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…
What do you do when your Change Management Process and Strategy start to derail?
Recently, I had an opportunity to work with a leading Telecommunications company in curating* a Change Story as one of the key strategies of their major IT Change Management Plan.
My task was to
1. Curate the Change Story involving 9 Business Divisions involving conversations with over 100…
This article was originally published on Huffington Post on 29 January, 2017
Recently I have been scripting and directing corporate videos. For me when I storytell with videos as a medium, the task is – In 2.5 mins unlike a standard corporate commercial, tell a real human story which makes people say – “ I can connect with that and want that…
When Storytelling is done: How to handle questions that you don’t have the answer for ?
This blog is for you if you fear being asked a question to which you do not have an answer. Firstly, I want you to accept that you will always have questions to which you will not have an answer. But the purpose of this 400…
Change Management Storytelling requires more than just Conventional Business Rhetoric.
This blog is for you if you are of an opinion that persuading people to change on an intellectual basis is enough.
I recently worked with a prominent IT company where the brief was to develop a Change Management Narrative to manage significant changes that were being implemented within the business.
On…