Archive for the ‘Business storytelling’ Category

Awesome stories

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 12, 2013
Filed in Business storytelling, Fun

Every two months an email arrives that I am always happy to receive. Its the bi-monthly newsletter from the Awesome Stories website. Awesome Stories is …

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In praise of small stories

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 11, 2013
Filed in Business storytelling

Leaders should find and tell stories to help their people understand the concrete actions needed to get a job done, enact a business value or …

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Challenging ‘power’ and the stories that triggers

Posted by  Kevin Bishop —March 8, 2013
Filed in Business storytelling, Leadership Posts

A particular type of story that gets retold in organisations is the story about when ‘power’ was challenged and the result. We collected the following …

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Practical application of business storytelling

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 5, 2013
Filed in Business storytelling, Leadership Posts

I was asked last week about the practical application of things we cover in our Storytelling for Leaders workshop. Fortunately, we had a very recent …

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Bringing strategy alive with an anecdote

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 2, 2013
Filed in Business storytelling, Strategy

Herb Kelleher [the longest-serving CEO of Southwest] once told someone, “I can teach you the secret to running this airline in thirty seconds. This is …

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Story-triggering and behavioural integrity

Posted by  Kevin Bishop —February 27, 2013
Filed in Business storytelling, Employee Engagement, Leadership Posts

People judge their leaders by how their actions align with their words. And how aligned these two things are then triggers stories that get told, …

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Story quote of the week

Posted by  Daryl Cook —February 22, 2013
Filed in Business storytelling

Storytelling for Sales – First ever public workshop (Melbourne, 20th March 2013)

Posted by  Kevin Bishop —February 18, 2013
Filed in Business storytelling, News

We are all looking for better ways to sell. Better ways to build relationships with our clients. Better ways to understand their needs. Better ways …

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