How to Tell Impact Stories: A Simple Formula
Need to tell an impact story for your project or program? Here’s a simple 4-part formula along with examples of when to use it.
Story As Strategy: Set Your Rhythm
Make planning and measurement more regular occurrences.
Story As Strategy: Establish Your Systems
If you’re going to grow, you’ll need the right systems.
Why Traditional Strategic Planning Doesn’t Work
You and your team have just finished setting your strategic plan. A few months into the year… everything changes.
Story As Strategy: Map Your Motivation
Get to know your audience better, so you can better deliver what they need.
Story As Strategy: Define Your Main Character
Before you can figure out where you’re going, you have to understand who you are and where you’ve come from.
Your Story is Your Strategy
For a writer, a story is a constant work-in-progress. As a leader, your organization and its strategic initiatives are continual works-in-progress. There are any number of decisions that can be made for any number of reasons, each of which will lead to a different branch in your strategic story and a different variation of the story’s ending.
The 4-Point Story Model for Telling Compelling Stories
Any change or transformation story can be broken down into the following 4 parts.
Common Growing Pains for Leaders
There will come a point in your leadership journey or in your team’s journey where you recognize that what got you to the current level of success will not get you to the next level of success or growth that you desire.
3 Organizational Responses to Change
When it comes to change and uncertainty, there's usually three responses. And two of those responses are growth limiting responses. While one response is a response that allows for growth in the face of uncertainty and change.
A Masterplan Is Better Than Goals
Goals are pretty good as a to-do list of of things you want to accomplish or achieve. But when you're in a leadership position and you have all of these moving parts to orchestrate, goals alone aren't enough.
the sacred bundle: unwrap your team’s backstory
Learn an indigenous storytelling technique to help you and your team reconnect and remember the moments that mattered most in your journey to ‘happily ever after’