Video Storytelling for Corporates
Recently, I was asked by a client, “So, what do you keep in mind when you develop a Story?” It was an interesting question that led me to write down points, which I believe are the reasons behind why my clients returned and gave me the opportunity to do some sensational video storytelling work in Singapore, Vietnam, China,…
A great example of Change Management Storytelling
Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo Chairman and CEO is asked about Change in an interview with Doug McMillon Walmart President and CEO.
What we are use to is a response that sounds something like this ” Change is hard, you have employees to please, investors to please and the pace of the change is just unmanageable ”…
Learning and Development and its sour relationship with cost cutting.
” Sorry Anjali, the business priority is else where at the moment. So, all learning and development initiatives are on hold’
” When we get busy learning and development is the first to get out of our agenda”
These are just a couple of sentences I have heard in the recent past…
Change Management Storytelling can derail due to the use of word Change
I am working with a group of Healthcare Practitioners on Change Management Storytelling
The Change is, we will now work with new hospitals in our cluster and share resources.
Almost, each one of them is starting the Change Narrative with the saying something like this
We know Change is hard…
Change Management Storytelling is about Changing Stories of individuals.
Change management is defined like this – It is the discipline that guides how we prepare, equip and support individuals to successfully adopt change in order to drive organizational success and outcomes.
I personally do not agree with this definition because the conventional approach to change management does not take in to account…
Change Management needs more than a knowledge dump.
This is about that little insight I had in managing a successful Change Management Storytelling Programme and for anyone who is about to manage change here is my insight for you.
A typical change project is managed like this, you put together a pretty power point filled with slides and you start the “Change…
Practical Tip on how to Start a Story
In my Storytelling Trainings and Workshops I often ask the participants, “What are the two most common ways we start a story when we tell stories to children?”. The response I get is, Once upon a Time and Long Long time ago.
Yes, that is correct and those are the two types of time…
Sales Storytelling: Pitching not just In Person but via Email, Twitter and with One Word
I read Daniel Pink’s book To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, a couple of years ago and one of my favourite chapter in the book is on Pitching. This chapters explores 6 effective ways to pitch along with examples
You can watch…
Sales Storytelling : The Elevator Pitch has the wrong focus. The focus on time is so great that we forget to get our message across.
Less than 5 years ago, I was a Business Director of a leading global Marketing Group. One day my boss said, “We have to work on our elevator pitch.” My response, ” Why do we need an…
The rising obsession with methods, frameworks and methodologies is rotting the Learning Culture. Perhaps it is time for Learning Culture Change.
For the longest time I looked for blogs, articles and books that could teach me a method, structure, pattern or a framework of doing something that interests me. For example a method to craft a story. However, recently I have formed…