TELL YOUR compelling STORY

get focused, INSPIRE ACTION, RAISE FUNDS, ATTRACT attention, HAVE MORE FUN

Is your story compelling? Is your story clear? If you are a leader in your organization or non-profit and you need to find the 'why' of your story in order to make the reason you exist more clear and compelling, this process is for you.

Identify the 'why'
When you identify the 'why.' and begin to tell your new and compelling story, it has an impact on your stakeholders, employees and clients - you sound a different drum and most often than not, your audiences get your renewed sense of clarity, focus and direction and respond in wonderful and unexpected ways.

During this process you will tap into the essence of what drives your business and identify and let go of stories that drain and sap your organization's power. You will crystallize your values and vision to capture your target audience's attention. Your story counts and learning to craft and present your story to your audiences will inspire action and get you better outcomes.

Discover your story
We will use collages, metaphors and your photographs to help you develop and commit to new stories that you and your staff are passionate about and you want your audiences to believe. The stories are clear links to your mission and values and an articulation of your critical success factors. Simply put, your stories will help your audiences to think and feel differently about your organization and your mission and take the appropriate action you want.

Objective
This compelling story-telling program will help you:
· Discover, repurpose and develop new organizational stories that you and your staff are passionate about
· Integrate these and your own stories to support your various presentations
· Use compelling videos, photographs and visual aids to support your message
· Gain confidence as you practice presenting, refining and honing your stories to influence key stakeholders
· Use presentation media quickly and effectively
· Inspire action and get you better outcomes by presenting your key messages clearly

Benefits
About leadership engagement and stories
· Stories can help leaders become aware of cause and effect, of dysfunctional dances between
  divisions, departments, stakeholders, suppliers and customers
· Stories can strengthen organizational learning
· Stories challenge you to consider counterintuitive and less obvious ways to obtain higher leverage
  and get better results
· Stories contain the collective intelligence of the organization in the form of feedback, ideas,
  problems and solutions
· Stories help leaders to make meaning from the organizational homeostasis
· Stories help leaders gain insight and can help shape future strategy, based on feint signals from staff,
  customers and key stakeholders that exist in the organizational unconscious, in other words, below
  the organizational radar and official channels
· Because no single story is comprehensive enough to make an organization understandable,
  collaborative stories paint a more comprehensive picture of what’s really going on

Best audiences
Executives, managers, leaders and frontline leaders
[1½, 2 or 3 days]

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