Bryan Stevenson’s TED talk a great example of Storytelling

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Bryan Stevenson’s TED talk a great example of Storytelling
I have recently been working with TEDx Singapore to convert the selected speakers’ ideas into stories. In preparation for the sessions with the speakers, I looked at many successful TED talks and I read Talk like Ted by Carmine Gallo. Through this research I gained some fantastic insights that I wanted to share on one of the talks that was rated as…
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Storytelling for Interviews Part 1 of 2

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Storytelling for Interviews Part 1 of 2
Recently, I had the opportunity to deliver a session on Organisational Storytelling to post graduate students of one of Singapore’s most reputed universities. Over these two days of engagement, the students and I worked on lots of scenarios, like communicating your idea to investors, presenting with stories, making a case using stories, and so on.  At one stage over the two…
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Perfect number of Strategic Priorities

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Perfect number of Strategic Priorities
A couple of months ago I was working with a senior female executive working for a multinational organization and my task for the project was to coach her for an upcoming internal interview. We were focussed on building a capability to story tell on her feet. At one stage of the coaching we were working on a narrative on strategic priorities of…
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Don’t want to get sued? Change your tone.

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Don’t want to get sued? Change your tone.
Very interesting research on the connection between a surgeon’s tone of voice and their likelihood of having been sued for malpractice in an article titled, Surgeon’s Tone of Voice: A Clue to Malpractice history. (Surgery Ambady et al 9 Volume 132, Number 1). Here is a summary of their methods and findings. Methods: We examined the relationship between surgeons’ voice tone during…
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