The Inspired Check-Ins card deck is designed to help managers have more meaningful, productive and empowering one-on-one touch points with their employees. Join us for a webinar where we'll share how you can immediately transform your check-ins from dry and routine to meaningful and productive.
Join us for a short webinar where you will discover the power of storytelling, the critical stories your leaders should be able to share, how a storytelling culture benefits an entire organization, and tips for building a storytelling culture at your organization.
Join us for a webinar where we’ll share several high-impact leadership habits that can effectively bridge digital distances to create connection and belonging at work.
STORY HOUR
Today we will share stories inspired leveraging Metaphor as a storytelling tool.
Metaphors are helpful in simplifying and organizing information. They also often carry emotion and meaning. For those reasons, metaphor is a valuable tool for data stories, personal stories, career stories and more. Bring a story where you use a metaphor or metaphors to make your point or illustrate the concepts in your story.
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Join us for a webinar where certified coaches and seasoned leadership development experts will share high-impact coaching sound bites any leader can use to bring out the best in their people.
STORY HOUR
Today we will share stories inspired by “Your Odyssey: A career journey story”
One of the most important stories that you can craft is the story of your career. You’ll need this story for interviews, networking events, keynotes, and other crucial moments. Today we’ll hear “career journey” stories. Can our storytellers keep the audience engaged? Will they be able to build a through-line that keeps the story pieces connected?
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STORY HOUR
Today we will share stories inspired by “Storytelling Tool: Pause”
In storytelling, silence is often just as important as the words we say. Pause is one of the most dramatic tools of story delivery, and worth experimenting with. Today we’ll explore ways to leverage pause in our storytelling. We’ll discuss how it invites curiosity, how it amplifies emotional impact, and gives weight and meaning to specific moments. Bring a story that lets you stretch into your own use of pause, or one that illustrates what can go wrong when pause is misused.
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STORY HOUR
Today we will share stories inspired by “Sustenance: Stories about the things that keep us going”
As we hear more and more about overwhelm, burnout, and the need for people to simply check out just to survive, we recognize the power of the little things that help us keep going. Today we’ll share stories about the thoughts, moments, rituals, or tokens that help us along every day.
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STORY HOUR
Today we will share stories inspired by “Reconciliation: Finding the way back.”
It’s common for us to exchange stories about the times we felt betrayed, forgotten, jilted, or ignored. These moments hurt, and find connection by sharing these hurts with other. What’s less common are the stories about how we find our way to reconciliation and peace. Today we’ll share the moments where we find it in ourselves to forgive or be forgiven.
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STORY HOUR
Today we will share stories inspired by “Stories Th(at) Work: A company, product or service story.”
How do you tell the story of your company, product or service?
Today we’ll hear stories that illustrate the why or the what of our work. If you’re a founder, share why you’re in the business you are. If you are a product or sales leader, share a story that illustrates the impact on your users or customers.
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Join us for a webinar where we share three ways to turn your update calls into more efficient, productive, and engaging meetings that people find both worthwhile and fun.
In this webinar, we will explore how to check-in on your check-ins. We'll share tips, a conversation flow and specific questions you can use to immediately transform your check-ins for the better.
STORY HOUR
Today we’ll hear stories of when you discovered what you want to be when you grow up. These formative stories are powerful in sharing who we are with others. Feel free to choose a story from your childhood or early in career. Think about what moments or experiences helped you figure out what you could be as a “grown-up.”
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Join us for a short webinar where we’ll share tips for how to design a storytelling learning journey that will empower your rising and established leaders with the storytelling skills they need to make an impact.
Join us on March 14th from 2 PM to 2:30 PM EST for an insightful webinar that will help you transform your check-ins.
Join us for a short webinar where we’ll share insights we’ve gained through our work designing bespoke curricula that are laser-focused, easy to roll out, and—believe it or not—highly interactive.
Are you looking to refresh your employee touch points? Join us for a quick injection of new ideas that you can bring to your one-on-ones. Learn how to keep them fresh and ensure your team members are engaged and motivated at work.
Join us for a short webinar where you will discover the power of storytelling, the critical stories your leaders should be able to share, how a storytelling culture benefits an entire organization, and tips for building a storytelling culture at your organization.
STORY HOUR
Today we will share stories inspired by “Storytelling Tool: Pitch and Pace”
Pitch and pace are vocal tools that help us elevate stories through dramatization. Today we’ll explore ways to leverage pitch and pace in our storytelling. Dialogue, emotional shifts, and high stakes all offer opportunities to play with pitch and pace. Bring a story that lets you stretch into your own use of pitch and pace, or one that illustrates what can go wrong when pitch and pace are misused or misinterpreted.
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STORY HOUR
Pivotal moments in our lives are excellent fodder for stories. These are the moments when our values are challenged, or our mettle is put to the test. They’re the moments that redirect the trajectory of our lives—for better or for worse. Sometimes they’re as small as a poignant comment or a single phone call. Sometimes it’s the moment someone enters or leaves our lives. Sometimes it’s a seismic event that radically transforms everything around us. What are the moments that made you?
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Join us on February 1st from 2 PM to 2:30 PM EST for an insightful webinar that will help your employees follow through and achieve their performance goals.
STORY HOUR
Today we will share stories inspired by “Surprise!”
We choose this prompt because the surprises of our lives easily lend themselves to great storytelling. Surprises are rooted in the unexpected, so they are coupled with meaning making. Consider the last time you were surprised. What did it mean to you? What happened as a result?
Alternatively, stories can be engineered to surprise an audience. Consider a story you tell often. How might you restructure or reframe it to surprise your audience?
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Join us 06 December 2023, 2:00 - 2:30 PM
We’ll share some client stories that illustrate the full breadth of what we can do, and show you some our latest innovations.
STORY HOUR
Today's theme is Revisit: Retell a story you’ve told at Story Hour before. We choose this prompt because although we welcome repeat stories, we don’t often get them! Choose a story you’ve told before, and try to give it another spin. Imagine a different audience or context in which you might tell the story, or tweak your theme to be slightly different. We’re curious to see how stories evolve and where you’re able to take your story after a feedback session.
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STORY HOUR
Today's theme is Make it relatable: A story that embeds data. We choose this prompt because weaving data into a story is a skill unto itself. Consider questions that are best answered with some hard data or information, and figure out how to carry that information through a narrative storyline that appeals to the head AND the heart. We’ll use this Story Hour to focus on how data can effectively be wrapped into storylines so that the information is more easily remembered and better contextualized.
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Join us on November 2nd from 1:00 PM to 1:30 PM for an insightful webinar that will equip you with the skills and strategies to transition from being a manager to a true leader.
This is our foundational workshop with a twist. The story prompts will focus on the contexts where women feel the greatest need to show up powerfully; salary negotiations, asking for a promotion, presenting to executive leadership, landing a new client, (whatever that means to you), etc.
STORY HOUR
Today's theme is Values in Action: Illustrate how an organizational or personal value comes to life. We choose this prompt because communicating our values—whether personal or organizational—is often best done with illustrative stories. Choose a moment, decision, interaction, or choice that highlights how you live a value, or a value comes to life within your company. Help your audience understand why that value matter, but more importantly, the impact of living by that value.
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STORY HOUR
Today's theme is Change My Mind: A story to convince me to a new point of view. We choose this prompt because storytelling is a powerful way to influence and persuade another person. Pick a topic or issue near to you, and craft a story that will convince your audience of your point of view. Try to answer the question, why should I agree with you?
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STORY HOUR
Today's theme is Oops: A moment where you failed. We choose this prompt because failure stories are a great way for us to communicate both our humanity and wisdom together. Admitting failure is inherently vulnerable, and it sets you up to be relatable. But it’s from failure that we often learn valuable lessons, allowing us to impart wisdom onto our audience. Consider moments where you messed up and what you learned as a result. Craft that story and bring it to Story Hour!
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WEBINAR
In this webinar, we will apply key insights from influential storytelling to the presentation development process. We’ll highlight common mistakes presenters make, and offer ways to more effectively design your presentation so that it galvanizes your audience and effectively communicates your message.
STORY HOUR
Today's theme is Career Narrative: Where you come from and where you’re going. We choose this prompt because this is a story you will always be telling… in an interview, at a cocktail party, when meeting new people, and when convincing your boss you deserve a promotion. Knowing this story cold, and being able to adapt it to your audience on the fly is critical to your capacity to appear credible, relatable, and interesting all at the same time.
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WORKSHOP
Craft a story that will inspire your team and lend you gravitas.
Storytelling is one of the most important skills a product leader can develop to inspire others to join them because it leverages the rational, social, and emotional decision-making in all of us. Effective storytelling can make the difference between achieving compliance and galvanizing teams of champions around your product.
STORY HOUR
Today's theme is Growth: Stepping outside your comfort zone. We choose this prompt because leaders who can effectively communicate their own growth stories are fundamentally perceived as more humble, relatable, and inspirational. Consider moments of failure, experiments you tried that you learned from, times when you were afraid and had to lean into courage… these are moments where stepping outside your comfort zone is a necessity. Perhaps you learned something along the way?
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STORY HOUR
Today's theme is Growth: Stepping outside your comfort zone. We choose this prompt because leaders who can effectively communicate their own growth stories are fundamentally perceived as more humble, relatable, and inspirational. Consider moments of failure, experiments you tried that you learned from, times when you were afraid and had to lean into courage… these are moments where stepping outside your comfort zone is a necessity. Perhaps you learned something along the way?
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STORY HOUR
Today's theme is The “Why”: Why hire you, buy from you, work for you, invest in you, etc.. We choose this prompt because leaders need to effectively communicate the value they provide in ways that don’t feel “salesy” or contrived. The best way to do that is by building authentic connection, and stories are a powerful tool to do just that. These stories are also valuable in many contexts; interviews, pitch competitions, when asking for more resources, you name it!
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WORKSHOP
Transform an anecdote into a story that will inspire your customers.
Storytelling is one of the most important skills a salesperson can develop to inspire others during the sales process; it leverages the rational, social, and emotional decision-making in all of us. Explore what it takes to use influential storytelling in your sales conversations via a highly interactive, virtual workshop about influential storytelling in sales.
STORY HOUR
Today's theme is Shortest month of the year: Tell a 30-60 second story. We choose this prompt because the skill of tightening a story into a 30-60 second sound byte is extremely valuable. This will allow you to extemporaneously insert stories into your day-to-day conversation more easily. Bring any story idea that you have, but challenge yourself to tell it while still leveraging all four super powers before a minute is up.
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On February 2nd, Kara and Stephanie are available all day, exclusively, for free presentation coaching sessions. Book a free 30-min session with either of them for some advice and pointers.
All you need to bring with you is your questions and/or presentation.
