Narrative Storytelling in Sales, Presentation Skills, Narrative Medicine

17 Mar

Change Management Storytelling: How I made my post workshop learning better?

Telling someone to change is one thing and teaching them how to change is another. At the end of a my Storytelling Workshops there are two types of inner dialogues that take place. My inner dialogue is,”I hope the participants change the way they communicate” and participant’s inner dialogue is “this time I am really going to change” My inner dialogue…

16 Mar

A speaker is often asked, “Can I have your powerpoint presentation slides?” I speak on Storytelling at least once a month and I am yet to come across a time when I was not asked, “Can I have your Power Point Presentation Slides?” What is my response? “My slides are pictures with a few words on it. They have no meaning without…

14 Mar

Storytelling Practice and what bugs me about it Part 2

Storytelling and Techniques to Practice. In my last blog, I wrote about two insights on Practice. In this blog I want to focus only on one insight which I discovered via reading Angela Duckworth’s book Grit : The Power of Passion and Perseverance Which type of Practice is a good predictor of skills development? Practicing alone is a much better predictor…

13 Mar

Storytelling Practice and what bugs me about it…

Storytelling and Techniques on Practice Sue, Director of Quality Management at a MNC attends a workshop on Storytelling. Loves the workshop and remembers that one of thing that will make her good at Storytelling is Post Workshop Practice. Right after the workshop she is determined to Practice. Weeks go by and Sue is struggling to find time to Practice. Actually, it is …

12 Mar

Change Management and it’s relationship with Emotions

Change is accepted when you are emotionally invested in it For anyone who is a parent, having a child was perhaps one of the biggest change you have experienced. Yet, we love our children, look after them, want the best for them and never ever feel the lack of motivation to change ourselves for their best. The same is not true for…

11 Mar

The role of Emotion in Sales Storytelling A couple of years ago I had just finished running a Storytelling Workshop for a multinational computer technology corporation when I felt rather disappointed with the outcome. The client was happy but I was not. Why? Because one of the participants actually cried whilst delivering a story, and that to me was not the desired…

10 Mar

Change Management Storytelling: Why being Happy Feet with Change is a better Strategy

Change Management Storytelling and why how we position it matters. In my recent work in Change Management Storytelling I have noticed that most leaders start talking about change like this. ” I am really sorry that we are changing the way we do ticketing” ” I am sorry we have to put you through yet another change ” ” The new change…

09 Mar

Storytelling : Tell a Story to Share Knowledge & Inspire

Storytelling is not only an inspiring but also a great knowledge sharing tool. Here is one of my favourite story from the Healthcare Environment *Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, 1990’s. A nurse has been watching a newborn for several hours. Suddenly, the baby turns dark blue, almost black. The medical team immediately calls for a doctor and a radiologist and prepare to intervene,…

08 Mar

Data Storytelling: This is the problem and This is the solution

Data Storytelling and a mistake we often make. Less than 7 years ago, a Managing Director of a business retrieves data for the last 5 year’s sales revenue. He calls his team and shows them that in Year 1 and Year 2 they performed exceptionally well. In Year 3, the revenue dropped a little and in Year 4 and Year 5, it…

06 Mar

Personal Value Storytelling: Let us go around the table and Introduce ourselves

Introducing ourselves at a Boardroom Table especially when our bosses are seated at the same table is nothing but stressful. So, the easiest thing to do is to be safe and say something like this. “My name is Sania and I am the Director of Healthcare Innovation.” Now, this is a safe introduction and granted no one will raise eye brows at…

Narrative Storytelling Blog

Change Management Storytelling: How I made my post workshop learning better?

Can I have your Power Point Presentation Slides?

Storytelling Practice and what bugs me about it Part 2

Storytelling Practice and what bugs me about it…

Change Management and it’s relationship with Emotions

Sales Storytelling: Are you Faking it?

Change Management Storytelling: Why being Happy Feet with Change is a better Strategy

Storytelling : Tell a Story to Share Knowledge & Inspire

Data Storytelling: This is the problem and This is the solution

Personal Value Storytelling: Let us go around the table and Introduce ourselves