How can you get your colleagues and management to actively support your business process excellence efforts and facilitate needed changes? What can you do to get them to understand and value your work and contributions to bottom-line results? Is there a way you can quickly communicate data and complex information so decisions can be made and follow through can happen? Try stories – well-crafted, compelling stories can get you these outcomes plus help you build personal and organizational credibility.
The Performance Excellence Network, Southeast Region, is pleased to announce a special workshop “Wake Me up When the Data Is Over: Making an Impact through Stories” December 5 in the Twin Cities. The workshop will be facilitated by Lori Silverman.
Learn why stories resonate with people and what makes them more effective than examples, anecdotes, and case studies. Discover myriad sources for stories, how to elicit them from others, ways to capture them, and how to structure their content for maximum impact. Take away key insights and proven practices from organizations such as Spare Key, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lockheed Martin, Molson Coors Brewing Company, State of WI Department of Natural Resources, FivePoint Federal Credit Union, the Association for Public Health Laboratories, Rush Copley Medical Center, Hewlett-Packard, and dozens of others across the world, both large and small, that consciously and purposefully employ this approach.
Objectives: At the end of this workshop, you will be able to …
- Distinguish between a story and other narrative forms (examples, descriptions, anecdotes, case studies, etc.).
- Select the best story(ies) to use in a specific situation.
- Effectively elicit stories from others to heighten rapport and strengthen relationships.
- Attach story triggers to stories to increase their memorability.
- Construct a compelling story that sparks change and is recalled over and over again.
- Alter the length of a story for specific uses.
- Integrate story techniques into various facets of your daily work.
About Lori Silverman
As a strategist and the owner of Partners for Progress®, a management firm dedicated to helping organizations think and act differently, for the last two decades Lori Silverman has consulted across more than 25 different industries on implementing messy, complex organizational changes and creating viable long-term strategies to increase success. Organizations she has worked with include Chevron, Bechtel, Redwood Credit Union, Jones Dairy Farm, Mental Health Management, Duquesne University, the American College of Veterinary Pathologists, the Association for Public Health Laboratories, YMCA of the Inland Northwest, Lucent, Thrivent Financial, American Family Insurance and the U.S. Air Force Reserves.
A nationally recognized keynote speaker and member of the National Speakers Association, Lori has inspired thousands of people to take action on topics ranging from schmoozing, to strategic planning in uncertain times, the use of story in business, and persuasion and influence. She also speaks as an ad hoc instructor at the Fluno Center for Executive Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lori has published over one hundred articles and workbooks on strategic planning, teams, quality, value creation and change and has appeared on more than 70 radio and TV shows to talk about using story techniques at work to gain tangible bottom-line results. Lori is the co-author of Critical Shift: The Future of Quality in Organizational Performance and Stories Trainers Tell. Her 2006 book, Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over: How Organizations Use Stories to Drive Results, debuted in the top 100 books on Amazon. Business Storytelling for Dummies, co-authored with Karen Dietz, PhD, will be out in late 2013.
For more information, see www.partnersforprogress.com and www.wakeupmycompany.com.
