When one brings up leadership through storytelling, many still scoff at the idea. These naysayers state that a leader should simply deliver cold, hard facts. These people don't consider the other end of the spectrum. As the leader goes on and on, what their audience hears is this: Blah-Blah-Blah. A [...]
You want to know this is why storytelling is important in business? You’re launching a new product in your local market; a brand of cashew nuts that have been ethically sourced from Africa. They taste great, they’re super healthy, and of course they’re ethically sourced as well. But they’re noticeably [...]
Storytelling Skills are essential for the corporate world. We ultimately see individuals rise to the top, not for their technical prowess, but for their ability to influence minds. And there are 3 main storytelling skills that are essential for influencing minds in the corporate world: Relating Challenging Resolving Relate, [...]
How do I become an influential storyteller? In my experience of training storytelling, I have found the power is in the little things; the building blocks that make up every story. The storytelling techniques that bring stories to life. Storytelling techniques are the building blocks of stories But storytelling [...]
Have you ever heard “inspirational” phrases like the following: Believe in yourself Be in the moment Don’t quit Open your mind I’m sure you’ve seen a lot of them. And I’m pretty sure hardly any of them have inspired you to action beyond anything more tham simply nodding your head [...]
You know some things better than other people do. If you’re an accountant then you probably know more about finance than I do. And if you work in marketing then you probably know more about your customers than your company’s engineers do. But at times this presents us with a [...]
We’ve all had the experience of listening to someone speak and feeling like it’s going over our heads. We know they’re talking, and we know they’re talking about something, but for some reason their words seem to go in one ear and come out the other. You’ve probably experienced this [...]