With lockdowns easing, comes cinema reopening. There’s a backlog of blockbusters bursting onto the big screen this year, from Bond and Top Gun to the Matrix and, another remake of…
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Narrative techniques have a proven track record in employee engagement. But you can boost yours by making it personal… about you, without being egocentric, about a colleague, or about a…
How to paint a big picture of success for your organisation and get your people telling stories, about how their work makes a difference Experience tells us that staff contribute…
How to bring your vision or strategy to life, so your people get it and know what they need to do to make it happen “Look, we’ve got a crystal-clear…
To truly test how well you can articulate your company or functional strategy, try explaining it to your partner, or a loved one, over dinner. See if you can get…
In every team you’ll find informal influencers; colleagues whose ability to influence opinion, positively or otherwise, belies their position on the org’ chart. To help achieve your communication objectives, these…
In these turbulent economic times, people are turning to a safe haven for their investments – gold. Turning to gold in your organisation is a great investment in getting your…
Involving informal influencers in shaping and sharing your company’s stories, can be transformational With the Winter Olympics drawing to a close it has been a great few weeks for stories….
For your organisation to execute its strategy, employees need a clear destination and a route map to follow When facilitating conferences, I sometimes start with an icebreaker called ‘Point North’….
More than a helicopter view shows how to explain business strategies to employees in-flight Articulating complex business strategies to staff in a way that inspires them to take the right…
As a species, we’ve been using storytelling techniques to make our messages more memorable for over 27,000 years, but you don’t have to study history for inspiration. Compelling stories that…
When coming up with a metaphor to get people talking about the big picture for your organisation, make sure it’s cynic-proof so it doesn’t trigger the wrong kind of storytelling….
