Storytelling with Pattern Matching : A Shortcut

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Storytelling with Pattern Matching : A Shortcut
Storytelling with Pattern matching is a shortcut to a desired outcome. There is a company with a staff strength of 10,500 employees. The company introduces a CRM system change. Leadership team wants to convince each and every staff  that the change is good for them. The change promises efficiency. Expensive and arduous efforts to convince everyone begin. At the end of the…
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Storytelling: After all, the first “computers” wore skirts.

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Storytelling: After all, the first “computers” wore skirts.
If you tell a semiconductor factory supervisor that soon there will be robots working in the factory, the first question that cross his/her mind will be, “What will happen to my job?” As an answer, what if you could shift into Storytelling gears and tell Katherine Johnson’s Story. In the early decades of the 1900s, mathematical and technical calculations were made manually,…
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Storytelling: Credible but Cold

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Storytelling: Credible but Cold
Before I begin, a disclaimer. We have used a video produced by KPMG as an example to bring the point we want to make via this blog to life. We lack context, it was not made for an audience like us. We are not even sharing our views on making this video better but simply using the information in the video to…
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Storytelling: Struggling with Building Rapport

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Storytelling: Struggling with Building Rapport
A few weeks ago, a very keen learner asked a question, “I am posted out to Europe to take on a role as a representative of my organisation there. I am looking forward to it but here is a little something that is bothering me. The person who will be my assistant not only has more experience in the job but also…
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Deep Work : Who will thrive ?

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Deep Work : Who will thrive ?
“The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.”  – Deep Work, page 14 What we call work is often made up of shallow tasks like meetings,…
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Data Storytelling: Your Internal Presentation Culture – is it a Doctor’s Clinic or Courtroom?

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Data Storytelling: Your Internal Presentation Culture – is it a Doctor’s Clinic or Courtroom?
In my previous blog on Data Storytelling, I suggested that in the absence of an insight, a Data Analyst should be a Questionologist. In this blog, I want to share the vital role that an audience plays in generating what we all want from Data….Insights. Firstly, I would highly recommend that we take the time to reflect upon our respective Internal Presentations…
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Productivity Storytelling : Winners Incite winning

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Productivity Storytelling : Winners Incite winning
We are always finding ways to increase Productivity. Many solutions to increasing productivity come in the form of tools and technology. However, in one of my previous blogs Productivity Storytelling I have suggested the importance of mental productivity and how storytelling has a role to play in it. In this blog, I am focussing on Visual Storytelling that increases Mental Productivity. Here …
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