We have all been graded, rated and ranked. Coached, screened and scored. What I am always confused about this process is, how does it help us become better?
After years of frustration with the grading in Feedback Forms and Performance Management Reviews I have finally been able to work out what is wrong about the way we give feedback at work and…
A couple of weeks ago I worked with a leading technology company on Business Storytelling. I gave a 90 min talk in which I shared some basic principles of Business Storytelling. After my talk the audiences had to take an existing case study they had and convert that in to a story.
I heard story after story. Despite an amazing effort by…
I am watching a video of Devon Bieling a young woman from Atlanta who rolls her way past the finish line after collapsing just 12 yards before finishing Tunnel Vision Marathon in North Bend, Washington.
As I watch this video I am thinking of a word, Effort.
Effort is a meaningful word with hardly any thought given to it in our privileged…
+These are some small businesses that became big and they have somethings in common.
Built into thier marketing is a promise: a promise that you’ll deliver something desirable. And your customers often pay with their attention, trust, or credit cards before they know for sure if your product or service is what they need or want.
Sometimes this promise is stated to…
I have a question. No, I don’t need you to give me an answer but just answer it to yourself.
When was the last time you gave generous feedback on a feedback form? If your answer is recently or always or even sometime ago, you are rare and a minority.
The problem is feedback forms are not designed to demonstrate generosity. Generosity,…
If you conduct meetings with senior business leaders with an objective of getting approval on key messages for important internal and external comms, then this blog is for you.
In the coming weeks I may have to meet senior business leaders of a semiconductor factory to take them through a story that their leadership team and I have worked on in a…
I work with corporate professionals on Business Storytelling. So naturally, I get to hear a lot of stories.
However, sometimes I come across a business story that tells me a lot about the teller. This happens because an incident being narrated exposes the entire fabric of the storyteller’s character. I will share one of these stories with you. This story was told…