Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Use storytelling to humanize your brand, making it relatable and engaging. Leverage Content Marketing Content marketing is a powerful tool for standing out in a crowded digital landscape. Bonus Tip: Embrace Innovation Innovation is a key driver of brand distinctiveness.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

The reality is that when leadeing through a merger, retention and results are always symptoms of the CULTURE that you intentionally create and sustain… But fear not – this guide equips you with the tools and strategies to navigate this journey, fostering a vibrant team culture that fuels success. Take the first step today!

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Remember, tools and strategies are powerful, but leadership commitment to communicating a destination and sharing updates on progress drives performance! Together, you can build a culture that fuels success, drives innovation, and propels your organization to new heights.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Marcella recaps, “Because of its role in enhancing collective capabilities like innovation, service quality, collaboration, and adaptability, compassion matters for competitive advantage. Shelley Row gives us some tips about how to take control of that storytelling.” Leadership and Storytelling.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 28, 2021

The researchers hope that their work can help all stakeholders in the creative business, including writers, producers, and film-makers themselves by better informing the various aspects of storytelling in film. Tools like these will help raise societally-meaningful awareness, for example, through identifying negative stereotypes.”

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

He then started Menlo Innovations in 2001, with the express purpose of ” bringing joy to the world through software “ Menlo has gone on to win the Alfred P. The use of “ High Speed Voice Technology ” and other decidedly lo-tech (but very effective) tools. magazine.

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HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

Establishing clear guidelines, fostering trust and engagement, leveraging collaboration tools, and providing ongoing support is key to managing a remote team effectively. The Right Tools for the Job Of course, no remote communication strategy is complete without the right tools.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 10, 2020

Innovation is broadly portrayed as a positive thing, but the very act of disruption can often create as many losers as winners, especially in the immediate aftermath of the disruption where the winners gain a larger share of the pie, and the losers see dwindling returns. An innovation premium. When the researchers assessed the U.K.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Based on two decades of research and illustrated through vivid storytelling, Sandra J. Open Strategy presents a new philosophy, key tools, step-by-step advice, and fascinating case studies—from companies that range from Barclays to Adidas—to guide business leaders in this groundbreaking approach to strategy.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

When leaders use words of encouragement and vision, they do more than communicate—they emotionally engage, boosting morale, sparking innovation, and nurturing a culture of respect and collaboration. Incorporating storytelling into leadership communication is also impactful.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Unfortunately, many leaders view purpose as little more than a convenient PR tool. “Productivity and innovation soar when employees are inspired by a purpose that aligns with their own values.” The first is directional : Purpose acts as a kind of North Star to help guide strategy and innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 8, 2023

Researchers from Lund University have been working on digital tools that allow local communities to better connect to forced migrants. Telling stories A set of tools, including a story map, a virtual exhibition, and an online documentary film, were tested in countries with a history of forced migration: Italy, Greece, Spain, and Poland.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

One of the most powerful tools dream-driven leaders use in order to sincerely communicate a clear, compelling purpose is storytelling. Self Leadership Dreams Innovation Inspiration' Stories are memorable and rich in their capacity to convey meaning. Stories also stir inquisitiveness.

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Leading Blog

MAY 13, 2011

For example, innovation “requires the imagination to conceive of a new vision, the judgment to ensure this vision is practical and can be implemented, the empathy to anticipate how others will react to the new idea and to garner their support, and the courage to stick with a plan despite inevitable bumps in the road.” Can I control myself?

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 8, 2023

AI-based tools have seldom been hotter news after the launch of ChatGPT took the world by storm earlier this year. In this regard, AI-generated messages consistently scored higher in terms of being factual, logical, less angry, and less reliant on storytelling as a persuasive technique. “AI fared quite well.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 28, 2020

It was built in partnership with Harvard University’s Marshall Ganz, who has specialized on the use of storytelling to inspire leadership and commitment to social change. The course is designed to improve the leadership skills of community organizers.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 1, 2012

To this end, psychologists have been working on tools, called self-assessments , for understanding our behavior, and although no one measure can reflect the full complexity of human nature, the best of these measures can help us make sense of parts of ourselves and how we interact with the world.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

To explore our enthrallment and explain the science behind it, I wrote a book – The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human. A great storyteller waves her pen over paper like a wand. But like any powerful tool, humans can wield stories for good or ill. It’s time to grapple with the dark side of story.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2014

To be innovative is to act with creativity by experimenting with how things get done in ways that are good for you and for the people around you--taking realistic steps aimed at scoring four-way wins. A great storyteller must be a great listener. HE ENCOURAGES INNOVATION IN HIMSELF AND OTHERS. Springsteen is a teacher.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 5, 2022

A uthors: Imane Terrab, Chief Advisory Office Caitlin Leahy , Head of Product Innovation & Design Based on research by WDHB Lab. Tools for engagement. It’s up to the designers and facilitators to leverage the right amount of tools and to use them in the right context in order to avoid the trap of being too gimmicky.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 7, 2011

Visual storytelling that evokes pride and engages and recognizes people . Visual storytelling is a powerful tool. At Sherwin-Williams , the paints and coatings giant, a museum-style tour of the company’s history graces the headquarters lobby, recognizing employees for their innovations and accomplishments through the decades.

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Armstrong Storytelling White Paper Brand 108

Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Radical Management, though not succinctly defined by the author, is an approach to leadership and management that leads to greater job satisfaction, higher productivity, client delight and continuous innovation. The book’s subtitle accurately describes, as it should, what you can expect from this great read.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

Organizations fall victim to the same phenomenon in innovation. As a result of coaching clients across industry and geography to maintain the intent of their ideas as they bring them to scale, I’ve observed four common characteristics of successful innovation implementation teams. Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Most leaders are interested in growing their businesses through innovation, but it's risky business: most innovation efforts fail. After years of helping to make innovation happen as chief communications officer at Steelcase and as a consultant, I have a point of view that I'm willing to bet on. Don't lose sight of the horizon.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2017

Cathy is an amazing storyteller and story listener– and we enjoyed working with her audience to share our story in a recent webinar. And that’s how it is with storytelling. You develop cultures that foster innovation. Winning Well Connection Reflection. Why are stories so powerful? Here, teacher, is your water.”.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But how do you overcome obstacles to spreading innovation, like fear of change, resource constraints, and slow, consensus-based decision making? I conduct interviews with innovators at the company, create fact sheets and videos about their work, write articles, and share all that content with various groups of clinicians and staffers. (For

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 11, 2015

Google Trends is an innovative search engine that enables you to explore hot topics in different categories. This tool will enable you to see how often a particular search term is entered in various languages and in different regions of the world. If you are publishing content online, then Google Trends is a necessary tool for you.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Over the past three decades at IDEO, I’ve worked with some of the most innovative companies in the world and seen a lot of creative leaders in action. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Innovation Book. They jump-start their innovation journey with storytelling. Further Reading. Add to Cart.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2020

Techniques like email marketing, content marketing, and search have been around for years now, but we are still seeing some innovation in how they are implemented. It has reached virtually all classes and demographics, and has been used as a marketing tool pretty much since its inception. Shoppable Post. Social media management.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The most popular tool for creating charts is Microsoft Excel. However, Excel is not the best tool to create charts. . * If that seems a lot, compare that to 900 Billion charts that gets printed worldwide in a year. Why the discrepancy? I think the reason is that there is no simple way to create and publish high-quality charts.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 9, 2019

Market research is an essential tool in developing and differentiating brands and services But the research business is rapidly being disrupted by the encroachment of SaaS competitors, emerging methodologies, lower pricing and easier consumer access. Change creates opportunity. The insights industry is clearly at a crossroads.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Our tool, Metis, analyzes data from online reviews and social media to uncover problems and opportunities. But, as the Dorchester Collection’s director of global guest experience and innovation, I’ve discovered that often the data can only tell you where there’s a problem, not why it exists, or how to fix it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2018

Then, by applying tools like artificial intelligence, the online retailers are able to create more-personalized customer experiences, fostering levels of satisfaction, connection, and customer loyalty that traditional retailers just can’t compete with. The science of storytelling and brand performance. Insight Center.

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Brand Retail Customer Loyalty Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Marketers have long known that stories capture consumers’ attention and they commonly weave storytelling into their marketing messages. The New Tools of Marketing. The principles of destination storytelling. They can permanently or temporarily showcase marketing campaigns and product innovations. Start in the heart.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Amidst the acrimony, it seems hard to imagine that public leaders could envision and operate such a platform, or that private innovators could work with them more collaboratively on it — but it’s not impossible. Without more public entrepreneurship, it’s hard to imagine meeting our public challenges or making the most of private innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The function of storytelling is still essential, but occurs at different levels of aggregation, from Storyful , a tool that allows anyone to put together tweets, pictures, and blog posts in a rough narrative, to quick blog posts assembling information and analysis in real time, to more finished pieces that rely on the art of the storyteller.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Teams that have high virtual distance suffer a 90% drop in innovation effectiveness, more than 80% plunge in trust, and 60% decline in finishing projects on time and within budget, among other negative effects. What's the cost of such failures? Sobel-Lojeski has done a quantitative analysis, and her results are eye-opening.

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