·Business & Strategy
Stories, not places, inspire us to travel
Storytelling can help tourism. For travellers seek memories not just photographs
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
Stories At Work
How to make your message memorable and compelling
Contributors: Indranil Chakraborty
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Only perfect practice makes perfect
Deliberate practice can make you a natural storyteller
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Indranil Chakraborty
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·Leadership & Organisation
Managing change, a story at a time
Using stories to align employees to new strategies
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·Leadership & Organisation
Untangling messy people issues
People-related issues are complex and unpredictable. Elicit stories about them to understand patterns and design the right interventions
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Founder | Storyworks
·Leadership & Organisation
Want to trigger action? Use a story
Stories put facts and data in context. They also engage the listener's emotions, inspiring them to act
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
·Leadership & Organisation
Managing knowledge through stories
Stop knowledge from walking out the door
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Founder | Storyworks
·Leadership & Organisation
Building a story repertoire
Here’s how you can create your own, easy to recall catalogue of stories for every business context
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Indranil Chakraborty
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·Business & Strategy
The ROI of business storytelling
Storytelling has a 28.06 times return on investment!
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
·Leadership & Organisation
Overcoming entrenched views
If the story is in their heads, it is hard to change
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
·Leadership & Organisation
The gobbledygook generator
Is your communication also clouded with business jargon?
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
·Business & Strategy
Continuing on the 20% sales increase journey
Put your storytelling skills to work to be a super salesperson
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Founder | Storyworks
·Business & Strategy
Interested in a 20% increase in sales?
Put your storytelling skills to work to be a better salesperson
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
·Leadership & Organisation
Overturn perceptions that subvert a new strategy
What works and what doesn't when you have Doubting Thomases
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
·Leadership & Organisation
Business Storytelling is Not About the Hero's Journey
You don't need a complex plot or theatrics. Narrating experiences and anecdotes can make an abstract concept concrete and build its memorability
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Founder | Storyworks
·Leadership & Organisation
Make strategies stick - neutralize stories that undermine them
The first step is to acknowledge the anti-story and then put a more powerful story in its place
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
·Business & Strategy
Case studies are dead. Long live success stories
Make case studies interesting to read, easy to recall and effortless to retell by introducing elements of a good story
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Lessons on pitching from 'Shark Tank'
How to make your pitch credible, viable and persuasive enough for someone to believe in you and want to put their money on your idea
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
·Leadership & Organisation
Why don't strategies stick?
Narratives are much more memorable than bullet points on a PowerPoint slide when trying to make your teams understand your strategy
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Founder | Storyworks
·Leadership & Organisation
Get out of the clichés trap
How do you ensure that your company's values are not just abstract concepts? Listen and share stories from employees on how they are living these values
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·Leadership & Organisation
Connection stories to build rapport
How to introduce yourself so that you stand out and are remembered for the values you bring to the table
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Indranil Chakraborty
Founder | Storyworks
·Leadership & Organisation
Once upon a time…
How to harness the power of stories to connect, engage and inspire
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Indranil Chakraborty
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