Business Storytelling

Nujeen, Head of Department for a Pharmaceutical Company, was asked in a Gender Diversity panel discussion, “Do you see more mothers joining the workforce in your industry?” As an answer, Nujeen can respond in the following ways: 1. Yes, I do 2. Yes, in fact seven of our department heads are women who are also mothers. 3. Yes, most definitely. Things have…

If you tell a semiconductor factory supervisor that soon there will be robots working in the factory, the first question that cross his/her mind will be, “What will happen to my job?” As an answer, what if you could shift into Storytelling gears and tell Katherine Johnson’s Story. In the early decades of the 1900s, mathematical and technical calculations were made manually,…

Business Storytelling and where the focus should be I give talks on Storytelling regularly and sometimes I am introduced as a Master Storyteller. I often grind my teeth when I hear that because if I am called a Master Storyteller, then I have actually failed as a Business Storyteller. What am I going on about? The idea here is that unlike in…

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…

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…