Archive for the ‘Business storytelling’ Category

The Power of the Short Story

Posted by  Kevin Bishop —April 27, 2011
Filed in Business storytelling

“I only have a few minutes to get my message across, I just haven’t got time to tell a story.” This is a comment we …

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Announcing the New York Storytelling for Business Leaders workshop

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 26, 2011
Filed in Business storytelling, News

    Event Registration Online for Storytelling for Business Leaders – New York    

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The essentials of business storytelling – slide share

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 17, 2011
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication

The Essentials of Business Storytelling View more presentations from Shawn Callahan

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Curing story blindness: building essential story skills

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 29, 2011
Filed in Business storytelling

For the past two years Shawn and I have deliberately ignored Dave Snowden’s regular pot-shots at our work and maintained the civility that we think …

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True importance

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 24, 2011
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling, Leadership Posts

This story was told the other day by General David Petraeus (The head of all international forces in Afghanistan) just before a press conference illustrating …

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TheStoryTest–build your skill in spotting stories

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 20, 2011
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling

We developed TheStoryTest.com to help you build your skill to identify stories. Quite frankly it’s hard to be a good storyteller if you can’t tell …

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Using Concrete and Specific Examples

Posted by  Kevin Bishop —March 9, 2011
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication, Strategy

One of the basic requirements for any form of successful communication is the listener understands what’s being said. However we often face the challenge when …

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How to connect with the “I’m Like You” story

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 1, 2011
Filed in Business storytelling

Annette Simmons says that there are some story types you just should know and be able to tell, namely: Who am I? and Why am …

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A teaching story

Posted by  Mark Schenk —February 23, 2011
Filed in Business storytelling

We are always on the lookout for good stories. I found this one today on the PassionHR list on YahooGroups: As she stood in front …

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Stories Are All Around Us

Posted by  Kevin Bishop —February 18, 2011
Filed in Business storytelling

I am constantly surprised of the most unlikely places and situations where you hear great stories. Last weekend the family and I were over in …

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