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?
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]
Are You Professionally Story-Curious or just plain Disconnected?
Becoming professionally story-curious develops those all-important critical-listening skills. Regardless of your professional discipline. Also, those critical-listening skills are important to fine-tuning your overall critical-thinking skills. So, recall what happens when another professional tells a story. Do you lean in, and become curious about what’s next? Or, do you tune out and turn off? Either because… [Continue Reading]
Purpose-Driven Stories move beyond Quotas and KPIs
Telling purpose-driven stories engages strategic partners and clients. Because these stories do not sound like the quota- and KPI-driven stories they hear from other professionals. Even when these professionals are their own internal colleagues. Now, you may not feel that your functional role involves telling stories. Yet, think again. Do you engage in any type… [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]
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