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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Change Management Storytelling? Don’t Tell, just demonstrate Part 2 of 2

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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…
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Storytelling Techniques for Transforming Presentations Part 3 of 5

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Storytelling Techniques for Transforming Presentations Part 3 of 5
This is our 3rd blog on Storytelling Techniques for Transforming Presentations For those who have missed Part 1 and Part 2, the questions I answer in Storytelling Techniques for Transforming Presentations blog series are  questions I have been asked by clients. So, this blog series is a curation of answers to those questions. In this blog we will answer only 1…
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Storytelling Techniques For Transforming Presentations Part 2 of 5

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Storytelling Techniques For Transforming Presentations Part 2 of 5
This is part 2 of our Storytelling Techniques for Transforming Presentations Blog series. In Part 1 of this blog series, we answered questions that generally run through our minds even before we start putting our presentations together. In this blog, we share some learnings which are centered around delivering the story. I have yet to come across any literature on Storytelling that…
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