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Your Biggest Blind Spot Is You

Decker Communication

It’s a self-imposed weakness for which audiences pay the price in the form of doubtfulness, demotivation, and boredom. Videotaping is ubiquitous in the development of world-class athletes. But no matter how good the stories are, success or failure is determined by the speaker, the storyteller.

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Counting Down C-Suite Communication Accelerators – Opportunity #4

Decker Communication

Opportunity #4 – Skipping Opportunities to Tell Stories The Challenge: Decision makers and their audiences are continuously inundated with facts and figures. You are pressured with the minutiae of the day; operating daily in response to market demands, you tend to think in facts, tasks, concepts, numbers, etc. Become a storyteller.

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73 Creative Job Titles in Corporate America

HR Digest

Sous Chef (Product development Head). Creator of Opportunities (Business Development Lead). Culture operations manager (HR Officer). Software Ninjaneer (Software Developer). Digital Overlord (Website Developer). Director of Storytelling (Social Media Analyst). Chief Inspiration Officer (Operations Head).

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Communicating for Digital Transformation

Decker Communication

I want to talk about how developing a digital culture can lead to breakthrough performance and truly transformative outcomes. Audience feedback indicated that he was the event’s highest-rated speaker. Culture is the key success factor, the secret sauce. This is communications training for champions of Digital Transformation.

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My Top 10 Leadership Insights For 2017

Tanveer Naseer

With the New Year now well under way, many of us are understandably creating goals and developing plans for what we’d like to achieve over the course of the next 12 months. Leadership Insight #10 – Becoming a leader is not about promoting yourself; it’s about helping others to succeed and thrive [ Share on Twitter ].

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Use Storytelling to Explain Your Company’s Purpose

Harvard Business Review

But activating purpose is impossible without storytelling, at both the corporate and individual levels. Storytelling is a skill that leaders can — and should — hone. Ganz has developed a simple framework for those hoping to develop a narrative approach to their purpose-driven organizations: “ Self, Us, Now.”

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For a Powerful Presentation, Begin with a Bang, Finish with a Flourish

Strategy Driven

Once you’ve analyzed your audience and determined what you want to say, give lots of attention to the presentation’s two most critical parts: the opening and the close. They’re the parts the audience will remember best – and each of them serves a vital purpose. Every successful communicator is a great storyteller.

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