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How to Become a Master Persuasive Storyteller

Skip Prichard

Persuasive storytelling is one of the most important key skills in almost every profession. As a result, we don’t understand how to take advantage of the boundless expanse of our visual memory banks as a source for quick and clear communication. Tell A Great Story. Presenting to distracted audiences is now the norm.

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Have Your Voice But Don’t Be Judgemental: An Interview with Stuart Sneer UPB Chairman

CO2

Stu’s motto is “I want to be a family owned, professionally run, community bank. I’m developing a self-authoring type mindset. There are storytellers and spreadsheet people; I’m a storyteller but need sometimes to show up as the spreadsheet guy. In the process, he helped consolidate seven charters into one.

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Have Your Voice But Don’t Be Judgemental: An Interview with Stuart Sneer UPB Chairman

CO2

Stu’s motto is “I want to be a family owned, professionally run, community bank. I’m more aware of trigger points for an outburst—and instead of speaking in those moments, I’ll try to think my way through them instead.” “I’m developing a self-authoring type mindset. In the process, he helped consolidate seven charters into one.

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Win Back Trust with Raw, Unscripted, and Real Messaging

Skip Prichard

We view control over our time as more important than “lots of money in the bank” as a sign of success. Raw as In-Process” refers to co-development, to how brands that communicate in frequent, collaborative bursts with their public create bonds of joint ownership. What skills should leaders be developing to market this way?

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Data Analysis Should Be a Social Event

Harvard Business Review

To be sure, much has been written about analysts as storytellers (see, for instance, A Data Scientist''s Real Job on HBR.org) and about creativity as part of the analytical process, but what has not been explored is the storytelling analyst actively participating in co-creating value with others. Here''s how it works in data analysis.

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Social Capital Is as Important as Financial Capital in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The paper draws on the broad social capital literature and the toolkit for building social capital developed by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. To give just one example of storytelling, consider how the Cleveland Clinic made its decision to ask every patient seeking an appointment whether they would like to be seen today.

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What Job Candidates Really Want: Meaningful Work

Harvard Business Review

We''ve heard from associates at all the big management consultancies, analysts at the largest investment banks, developers at the most prominent technology companies, and senior managers from Fortune 50 corporations, and they all tell us the same things. They are not picking their next job based on the size of the paycheck.

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