Storytelling

If we were making a television show or movie about your life which actor would be best-suited to play you?

Which brand of automobile is most like you or your business?

What item in your office or in your purse or wallet tells us something about you that we would not otherwise know?

What stories are your most delighted customers telling today about their experience with you and your business?

Can you recall a setback you experienced or a significant problem you solved that revealed your greatest strength and true character?

What will your future victory look, feel, sound and smell like?

These are several questions I ask while coaching leaders for career advancement and helping businesses craft and communicate winning strategies.

The questions invite clients to envision and begin telling a story that often becomes a powerful guide for future opportunities and performance.

Storytelling is a hallmark of the most effective leaders and the most compelling and successful business brands.

Storytelling engages and connects others with you, with each other and with your ambitions, plans and strategies for future achievement.

Since most of what we experience each day is only one of many different stories we could choose, let’s create, tell and listen to more stories that inspire and challenge us to be the best we can be!

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“It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story.” ~ Native American Proverb

“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end … but not necessarily in that order.” ~ Jean-Luc Godard

“The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.” ~ Harold Goddard

“If you want a happy ending - that depends on where you stop the story.” ~ Orson Welles

“Great stories happen to those who can tell them.” ~ Ira Glass

“Cool Story, Bro!”