Developing strategic storytelling soft skills is a powerful component of developing leadership skills. Do you currently leave storytelling, and your leadership soft skills, in the hands of other internal or external resources? Or, are you accountable for developing and implementing this skill set, yourself? After a while, it becomes difficult remembering which stories you are… [Continue Reading]
Strategic Storytelling Soft Skills are Powerful Skills
2 Reasons Your Shallow Why Story does not convince Anyone
Telling a shallow Why story falls short of hitting the mark. First, in convincing clients to initially do business with you. Then, in assuring clients about the value of continuing to do business with you. Finally, in attracting employees, with solid and deep professional stories, to work for you. Telling shallow stories does not fool… [Continue Reading]
Are You telling a Strategic Why Story or just a Tactical One?
A strategic why story is an invitation to connect the dots. First, not only in terms of professional relationships between you and your co-workers, colleagues, employer, clients. But also in terms of cultural connectivity. Then, deep dive into the strategic human capital value of employee experiences, as well as customer experiences, which are created when… [Continue Reading]
The What You Do Story is Key to Retaining Clients
Developing a What You Do Story is critical to serving and retaining internal and external clients. When you connect the story of what you “do,” inside the organization, to what everyone else “does,” something interesting happens. First, you start to better serve one another. Because your own responsibility and accountability now extends beyond the confines… [Continue Reading]
Why is Your Job Title Your Entire Professional Story?
When your job title becomes your entire professional story, you feel your title “speaks for itself.” That the professional title on your business card, your e-signature, on your name plate, conveys an entire explanation of who you are, what you do and how you create value for colleagues and clients. Job titles are a bunch… [Continue Reading]
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