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The Best Customer Discovery requires Storytelling Patience

February 25, 2020 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

Today we’re talking about the importance of having storytelling patience when conducting customer discovery interviews. Customer discovery is a methodology used for building startups, new corporate ventures / intrapreneurial activities, design and engineering projects, and sales. Actually, in my storytelling for STEM professionals and left-brain thinkers playbook, you and I are never quite finished with… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Collaboration And Convergence, Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Professional Development Tagged With: customer discovery, customer experience, customer retention, engineering professional development, entrepreneurs, One Millimeter Mindset™ storytelling programs, project management professional development, Quality professional development, sales, startups, STEM Professional Development, storytelling for analytical thinkers, storytelling for left brain thinkers, storytelling keynote speaker

Do Your Strategic Business Stories address Unmet Client Needs?

February 18, 2020 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

Addressing unmet client needs is the key to designing the products, services, programs and systems which best serve customers. Over the long-haul. When client retention is the objective. Yet the strategic business stories you tell often do not address those long-term, stated or unstated client needs. Why do you continue to play it safe and… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Professional Development Tagged With: account based selling, customer experience, customer retention, engineering, entrepreneurs, HR storytelling, human capital strategy, Industry 4.0, IoT, keynote storytelling speaker, keynote strategic business storytelling speaker, life sciences professional development, manufacturing, One Millimeter Mindset, project management professional development, Quality professional development, sales, storytelling for analytical thinkers, Storytelling for STEM professionals

Use Story Connection Strategy to Engage Employees and Clients

February 11, 2020 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

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]

Filed Under: Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Human Capital & Industrial IoT Workforce, Professional Development Tagged With: customer experience, employee experience, entrepreneurs, HR storytelling, human capital strategy, human resources professional development, life sciences storytelling programs, One Millimeter Mindset™ storytelling programs, Quality professional development, startups, storytelling for left-brain and analytical thinkers, storytelling for project management professionals, Storytelling for STEM professionals, strategic business value

Developing STEM Storytelling for Professional Development – 3 Blogs

December 4, 2019 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

Developing STEM storytelling as part of your professional development trajectory focuses you on stories which include. Instead of stories which make other people feel marginalized, intimidated or outright excluded. Now, some STEM professionals are unaware of how their behaviors and mindset showcase unconscious professional bias. Yet, other STEM professionals and analytical, left-brain thinkers, are very… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Collaboration And Convergence, Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Human Capital & Industrial IoT Workforce, Professional Development Tagged With: conscious bias, engineering professional development, entrepreneurs, human capital strategy, human resource professionals, Industry4.0, innovation, IoT, life sciences professional development, manufacturing, professional diversity and inclusion, project management professional development, Quality professional development, startups, STEM Professional Development, STEM storytelling, STEM STorytelling keynote speaker, storytelling for analytical thinkers, storytelling for left brain thinkers, unconscious bias, venture capital strategy

Why telling Your STEM Story makes Everyone Uncomfortable

June 27, 2019 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

How comfortable are you telling your STEM story? During startup pitches, meeting presentations, conference gatherings? Even telling your Grandmother “what you do” when you are home from university for the holidays? The STEM acronym describes individuals engaged in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics pursuits. Are you a STEM professional? Do you work with, or sell… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Professional Development Tagged With: communication skills, customer experience, employee experience, engineering, entrepreneurs, human capital strategy, Industry40, keynote speaker, manufacturing, startups, STEM Professional Development, STEM soft skills, STEM storytelling, STEM STorytelling keynote speaker, storytelling experience, technology, women in engineering, workforce development

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