How good are you at telling your own professional story?
First, do you rely on your job titles, academic degrees, your linear progress up the promotional food chain of an organization as proof of your story? Customers may not have a clue what any of these accomplishments signify, for them.
Then, is the story you tell customers all about your organization’s business or use cases? When what your customers really want to learn more about is you. Not your organization’s products and services.
Or, have you taken the time to explore your professional story? Because colleagues and clients do business with you because of what you, and only you, bring to their table. Consistently, confidently and remarkably.
Do you know what is needed to start telling your professional story more compellingly?
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I offer these six blog posts to get you thinking about your professional story, differently. You bring a remarkable gift to your clients: you. Except that, far too often, our own story becomes secondary to whatever company we work for or the products and services we sell. Your professional story is about you, regardless of your current employer or whatever it is you sell, service or engineer. Read on.
The Cost of Performing Functionally but not Purposefully
6 Professional Development Targets to hit each Month
3 Reasons Storytelling Skepticism creates Decision Making Mistrust
Why Our Professional Spiel falls short on Credibility and Buy In
Why Your Business Cases fall short of telling the Entire Story
Why Professional Terminology gets in the Way Professionally
Take the next steps towards telling your professional story.
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Babette Ten Haken’s One Millimeter Mindset™ Storytelling for STEM Professionals and Left Brain Thinkers speaking programs and workshops are created for organizations and associations, like yours, who want to catalyze employee stakeholder success and customer retention. There is no better way than storytelling to bridge communication disconnects between professional disciplines, pay grades, generations and levels of education. Babette gets everyone to where they need to go. Together!
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