Leveraging an HR storytelling strategy in your company reinforces legacy mindset or promotes a culture of communication and collaboration. The difference in outcomes reflects whether you, as an HR Professional of Worth, perceive yourself as a compliance regulator or an HR innovator. Where do you fit into this continuum? Creating an HR storytelling strategy moves… [Continue Reading]
Is Your HR Storytelling Strategy targeting Compliance or Creativity?
Do Your Data-Driven “Me” Stories Intimidate rather than Engage?
When you tell data-driven “Me” stories, you become short-sighted about the outcomes that decision makers look for when deciding to fund, invest and buy. Are the stories you tell well-balanced or out-of-sync with the stories people are listening for? As STEM professionals and left-brain thinkers, we take pride in being the smartest people in the… [Continue Reading]
Is the Goal creating Enduring Professional Stories or Temporary Ones?
Enduring professional stories are the stories clients and colleagues remember, long after you leave the room. First, your message sticks in their brains: motivating their actions beyond today. Then, that message catalyzes their professional behavior and mindset tomorrow and in the future. Why? Because your stories stick. Do you tell enduring professional stories or temporary… [Continue Reading]
Are You a Professionally Engaging or Observational Storyteller?
An observational storyteller lives in the third-person narrative. Overall, they maintain a clinical perspective on whatever it is that they are storytelling about. Think about it. All of us have heard our fair share of observational storytellers. Our first experiences are courtesy of our elementary school teachers. As a result, our professional goals often are… [Continue Reading]
Why So-What Stories are just Tactical Professional Tools
The So-What stories we tell simply leave colleagues, stakeholders, partners and clients flat. At the conclusion of our story, they ask themselves (and you): So-What is the significance of your story to my professional life? So-What is the value of your story to my own professional context? And, So-What do you expect me to do… [Continue Reading]
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