Change Management Storytelling: Words That Matter

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Change Management Storytelling: Words That Matter
Words are not just a mechanism of conveyance. They are a mechanism of influence. Given below are three research based findings from Robert Cialdini’s book Pre- Suasion: A Revolutionary Way To Influence And Persuade that prove that words are a mechanism of influence. 1) WORDS THAT CONNOTE ACHIEVEMENT Studies have shown that subtly exposing individuals to words that connote achievement ( win,…
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Storytelling : Engagement with Mystery Stories

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Storytelling : Engagement with Mystery Stories
Why are some teachers, facilitators or just communicators way better than the others in engaging? Over the years I have gained insights on what makes a classroom experience engaging. Unfortunately, great content on its own rarely works. Engaging communicators use a combination of Great Content + Great Engagement Techniques. Here is one of the trick I use for creating engagement in my …
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Change Management Storytelling: Is Change Assistance a part of your Change story?

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Change Management Storytelling: Is Change Assistance a part of your Change story?
Desired Change rarely takes place by only presenting consequences of not changing or benefits of changing. Effective Change Management Storytelling requires another important element. Robert Cialdini’s book Pre-Suasion informs that as a rule, communications that present the most frightening consequences of poor health habits work better than milder messages or messages that present the positive consequences of good habits. The more prominent…
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Change Management Storytelling: Story of Now Matters?

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Change Management Storytelling: Story of Now Matters?
In Change Management Storytelling talking about how is the current situation is very important. Today, whilst working on Change Management Storytelling Project  I was having a casual conversation with some of the leaders to gain some insights on the project. During this conversation, one of the leader asked me ” why are you so fussed about knowing how are we working now?…
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Why just reading a book rarely works for me ?

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Why just reading a book rarely works for me ?
I am sure I do not need to justify why reading is a great habit but just reading alone rarely works for me. I have been reading for a while now but what I have noticed is that in about 6 months time the book I have already read  becomes new to me. What does that mean?  That means I have forgotten…
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Change Management Storytelling: I gave Incentives and Change implementation failed

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Change Management Storytelling: I gave Incentives and Change implementation failed
Why desired change behaviours should never be incentivised? Last week I was invited to speak on Storytelling for Change at a Learning Festival of an Organisation. I was surprised to notice that the employees upon attending a speaking session were allowed to get a stamp on their Learning Passports and once they had certain numbers of stamps they could win prizes like…
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How the 18 Min Rule of TED Talks influenced my Storytelling Workshops

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How the 18 Min Rule of TED Talks influenced my Storytelling Workshops
Learning from a workshop is not a framework and methodology hoarding exercise. For all my Strategic Storytelling Workshops I suggest tailored content to the key client contact beforehand. I make these suggestions based on audience profiling that I do prior to the workshop. Almost always, my key contact asks me, “Can we cover more content?” For them, the rationale is, it takes…
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