Moving your stories into the Very Compelling Storytelling category is a scary proposition, isn’t it? Sort of like standing in rush-hour traffic during a polar vortex. Very compelling storytelling moves you the biggest one millimeter beyond your storytelling comfort level as you can move. Because the most compelling stories are about how you embrace both… [Continue Reading]
Very Compelling Storytelling embraces Risk and Opportunity
Leverage Provocative Business Storytelling to drive Client Success
Developing your provocative business storytelling acumen moves you one millimeter (or more) beyond sounding like everyone else. Because business stories easily sound too safe, too sanitized and too perfect. Talking about achieving fairy-tale outcomes after surmounting monumental, emergency business challenges. Except that the greatest business challenges which many of our clients face come in smaller… [Continue Reading]
What is Next for Your 2020 Storytelling Strategy?
Your 2020 storytelling strategy offers three choices. Either you choose to: Play it safe. Tell a complacent, risk-free story. And continue to provide products and services which have sold in the past, using your original skill sets and tool kits, doing things exactly the way you originally learned to do them: Yesterday; or Make a… [Continue Reading]
Compelling Client Stories are We Stories not Me Stories
We Stories create the most compelling client stories. The next time you are client-facing, pay attention to how many times you say the word “I.” Or even use the term “we,” but really refer to your internal team of “we”, instead of your client or client’s team of “we.” When our clients cannot discover themselves… [Continue Reading]
Uncomfortable Business Stories are Client Retention Stories
Do you tell uncomfortable business stories to your clients and colleagues? Or, do you prefer comfortable stories, where clients always hear how your products and services will live up to their expectations? And everyone always lives happily ever-after? Also, when you tell these preferable, comfortable, and predictable, stories, what are you thinking to yourself? Are… [Continue Reading]
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