Archive for June, 2008

Employee engagement interest in storytelling

Posted by  Mark Schenk —June 30, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

A few weeks back, Alex Manchester from Melcrum interviewed me on various issues around storytelling. He approached me following the large amount of interest in …

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Recognition, praise, credit

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 30, 2008
Filed in Culture

“Credit is infinitely divisible. Give it away every chance you get, and there’s always plenty left for you.” Don Berwick, Head if Institute of Healthcare …

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Leaders need to listen

Posted by  Mark Schenk —June 28, 2008
Filed in Anecdotes, Strategy

Deborah May provided the following account in her recent newsletter. Most leaders want to engage their team in planning processes but don’t always do so …

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Vital behaviours for communities of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 27, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

Over at the Influencer blog David Maxfield has written a four post series on improving teamwork based on one of the key insights from his …

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Guide to anecdote circles

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 27, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling, News

I’ve just realised that our Guide to Anecdote Circles has been kind of hidden on our website so I have popped a copy of the …

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Innovators are a bad choice for change

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 22, 2008
Filed in Anecdotes

I’m thoroughly enjoying reading Influencer at the moment and the story of Dr Everett Rogers grabbed my attention. After finishing his PhD his first job …

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Indexing books with stories

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 19, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

I’ve started a new practice of jotting down, inside the front cover of a book, the anecdotes it contains. It seems to work best for …

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A column in The Sydney Morning Herald on collaboration

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 16, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

Today I have a short column in SMH on the theme of team and community collaboration for small to medium enterprises.

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Storytelling and leadership

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 16, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

It’s obvious to most people that good leaders are good storytellers. Stories help inspire action because they transport the listener to experience the events recounted …

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Anecdote receive award for best learning website in Asia Pacific

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 16, 2008
Filed in News

We were the very last award to be handed out at last week’s LearnX conference and Robyn and I walked up to the podium to …

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