Narrative Business Storytelling Archives - Page 9 of 10

16 Jul

This blog is part 2 of the Storytelling for Interviews blog series. We recommend that you read Storytelling for Interviews Part 1 of 2 before reading this blog. So far, we have covered the questions that you should prepare for your interview, the types of questions and which broader categories they belong to. In this blog, we will cover HOW TO ANSWER…

14 Jul

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07 Jul

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…

22 Jun

Sales Storytelling on your Feet: Response to a comment

This blog is written as a response to a comment we received on our previous blog Sales Storytelling on your feet. We highly recommend that you read Sales Storytelling on your feet to better understand the content shared in this blog. A couple of few weeks ago we posted a blog titled Sales Storytelling on your Feet. Soon after posting…

11 Jun

Recently I have had the privilege to work with a global organisation for the last five months to institutionalise Storytelling in their company. One of the things we did was regular submission of stories by their sales team that is globally placed to make storytelling a habit for all. A couple of weeks ago one story was submitted which was not used…

09 Jun

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…

29 May

We like to think that when we take medication, it has an unfailing ability to get to where it is required in the body to treat the illness. But do you know, the cells we are trying to treat themselves can block entry to the drug because they think it’s something foreign and potentially harmful. Basically, I don’t know you, I don’t…

17 May

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…

02 Apr

Happy Birthday Apple! We all know Apple as one of the finest technology brands but apart from technology lessons Apple has taught us some psychology lessons too. On Apple’s 38th Birthday today, as a Business of Stories, I want to share one of the best told stories from Steve Jobs that I have enjoyed, learned, applied and benefited from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTf0LmDqKI After watching…

24 Mar

Value Storytelling is same as Living Values

What I want you to do is to go back to how you felt on the first day of your job. You probably felt a mixture of excitement and uncertainty. You would have had an orientation and got to know a lot of exciting things through orientation. One of the topics flashed on the orientation slides would have been ‘Company Values’. You…

Business Storytelling

Storytelling for Interviews Part 2 of 2

Storytelling for Technology led solutions

Storytelling for Interviews Part 1 of 2

Sales Storytelling on your Feet: Response to a comment

Sales Storytelling on your feet

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

Change Management ? Trojan Storytelling Part 1 of 2

Storytelling Techniques for Transforming Presentations Part 3 of 5

Best told stories from Steve Jobs

Value Storytelling is same as Living Values