Bryan Stevenson’s TED talk a great example of Storytelling

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Bryan Stevenson’s TED talk a great example of Storytelling
I have recently been working with TEDx Singapore to convert the selected speakers’ ideas into stories. In preparation for the sessions with the speakers, I looked at many successful TED talks and I read Talk like Ted by Carmine Gallo. Through this research I gained some fantastic insights that I wanted to share on one of the talks that was rated as…
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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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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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