Do our word choices for telling stories engage, delight and convert colleagues and clients? Or, do our word choices make listeners feel like they are not invited to become part of the stories we tell? Word choices make a difference for just about everything we do, as Professionals of Worth. It’s just that something peculiar… [Continue Reading]
Are Our Word Choices preventing Us from Telling Our Story?
Are You Lecturing Your Story or telling Compelling Stories?
Are you telling compelling stories or relying on lecturing your story to get your point across? Let’s face it, about the last thing STEM professionals and left brain thinkers want to do is tell a story. Why? First, because the very notion of storytelling makes STEM professionals and left brain thinkers uncomfortable. After all, the… [Continue Reading]
3 Reasons Why Strategic Stakeholders keep Tuning You Out
Your strategic stakeholders keep tuning you out. Spoiler alert: They tune you out because your professional behavior turns them off. End of story: yours and theirs. Listen to my YouTube keynote story of a major way professional behavior derails the strategic stakeholder support you need to move your career to the next level. When you… [Continue Reading]
Leverage Tell Me More Storytelling instead of So What Storytelling
Tell Me More Storytelling skills result in customers, investors, colleagues, and even your grandmother, asking you to tell them more. About yourself, your career, products, services, solutions, travels, conflicts and even your dreams. Alternatively, are the stories you tell leaving listeners wondering just what the purpose of your story is, in the first place? Tell… [Continue Reading]
Why are You telling only Half Your Professional Story?
You know you are telling only half your professional story. Yet, the other half, the untold half of your story, dominates your head, doesn’t it? Perhaps that is why you remain unconvinced about the power of your own story. And, perhaps, that is why your story is not as convincing, compelling and differentiating as it… [Continue Reading]
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