In this webinar, we will explore 5 questions that you can ask that will completely transform your check-ins from “meh” to “ka-pow!” These questions will be key to cutting through the chaos and taking your conversations to a deeper and more meaningful level.
STORY HOUR
Today’s prompt - Q&A Stories
Most presentations are followed by a Question & Answer discussion. Stories are a great tool for this section, especially when the same questions come up often. For this Story Hour, we invite our speakers to think of an upcoming or recurring presentation they have to deliver, and identify one of the questions they may have to answer during the Q&A.. At Story Hour, they will share the question and then answer the question with a 5 min (or less) story.
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In this webinar, our focus is on step one of taking your presentation from dense and dry to dynamic… How to set yourself up for success before you even start building it. We discuss why you should consider context, audience, key messages, narrative structure and more, and give you a framework you can use to approach your presentation development strategically.
Stories are exceptionally powerful at driving home your point; they simplify complex concepts, they bring data to life, and they compel us to take note and pay attention. During this webinar we’ll discuss how you can pinpoint the key story opportunities within your presentation and offer a basic story template that you can use to develop the stories that will work for you.
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Today’s Prompt - Like a Moth to the Flame
Sometimes attraction is so inevitable and powerful, one is captured like a moth to the flame. For this Story Hour we invite our speakers to share a 5 min (or less) story that showcases a time when they were the moth or the flame or even just witness to this magnetic attraction. These experiences are great fodder for story as they are often the making (or breaking) of us.
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In this webinar, we will explore how you can identify your event’s desired outcomes, and then make sure they are a red thread through every step of the planning, to ensure you plan an event that is worth the investment because it successfully achieves the desired outcomes.
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Today’s Prompt - Lightning Talks
One of the hardest things to do is to deliver a clear and coherent message in a short amount of time, and yet we see more and more of our clients are asked to put together a succinct talk. We thought it would be fun to invite our community to give it a shot as Story Hour is a place of practice and learning. Instead of a 5 min or less story, speakers are challenged to deliver a 5 min or less talk. Slides or another version of visual aid is allowed but certainly not required.
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In this webinar, we’ll explore the reasons why we fall into the Death By Presentation trap, and what we can do instead to make sure our SKOs create momentum, alignment, and action.
In this webinar, we’ll share:
The 5 biggest mistakes you can make in breakout design
What great breakout design actually looks like
Simple shifts that will make your next SKO the most valuable one yet
STORY HOUR
Today’s Prompt - Sell Me This Pen
In the movie, Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio's character, Jordan Belfort, asks a room full of salespeople to sell him a pen. The ask tests a salesperson's ability to understand a client's needs and demonstrate why a solution would be of value. The scene illustrates a fundamental selling point: that it's not enough to have a great product or service, you also have to know how to sell that product or service.
Part of effective selling is telling a compelling story… one that will shift how a prospect thinks or acts. In this Story Hour, we invite our storytellers to tell a story that will convince us that we need something we don’t have, or should do something we otherwise wouldn’t. Learning to develop a story like this is helpful for anyone in any function—sales or not—because invariably we’ll find ourselves in moments where we need to influence others to think or act a certain way.
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Today’s Prompt - Safe At Last
Safety (and lack of safety) can mean a million things…and that’s why it’s a great metaphor and potential story prompt. Do you have an exciting outdoor adventure story where you were worried about your physical safety that could be a metaphor and help you share a lesson about courage or trying something new? Do you have a story about a leader that risked your psychological safety and how another leader or peer was able to help you navigate that space?
At this Story Hour, we ask our speakers to share their stories of safety (or lack of safety) and what they learned as a result of that experience.
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In this webinar, we will share the habits and best practices for leading through change so that you can rise above the rough waters, and lean into the moment.
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Today’s Prompt - Short Stories
At Story Hour, we typically hold our speakers to a 5 minute time limit so we can have 3 speakers at each event. And it’s surprising how often they go over! It’s hard to craft and share a “short” story. It takes work to figure out what you can leave out and still have your story land. For this Story Hour, we invite folks to bring a 1 - 2 minute story. It can be a shorter version of one shared at a previous Story Hour or something new.
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Today’s prompt - Data with a Soul
Brené Brown says, “Stories are data with a soul.” But we are often in situations where we need to present numbers or data, and we forget to tell a story. Numbers and data are often mind-numbing and easy for your audience to disregard… but stories captivate and stick. For this Story Hour, we invite our speakers to bring actual or imagined data they may need to communicate to an audience, and then bring it to life for us via a story.
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Join us for a free opportunity to understand why change efforts fail, what leaders should be doing to prevent that failure, and what you can do to set your leadership team up to lead a successful rollout. As leadership communications experts with backgrounds in change management consulting, we’ve built a tool that will put the challenges of your change effort onto the table between your leaders, and guide them to solutions that will work. No matter your change initiative, the journey through it remains the same…. And this tool will help you get there successfully.
A key buzzword of the past decade has been “storytelling.” Most of us have an intuitive understanding that stories can be powerful tools for influence: they simplify complex concepts, they bring data to life, and they compel us to take note and pay attention. But not all stories are created equal. What is it, exactly, that gives a story its magic? How do we know when we tell a story that we will impact our audience?
In this webinar, we’ll explore the 4 key qualities that make a story influential. These qualities are informed by studies in social psychology, behavior change, cognitive science, and more. Join us for this free webinar and walk away with a clear framework that you can use to tell more impactful stories.
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Today’s prompt - Story and a Slide
We are huge champions of integrating stories into your presentations at work. For this Story Hour, we invite our speakers to bring an actual slide from a presentation (past, present or future). They will present their slide, including a story as part of the talk track (5 minutes or less).
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Join us for a webinar where certified coaches and seasoned leadership development experts will share a step by step process leaders can use to prepare for a difficult conversation and reduce the emotional toll it takes on us.
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Today’s prompt: A Crazy Thing That Happened
Some of the best stories are the exciting, dramatic and memorable moments in our lives. For this Story Hour, we invite our speakers to bring a story about “a crazy thing that happened.” Stories can be about the personal, the professional or anything in between. Speakers should come prepared to share a 5-min or less story.
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Join us for a webinar where certified coaches and seasoned leadership development experts will share high-impact coaching sound bites any leader can use to bring out the best in their people.
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Today we will share stories all about Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone.
These are stories of learning, of change, sometimes of failure, and of vulnerability. These are also stories that may come up in lessons learned, interviews performance conversations.
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Are you responsible for coordinating the speakers and presenters for a conference? This webinar is for you!
In this session, we’ll offer tips on how to best support your speakers to ensure that their talks are compelling and your conference experience feels cohesive and meaningful to the attendees.
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Today we will share stories inspired by “Sustenance: Stories about the things that keep us going”
As we hear more and more about overwhelm, burnout, and the need for people to simply check out just to survive, we recognize the power of the little things that help us keep going. Today we’ll share stories about the thoughts, moments, rituals, or tokens that help us along every day.
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When was the last time you were excited to show up to a presentation?...Presentations are an overleveraged tool for every type of meeting. They make it easier for the presenter to prepare, but MUCH harder for your audience to pay attention.
In this session we’ll share key tips to transform your conference, retreat, or sales kickoff into a next-level, interactive experience that inspires your audience while still communicating all the information that matters.
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Today we will share stories inspired by “Storytelling Tool: Pause”
In storytelling, silence is often just as important as the words we say. Pause is one of the most dramatic tools of story delivery, and worth experimenting with. Today we’ll explore ways to leverage pause in our storytelling. We’ll discuss how it invites curiosity, how it amplifies emotional impact, and gives weight and meaning to specific moments. Bring a story that lets you stretch into your own use of pause, or one that illustrates what can go wrong when pause is misused.
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We’ll share some client stories, trends we’re seeing, and new products we’ve launched. You’ll share your current challenges, and we’ll discuss ways we could address them.
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Today we will share stories inspired by “Your Odyssey: A career journey story”
One of the most important stories that you can craft is the story of your career. You’ll need this story for interviews, networking events, keynotes, and other crucial moments. Today we’ll hear “career journey” stories. Can our storytellers keep the audience engaged? Will they be able to build a through-line that keeps the story pieces connected?
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Join us for a webinar where certified coaches and seasoned leadership development experts will share high-impact coaching sound bites any leader can use to bring out the best in their people.
STORY HOUR
Today we will share stories inspired leveraging Metaphor as a storytelling tool.
Metaphors are helpful in simplifying and organizing information. They also often carry emotion and meaning. For those reasons, metaphor is a valuable tool for data stories, personal stories, career stories and more. Bring a story where you use a metaphor or metaphors to make your point or illustrate the concepts in your story.
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Join us for a webinar where we’ll share several high-impact leadership habits that can effectively bridge digital distances to create connection and belonging at work.
Join us for a short webinar where you will discover the power of storytelling, the critical stories your leaders should be able to share, how a storytelling culture benefits an entire organization, and tips for building a storytelling culture at your organization.
The Inspired Check-Ins card deck is designed to help managers have more meaningful, productive and empowering one-on-one touch points with their employees. Join us for a webinar where we'll share how you can immediately transform your check-ins from dry and routine to meaningful and productive.
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Today we will share stories inspired by “Stories Th(at) Work: A company, product or service story.”
How do you tell the story of your company, product or service?
Today we’ll hear stories that illustrate the why or the what of our work. If you’re a founder, share why you’re in the business you are. If you are a product or sales leader, share a story that illustrates the impact on your users or customers.
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Join us for a webinar where we share three ways to turn your update calls into more efficient, productive, and engaging meetings that people find both worthwhile and fun.
In this webinar, we will explore how to check-in on your check-ins. We'll share tips, a conversation flow and specific questions you can use to immediately transform your check-ins for the better.
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Today we’ll hear stories of when you discovered what you want to be when you grow up. These formative stories are powerful in sharing who we are with others. Feel free to choose a story from your childhood or early in career. Think about what moments or experiences helped you figure out what you could be as a “grown-up.”
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Join us for a short webinar where we’ll share tips for how to design a storytelling learning journey that will empower your rising and established leaders with the storytelling skills they need to make an impact.
Join us on March 14th from 2 PM to 2:30 PM EST for an insightful webinar that will help you transform your check-ins.
Join us for a short webinar where we’ll share insights we’ve gained through our work designing bespoke curricula that are laser-focused, easy to roll out, and—believe it or not—highly interactive.
Are you looking to refresh your employee touch points? Join us for a quick injection of new ideas that you can bring to your one-on-ones. Learn how to keep them fresh and ensure your team members are engaged and motivated at work.
Join us for a short webinar where you will discover the power of storytelling, the critical stories your leaders should be able to share, how a storytelling culture benefits an entire organization, and tips for building a storytelling culture at your organization.
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Today we will share stories inspired by “Storytelling Tool: Pitch and Pace”
Pitch and pace are vocal tools that help us elevate stories through dramatization. Today we’ll explore ways to leverage pitch and pace in our storytelling. Dialogue, emotional shifts, and high stakes all offer opportunities to play with pitch and pace. Bring a story that lets you stretch into your own use of pitch and pace, or one that illustrates what can go wrong when pitch and pace are misused or misinterpreted.
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Pivotal moments in our lives are excellent fodder for stories. These are the moments when our values are challenged, or our mettle is put to the test. They’re the moments that redirect the trajectory of our lives—for better or for worse. Sometimes they’re as small as a poignant comment or a single phone call. Sometimes it’s the moment someone enters or leaves our lives. Sometimes it’s a seismic event that radically transforms everything around us. What are the moments that made you?
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