I love this model: the story spine which combines the art of business storytelling with a practical approach for business. I have written about it many times and have used it for years. I learned [...]
We're all taught to be interesting and fascinating. In part, that's true. There is science that shows we're attracted to what's different, fresh, fascinating. It's great to be those things. And I am all in [...]
customer engagement and vulnerability: show a little leg first Empathy is not a soft skill in my mind. When we approach business from a place of empathy and vulnerability something magic happens. Vulnerability [...]
How to generate kick-ass content marketing ideas using improv On my improv and innovation cafe' series, I've had a blast discussing how to generate new ideas for content marketing using improvisation techniques. I've been joined [...]
I've said it before: today's business storytelling is predominantly storytelling-lite. Many of the business stories being told just scratch the surface of human emotions because they are too focused on the company, on rational (rather [...]
Just One Tip from 11 Great Storytellers I am on overload. You’re on overload. We’re all feeling it. So instead of the usual list of 100+ tips (who has time?!), I asked some of my [...]
DNA Video Hangouts Business Storytelling Techniques: StoryDNA Hosted by Kathy Klotz-Guest and Brian Carter, the business storytelling StoryDNA series of Google Hangouts is all about the future of business storytelling - techniques and [...]
Does your business have a ‘Yes, And’ or a ‘No, But’ attitude? Culture, collaboration and storytelling are the focus of this episode. Recently, I had the pleasure of chatting about Business Storytelling with Lianne Picot [...]
In this brief video, I talk about why every company needs a storytelling strategy - a topic I wrote about in detail. Your big story (your core purpose story) and all the other stories you [...]
My post was published in July in the Convince & Convert blog. Every organization and any business of any size (including entrepreneurs!) must tell a variety of stories. Most of what we hear lately [...]
On Wednesday, August 5th, we had a special episode of the 'Improv and Innovation Cafe'.' I had a great time chatting with my friend, fellow improviser and storyteller, Kat Koppett, about storytelling for presentations and [...]
On Tuesday, August 4th, I had a great time chatting with best-selling author Garrison Wynn about employee storytelling, the stories employees tell and why it matters as a leading indicator and measure of organizational health. [...]
Last week on my Blogtalkradio podcast, I talked about a topic that I believe is critical to great business storytelling: vulnerability. Too many business stories fail to connect because they 1) are not told through [...]
We - Brian Carter, Gary Ware and I - had so much fun in part I, that we came back for more! On July 30th, we had a part II of improv and content marketing. [...]
This week I had a lot of fun chatting with Drew Tarvin, engineer, speaker, improviser and founder of Humor That Works about Humor in the Workplace for our Improv & Innovation Cafe' video series. Humor [...]
Brian Carter and I are working on a book on Storytelling for Business. We had the great pleasure (and fun) of interviewing Kevin Allison, founder of TheRisk! podcast, storyteller, and former member of MTV's comedy, [...]
Batman & Hotwheels: Marketing Inspired by Your Inner Kid I had the honor of speaking at FunnyBizz San Francisco on June 11, 2015. There were so many great presentations that day - all advancing the [...]
Business Storytelling and Why it Matters I have done two great panels on storytelling recently. The first on the Hero's Journey with Michael Margolis and Brian Carter. The second panel was on business storytelling with [...]
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