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A Strategic Story about Strategic Storytelling

Let's Grow Leaders

Over the years, I have used strategic storytelling workshops to help drive key messages, build teams, and enhance communication skills. The Strategic Story Behind Strategic Storytelling Many years ago back in my HR [.] The post A Strategic Story about Strategic Storytelling appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

In Supercommunicators , Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to show how we can all learn to identify and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every conversation. Uncommon Greatness is the key many leaders have been searching for their entire career.

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Year-in-Review: 7 Questions to Help Your Team Reflect on Success and Key Learnings

Let's Grow Leaders

Best… Day (this one can be a lot of fun, and great for storytelling). What new skills did you learn? One fun way to do personal bests is to give your team a list of potential “best ofs” to choose from, and have each team member pick one or two personal bests to share. Probes: In what areas have you developed?

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Using Storytelling To Craft And Communicate Your Strategic Vision

Tanveer Naseer

Of the array of skills that comprise leadership, the ability to craft and communicate strategic vision is simultaneously the most valuable and least well-practiced. I held that belief for most of my career, afraid that asking others for help crafting vision was a sign of intellectual weakness.

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Soft Skills Are Vital If Low Skilled Workers Are To Thrive

The Horizons Tracker

The standard thinking suggests that wage inequality tends to increase as technical progress advances, as the march of technology raises the premium on skilled labor, and dulls the negotiating power of unskilled labor as technology increasingly takes the work they used to do. The importance of soft skills. Five skills rose to the top.

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30 Crucial Skills You Need to Be an Amazing Speaker

Lead from Within

It’s the business skill people dread the most–but once you get over the initial jitters, being a good public speaker really isn’t that hard. Like most skills, you can become competent, if not great, if you’re willing to put in the time for practice and planning. A good presenter is a great storyteller.

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Leading Matters: John L. Hennessy on the Leadership Journey

Leading Blog

Finally, he shows how collaboration, innovation, intellectual curiosity, storytelling, and creating change that lasts, helped him reach his goals. A true sense of one’s own skills and character—arises not from ego, but from humility. Beyond personal enjoyment, though, this lifelong curiosity has served me well in my career.