Recently, I had the opportunity to deliver a session on Organisational Storytelling to post graduate students of one of Singapore's most reputed universities. Over these two days of engagement, the students and I worked on lots of scenarios, like communicating your idea to investors, presenting with stories, making a case using stories, and so on. At one stage over the two days, I noticed that...

This blog is written as a response to a comment we received on our previous blog Sales Storytelling on your feet. We highly recommend that you read Sales Storytelling on your feet to better understand the content shared in this blog. A couple of few weeks ago we posted a blog titled Sales Storytelling on your Feet. Soon after posting the blog we got a comment from a reader expressing that it...

Recently I have had the privilege to work with a global organisation for the last five months to institutionalise Storytelling in their company. One of the things we did was regular submission of stories by their sales team that is globally placed to make storytelling a habit for all. A couple of weeks ago one story was submitted which was not used for a sales pitch or presentation and I found it...

You are responsible for leading a change management project and you believe in that change. Carol Dweck, a researcher at Stanford University describes this belief as a Growth mindset. Contrary to your Growth Mindset, there are people with a Fixed Mindset who don't believe in the change you wish to implement and are surreptitiously second-guessing and undermining everything you are trying to...

We like to think that when we take medication, it has an unfailing ability to get to where it is required in the body to treat the illness. But do you know, the cells we are trying to treat themselves can block entry to the drug because they think it's something foreign and potentially harmful. Basically, I don't know you, I don't trust you and I am not allowing you in even if you can do some...

This is part 2 of our Storytelling Techniques for Transforming Presentations Blog series. In Part 1 of this blog series, we answered questions that generally run through our minds even before we start putting our presentations together. In this blog, we share some learnings which are centered around delivering the story. I have yet to come across any literature on Storytelling that covers these...