wisdom at work: the power of personal storytelling to spark insight, breakthrough, and lifelong...
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The benefits of storytelling in business.TRANSCRIPT
WISDOM at WORKThe Power of Personal
Storytelling to Spark Insight, Breakthrough,
and Lifelong Innovation
@ Idea Champions
IMAGINE
you only had 5 minutes to spark innovation in your company
What would you do?
Play Mozart in the hallways?
Cite the latest data?
Share best practices?
Launch an incentive program?
Present a case study?
Collect ideas from your workforce?
LAME!
STORY
Instead, tell a really powerful
Stories About What?• Courage • Creativity • Breakthrough • Challenge • Collaboration • Perseverance • Learning • Intuition • Insight • Intention • Focus • Authenticity • Victories • Ideas • Trust • Wisdom • Customer Service • Humor • Possibility • Appreciation • Connection • Hope • Agility • Resiliency • Courage • Creativity • Breakthrough • Teamwork • Collaboration • Perseverance • Communication • Learning • Intuition • Insight • Intention • Focus • Ideas • Authenticity • Victories• Wisdom • Stories • Possibility • Appreciation • Connection • Hope
What’s in it for
YOU?
EngagementTrust Building
InsightConnection
CollaborationCommunity
LearningInspirationCreativityWisdom
Storytelling is the most powerful way
to deliver a memorable
message and the most effective way to
transmit meaning, tacit knowledge and collective wisdom.
“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
That’s what WISDOM AT WORK
is all about
Is a highly engaging workshopdesigned to help business people
leverage the value of storytelling in the workplace, especially the sharing of their own
memorable moments of truth on-the-job – stories that have, embedded within them,
great meaning, insight, and knowledgewith the power to spark insight and action in others.
WISDOM @ WORK
TIME TO TELL A NEW STORY“Over the years I have
become convinced that we learn best – and change – from hearing stories that strike a chord within us. Those in leadership positions who fail to grasp or use the power of stories risk failure for themselves and their companies.” – John Kotter
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