Narrative skills are the invisible glue of truly successful organisations. Helping people connect to the business story is recognised as crucial and yet many organisations struggle to do this - failing to motivate their employees or to engage their customers as a result.
Our storytelling programmes help overcome this. We develop leaders skills and understanding of narrative influence and provide toolkits of techniques and ideas to sustain you subsequently.
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Narrative intelligence includes the ability to articulate where the organisation is headed in ways that make sense to people. It involves:
- Inspiring people by telling stories that bring the values and purpose of the organisation to life and
- Giving purpose and meaning by helping them think in narrative form – so that they too can understand and articulate the business story.
Our programmes help communicators and leaders bring these skills into play quickly and in a structured, consistent way that is also genuine and real. It usually involves some or all of the following:
Leaders workshops on:
- Storytelling for leaders
- Corporate or strategic narrative
Employees workshops:
- Storytelling skills in action
- Story-listening (employee workshops for renewed energy and change)
Training workshops for internal facilitators – to supply a toolkit of techniques:
- Surfacing a Higher Sense of Purpose: how to work with groups to explore the corporate story
- Story triggering: helping others find and tell stories in support of the main narrative
- Story-listening: sharing stories through an appreciative lens, such as that of appreciative inquiry, to trigger renewed focus on positive change and build the story and culture everyone wants from the bottom up
- Active story sharing to spark new ideas and behaviour change.
Contact us for further information on short webinar sessions that we are running for clients on request in 2021. Our in-person programmes and open workshops are on hold during the pandemic. You can see details of an earlier open workshop here.
Read our article on A narrative toolkit helps IC drive connection and collaboration published by the Institute of Internal Communication.
