When you tell familiar professional stories you fall into a trap clients set for you. First, your familiar professional story makes you sound like everyone else. As a result, clients categorize you as: The Same as Everyone Else. Current and prospective clients look for interesting and engaging professional stories. Stories which differentiate the value you… [Continue Reading]
Familiar Professional Stories are neither Interesting nor Engaging
Use Story Connection Strategy to Engage Employees and Clients
Story connection strategy is a compelling way to engage colleagues. Yet, this strategy is underutilized. Mostly because you are storytelling uncomfortable, aren’t you? As a result, you avoid incorporating your own story into investor pitches. Or, job interviews, conference presentations, grant applications, engineering RFPs and RFQs. Consequently, you are disappointed when employees and clients do… [Continue Reading]
Are You practicing HR Storytelling Diversity and Inclusion?
Creating and implementing an HR storytelling diversity and inclusion strategy is mission-critical. Especially for employee and client retention: Today, Tomorrow and in the Future. First, because Today’s Internet of Things (IoT), Fourth Industrial Revolution workplaces are extremely complex. Next, these workplaces are a dynamic intersection of people, processes, software and hardware. Then, it is very… [Continue Reading]
What is Next for Your 2020 Storytelling Strategy?
Your 2020 storytelling strategy offers three choices. Either you choose to: Play it safe. Tell a complacent, risk-free story. And continue to provide products and services which have sold in the past, using your original skill sets and tool kits, doing things exactly the way you originally learned to do them: Yesterday; or Make a… [Continue Reading]
3 Reasons to hit Your Professional Storytelling Reset Button
Hitting your professional storytelling reset button is an essential component for professional and workforce development, as well as business growth. Because this exercise requires you to consider how you deliver value to others, instead of focusing on yourself. Whether you hit this reset button once a year, or continuously throughout the year, reflect on whether… [Continue Reading]
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