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Make it an individual story
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?
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Exhibit change
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.
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Motivation behind Storytelling
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.
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Show passion while you're recounting a story
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 ...
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Focus on one Theme/Big idea
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.
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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.
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Make your story personal
Great stories reveal a piece of yourself.
Ask yourself:
- What makes you care about the work that you do?
- What part of you outside of your work is present inside of that world?
- If in financial services, for example, what is it behind the n...
Then What?
We have a choice to continue our old behavior of blowing past our boundaries to parts of our life outside of work.
In those moments Ask yourself "what if I don't do this today?"
You’ll probably be behind tomorrow, ask yourself again: Then what? Keep digging...
To build an effective system...
- Take yourself mentally from step one all the way to the final step.
- At each step, ask yourself what tools, resources, information, or people you might need access to.
- Put them in a designated space or build in the easiest possible method for getting wha...
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