When you think about your professional advancement roadmap, storytelling probably is the last component on the list. After all, our perception of professional development reinforces a linear, straight-line from where we are today, to where we will be tomorrow and in the future. Yet, our own experiences getting even from Point A to Point B… [Continue Reading]
Is Story part of Your Professional Advancement Roadmap?
Strategic Storytelling Soft Skills are Powerful Skills
Developing strategic storytelling soft skills is a powerful component of developing leadership skills. Do you currently leave storytelling, and your leadership soft skills, in the hands of other internal or external resources? Or, are you accountable for developing and implementing this skill set, yourself? After a while, it becomes difficult remembering which stories you are… [Continue Reading]
2 Reasons Your Shallow Why Story does not convince Anyone
Telling a shallow Why story falls short of hitting the mark. First, in convincing clients to initially do business with you. Then, in assuring clients about the value of continuing to do business with you. Finally, in attracting employees, with solid and deep professional stories, to work for you. Telling shallow stories does not fool… [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]
Why is Your Job Title Your Entire Professional Story?
When your job title becomes your entire professional story, you feel your title “speaks for itself.” That the professional title on your business card, your e-signature, on your name plate, conveys an entire explanation of who you are, what you do and how you create value for colleagues and clients. Job titles are a bunch… [Continue Reading]
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