Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category

Taking on new tasks

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 20, 2007
Filed in Communication, Culture

A few posts ago I described how you can delegate tasks in a way that informs people with what they need to know to do …

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Staff induction or orientation

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 11, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication, Culture

I might have mentioned a few posts ago that we are currently helping a government department develop a staff induction program for their Aboriginal employees. …

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Staff induction – it’s just learning

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 27, 2007
Filed in Culture, Employee Engagement

The way you enter an organisation has a big impact on how you perceive the place you work. The recruitment process (really part of staff …

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The need for walls?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 13, 2007
Filed in Communication, Culture

Dave Snowden is puzzled with one of my posts that mentions Frost’s poem, Mending Wall, when I say: “when you read the entire poem (in context) you …

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Assessing the impact of arseholes

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 25, 2007
Filed in Culture

Bob Sutton is on a campaign against workplace arseholes. In yesterday’s post he describes Rob Cross’ work on social network analysis. In particular he looks …

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Stop trying to solve the problem

Posted by  Mark Schenk —January 3, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling, Culture

Early last year Shawn and I delivered a workshop on narrative techniques in Hong Kong for a group of Masters students who were engaged in …

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The new science of change

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 26, 2006
Filed in Culture

I enjoyed reading this article this morning on some of the neuroscience behind change and some of the practical approaches you might adopt armed with …

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The 5 ways storytelling has been discouraged in organisations

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —September 27, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling, Culture

Following on from our last research findings post suggesting the 7 story forms valued within organisations we have also explored the flip side question of “when has storytelling been discouraged …

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The 7 story forms valued within organisations

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —September 26, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling, Culture

“When is storytelling valued within your organisation?” was one of the questions we explored within our Australian wide survey on awareness and attitudes of story and narrative techniques …

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Compromise for breakfast

Posted by  Mark Schenk —September 2, 2006
Filed in Culture

Seth Godin relates a story about breakfast on his blog. Except its not about breakfast but about how compromise insidiously erodes your intent and how …

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