Incredible stories uncover a piece of yourself. Ask yourself:What compels you care about the work that you do? Which part of you beyond your work is available within that world? If in financial services, for instance, what is it behind the numbers and information that are at the emotional core of your work?

Make it an individual story

In the working environment, storytelling fills in as an essential, powerful tool for successful communication.It gets people excited around a thought, or maybe some drier information that probably won't have been as intriguing before.

Motivation behind Storytelling

The characteristic of an extraordinary story is that the shared experience has changed the person in some way. Basically, it can be a change of perspective or support for a belief or an idea.First, ask yourself what change you would like to see in your audience. When presenting a new idea to people, start in a place they can relate to and understand why they are skeptical or uncomfortable. Confirm that, then use the story as a guide for where to land them.You have given them a step-by-step process to get to your common point of understanding.

Exhibit change

What's so interesting about what you're talking about?If the audience knows why you are interested, they will have a reason to care about them. In other words, the story must have value. And they don't have to be significant.You can create a great story from little things if the storyteller is interested in it.

Show passion while you're recounting a story

You always want to think carefully about what you are leaving your audience with.What is the theme of your story, what is the big idea? Your story will be full of details, of course. In fact, one of the best things about storytelling is that the details create the world.So, the more detailed you are in the story, the more global the story becomes. But think about how all the details of your story relate to the big idea.

Focus on one Theme/Big idea

Storytelling help leaders to inspire employees, sharing a vision, defining company values, teaching necessary concepts, and even helping employees to get to know their leaders better.

How leaders can use the right story at the right time to inspire change and action This revised and updated edition of the best-selling book A Leader's Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few ways to handle the most important and difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. Using myriad illustrative examples and filled with how-to techniques, this book clearly explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time. Stephen Denning has won awards from Financial Times, The Innovation Book Club, and 800-CEO-READ The book on leadership storytelling shows how successful leaders use stories to get their ideas across and spark enduring enthusiasm for change Stephen Denning offers a hands-on guide to unleash the power of the business narrative.

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How leaders can use the right story at the right time to inspire change and action This revised and updated edition of the best-selling book A Leader's Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few ways to handle the most important and difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. Using myriad illustrative examples and filled with how-to techniques, this book clearly explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time. <ul> <li>Stephen Denning has won awards from Financial Times, The Innovation Book Club, and 800-CEO-READ</li> <li>The book on leadership storytelling shows how successful leaders use stories to get their ideas across and spark enduring enthusiasm for change</li> <li>Stephen Denning offers a hands-on guide to unleash the power of the business narrative.</li> </ul>

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