their message to stick. You might like to review our guide to […]

To really unlock the power of storytelling, you need to Be Specific with the stories that you tell. Last week I was working with a group of bank managers in one of our Storytelling for Leaders programs. We were showing them how the Influence Story pattern can be used to help overcome entrenched positions and tackle anti-stories. […]

The ability to spot an oral story is THE key to effective story-work. You only get the benefits of storytelling if you’re telling a story. This knowledge alone will set you apart from all the people who are merely talking about stories but not telling any. Just this week, for example, I bumped into one […]

We’re excited to announce that we’ll be running our popular Storytelling for Leaders program in Sydney on Thursday 28th November 2013. The workshop gets rave reviews from participants and our Net Promoter Score (NPS) for the past 12 months is +79 (if you are not familiar with NPS, +100 is the maximum possible score and […]

John Hagel is a highly influential business thought leader. He heads up a think tank for Deloitte Touche in the USA and has written some terrific books such as the Power of Pull. Senior leaders listen to John and he’s in the privileged position to introduce new ideas, such as corporate narrative, to boardrooms around […]

When leaders first learn about business storytelling quite often their first instinct is to write their stories down, in full with all the flourish they hope to convey in the retelling. This is a mistake. You see, each time you tell an oral story it’s done in a specific context and, in the case of […]

The art of business storytelling is all about practice. Here are seven practical things you can do to improve your business storytelling. Never mention the ‘s’ word, as in ‘I have a story I would like to share …’ Instead, just launch into the story, starting with a sentence that helps people understand why they […]