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Changing the Conversation in Your Company [via stories]

Changing the Conversation in Your Company [via stories] | Just Story It | Scoop.it

In our experience, it's rare for a diverse group of headstrong Executive Education participants from around the globe to agree on anything. Our research has shown that more and more leaders — from organizations that range from computer-networking giant Cisco Systems to Hindustan Petroleum, a large India-based oil supplier — are using the power of organizational conversation to drive their company forward.


I love this article! Why? Because it reframes leadership, organizational change, and employee engagement as a conversation. Finally!


The authors don't directly mention storytelling, but if you are going to have a meaningful conversation, you know that storytelling is going to be a part of it.


Actually, promoting conversational storytelling is what I've practiced for years in my org development work. And it's a natural for anyone connected into business storytelling.


This notion fits perfectly with the emerging recognition that stories -- and stories told in conversation -- are the path to change, effective leadership, and engagement.


I like the research the authors shared, also. This article lays the foundation for where and how to engage in conversations/storytelling that make a difference. And don't forget to read the comments at the end of the post -- there's lots of good info there, too!


Enjoy this different perspective. 


This review was written by Karen Dietz for her Just Story It Scoops at www.scoop.it/t/just-story-it 

Karen Dietz's comment, May 30, 2012 9:53 PM
Hey thanks for re-scooping this Jan! Hugs to you. Hope you had a wonderful weekend at the Cape :))
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Nursing Is Storytelling--Are there words of wisdom here for you too?

Nursing Is Storytelling--Are there words of wisdom here for you too? | Just Story It | Scoop.it
This guest post is by nurse Amy Dixon, who blogs at Creative RN, where it was originally posted on April 30. She attended a writing workshop last summer offered by the CHMP’s program in Narrative W...
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This is an unusual post -- but it also reflects a side of business storyteling that rarely gets mentioned. It's the nitty-gritty side of hearing people share their stories.


All compelling stories are made up of conflict, strife, struggle, trouble and the like. It's not a story without it.


Yet the author here reminds us that it might not always be about happy endings -- and this can be just as powerful.


If our business stories are only about the successes or triumphs, are we in some ways denying parts of the soul that inform our humanity? I certainly have personal stories that don't have happy endings, yet they are still powerful for the lessons I learned that I share with others.


Hmmm -- this is a thought provoking article about storytelling. What do you get from it?


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Electronic records don’t tell us stories that make cognitive sense

Electronic records don’t tell us stories that make cognitive sense | Just Story It | Scoop.it
After two months of use, we’ve learned to our sorrow that EMRs don’t tell us stories that make cognitive sense.


For years we've suffered from 'death by PowerPoint' as people's thinking and experience was forced into this limited computerized framework for transfering knowledge.


Now physicians are facing a similar problem. That's because we think of knowledge as discrete pieces of information instead of knowing that knowledge is best conveyed through stories and rich media imbedded with layered meanings.


Oh, when will we learn? Patients ARE stories. 


You would think that with all the work going on in storytelling these days (social media, marketing, branding, sales, leadership, agile software development, architecture, education, training, teamwork, and other business applications) someone somewhere would get the idea that Electronic Medical Records (EMR) should allow for story capture.


Oh well. OK, I'll get off my soap box now.


To really understand the beauty and the warts of EMR and its connection to storytelling, read this article. Maybe you'll be the one with the breakthrough idea and be the next mega-millionare for solving this problem!

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