Yesterday’s business backstory gets you to where you are today. However, does this history showcase how you get clients to where they need to go: tomorrow and in the future? Today’s businesses represent the intersection of people, processes and interconnected software-machine interfaces. That Internet of Things environment may not be the bedrock upon which you… [Continue Reading]
Relying on Yesterday’s Business Backstory to drive Business Growth?
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]
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]
Packing More Than You Can Deliver into Your Sales Story?
More Than You Can Deliver storytelling is easily dismissed as both incredible as well as un-credible. First, you promise to deliver products, solutions, services and programs exceeding your professional capabilities. Then, your promises surpass your organization’s workforce, as well as manufacturing and assembly, competencies. Pursuing those carrots, and lucrative client opportunities, leads you down a… [Continue Reading]
Why avoiding Story Context derails Sales Decision Making
Story context is a critical element to creating compelling stories. Stories which convince people to buy whatever it is you sell – and buy more than once from you. And, stories which inspire people, like you, to move one millimeter beyond legacy mindset, habits and behaviors. You know the saying: “The devil’s in the details”?… [Continue Reading]
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