Archive for the ‘Employee Engagement’ Category
Using progress stories to build hope
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication, Employee Engagement
When managers are asked how they engage their employees, highlighting progress is rarely mentioned. But this can make a big difference to productivity.
Read MoreWhat is your Response Story?
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication, Employee Engagement
No matter what you’ve decided to do in response to COVID-19, the key step will be communicating your decisions clearly and influentially. You need to find and craft your Response Story. In this post, we explain how.
Read More056 – No flies on Golding mock trial
Filed in Communication, Employee Engagement, Insight, Podcast
Did you experience something at high school that you will remember forever? Listen to hear a group of high school students’ invaluable experience!
Read More031 – Charles Masefield on humility and productivity
Filed in Business storytelling, Employee Engagement, Podcast
Sir Charles Masefield describes the series of events by which, under his leadership, BAE Systems’ worst performing factory became their best. Continuing to share stories …
Read MoreCreating powerful moments to trigger stories in the workplace
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication, Employee Engagement, Insight
We recently began an Anecdote book club for the office. For our first book, we read The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary …
Read MoreStorytelling tips you can try: Do you get in the wheelbarrow with your team?
Jean-Francois Gravelet was famous for tight-rope walking over the Niagara Falls in the late 1800s. This story was inspired by these amazing feats: Upon completing …
Read MoreTell me a story: How accountants can harness the power of storytelling
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication, Culture, Employee Engagement
The numbers tell the story. At least, that’s what many accountants would have us believe. “Accountants are so used to talking in numbers, we forget …
Read MoreBook Review of Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Filed in Collaboration, Communication, Culture, Employee Engagement
We were about 20 years too early. Back then, my group at IBM extolled the benefits of understanding organisations as complex systems – ones where …
Read MoreThe Value of Stories in Successful Project Delivery
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership Posts
It’s important to keep a project’s business case up-to-date throughout its life, so that the project keeps delivering value to the organisation. Stories can be …
Read MoreHow management by wandering around (MBWA) helps with change management
When I was doing my first degree back in the late 1970s, one of the very important – and simple – techniques for being a …
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