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…

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…

Change Management Storytelling? Don’t Tell, just demonstrate Part 2 of 2
You are responsible for leading a change management project and you believe in that change. Carol Dweck, a researcher at Stanford University describes this belief as a Growth mindset. Contrary to your Growth Mindset, there are people with a Fixed Mindset who don’t believe in the change you wish to implement and are surreptitiously second-guessing and undermining everything you are…