What is Narrative Leadership for Business, Education, & Medicine?
For more information or to discuss your narrative leadership needs, please
Send Email or contact us at 1-608-723-7703.
Narrative Leadership
identifies personal stories
that they might be integrated
organically into teams,
synergistically into projects, and
authentically into the organizational culture.
Success emerges from narrative design that resonates with artistry.
Narrative leadership involves
spirit of values, beliefs, intuition, and dreams,
mind of thoughts, emotions, and perspectives,
bodyof play, work, words, and actions,
experience design aligned with your business plan,
and other components of PSI-BETA-BLOC-R8
that weave personal myth and metaphor into illumined reality.
Narrative Leadership Increases Viability and Effectiveness
Facts can inform,
Arguments can persuade, but
A well-crafted story reaches out to connect, captivate, and inspire.
What they say is true: A picture is worth a thousand words. That is because people are innately wired to understand the nature and meaning of human events through images, stories, and metaphor. What is true around the kitchen table and campfire holds around the coffee station and Boardroom as well.
Narrative was not vital to business operations historically because, in the previous industrial and information ages, business could focus on linear processes and logic alone. Facts, tasks, and metrics were sufficient for successful business. But, those days are gone. Most information processes routinely have been off-shored to locales where they can be conducted more efficiently.
Yes, stories are at the heart of human experience. Whether mindfully or not, we all develop stories from our experiences at work and play to give meaning our days. Leaders craft the story for their companies. Leaders who are mindful of the stories they craft, not only make their passion contagious, they inspire those characters around them become a vital part of the story and work toward the same end with excellence.
Leaders who tell compelling stories connect with, captivate, inspire others to a unified purpose and performance excellence. Compelling stories are those that are authentic (ring true) and grounded in reality.
Seven ways that narrative leadership can assist an organization:
1. Unifying vision and purpose
2. Imagining future possibilities
3. Creating personal influence
4. Maturing effective teams
5. Assessing and changing mindset/worldview/culture
6. Sharing knowledge & creating cultural lore
7. Transcending conflict
Successful leaders now recognize that business has entered an innovation age. Unlike the linear view associated with the industrial and information ages, the age of innovation is less direct and more elliptical. Like an orbiting planet, business leaders seeking to maintain a competitive edge, set a culture that values and encourages linear (logical) and spiral (holistic) progress simultaneously. They are adapting and aligning organizational structures, processes, communication, and culture to this spiral worldview. To put it another way, they place information into a narrative that embraces logic and perception. They maintain a systems vision that metaphorically integrates the heart and mind of the organization.
Why include narrative leadership as part of your standard business?
The narrative approach incorporates the basic tenets of cognitive psychology to create a multimedia experience that “speaks” with meaning to the organization. It incorporates the latest research to engage participants, readily tag an experience with relevance, give it meaning and, as a result, heighten ownership, loyalty, retention, and transfer of knowledge, information, and skills into daily practice.
Narrative leadership:
Our professional coaching, consulting, and training includes s various narrative leadership options:
Narrative Leadership—for potential, new, existing, and seasoned leaders in all areas of business, healthcare, service, and education in for-profit and non-profit sectors
Narrative Meetings
Narrative Presentations
Narrative Curriculum—for educators and trainers
identifies personal stories
that they might be integrated
organically into teams,
synergistically into projects, and
authentically into the organizational culture.
Success emerges from narrative design that resonates with artistry.
Narrative leadership involves
spirit of values, beliefs, intuition, and dreams,
mind of thoughts, emotions, and perspectives,
bodyof play, work, words, and actions,
experience design aligned with your business plan,
and other components of PSI-BETA-BLOC-R8
that weave personal myth and metaphor into illumined reality.
Facts can inform,
Arguments can persuade, but
A well-crafted story reaches out to connect, captivate, and inspire.
What they say is true: A picture is worth a thousand words. That is because people are innately wired to understand the nature and meaning of human events through images, stories, and metaphor. What is true around the kitchen table and campfire holds around the coffee station and Boardroom as well.
Narrative was not vital to business operations historically because, in the previous industrial and information ages, business could focus on linear processes and logic alone. Facts, tasks, and metrics were sufficient for successful business. But, those days are gone. Most information processes routinely have been off-shored to locales where they can be conducted more efficiently.
Yes, stories are at the heart of human experience. Whether mindfully or not, we all develop stories from our experiences at work and play to give meaning our days. Leaders craft the story for their companies. Leaders who are mindful of the stories they craft, not only make their passion contagious, they inspire those characters around them become a vital part of the story and work toward the same end with excellence.
Leaders who tell compelling stories connect with, captivate, inspire others to a unified purpose and performance excellence. Compelling stories are those that are authentic (ring true) and grounded in reality.
Seven ways that narrative leadership can assist an organization:
1. Unifying vision and purpose
2. Imagining future possibilities
3. Creating personal influence
4. Maturing effective teams
5. Assessing and changing mindset/worldview/culture
6. Sharing knowledge & creating cultural lore
7. Transcending conflict
Successful leaders now recognize that business has entered an innovation age. Unlike the linear view associated with the industrial and information ages, the age of innovation is less direct and more elliptical. Like an orbiting planet, business leaders seeking to maintain a competitive edge, set a culture that values and encourages linear (logical) and spiral (holistic) progress simultaneously. They are adapting and aligning organizational structures, processes, communication, and culture to this spiral worldview. To put it another way, they place information into a narrative that embraces logic and perception. They maintain a systems vision that metaphorically integrates the heart and mind of the organization.
Narrative leadership:
• Increases collaboration within and between teams
• Assumes greater clarity, relevance, and personal meaning with objectives and goals
• Aligns organizational vision and values with processes, practices, and workforce
• Leverages human potential and talents
• Increases workforce satisfaction
• Designs a holistic experience for a fully integrated culture
• Improves creativity and innovation
• Increases critical thinking
• Increases competence with global skills needed for today’s business success
• Increases satisfaction and loyalty with clients, patients, and students
• Achieves bottom line results by going to the root and focusing on the driving factors rather than the symptoms
• Assumes greater clarity, relevance, and personal meaning with objectives and goals
• Aligns organizational vision and values with processes, practices, and workforce
• Leverages human potential and talents
• Increases workforce satisfaction
• Designs a holistic experience for a fully integrated culture
• Improves creativity and innovation
• Increases critical thinking
• Increases competence with global skills needed for today’s business success
• Increases satisfaction and loyalty with clients, patients, and students
• Achieves bottom line results by going to the root and focusing on the driving factors rather than the symptoms
Our professional coaching, consulting, and training includes s various narrative leadership options:
Narrative Leadership—for potential, new, existing, and seasoned leaders in all areas of business, healthcare, service, and education in for-profit and non-profit sectors
• Coaching — We provide individual coaching on how to implement narrative leadership in your business or practice
• Consulting — We partner with you to design cultural change (e.g., processes, practices, values) or lead a project with a narrative experience for greater effectiveness
• Training — We present an overview of the narrative model to your team to improve cohesiveness, influence, and effectiveness; various formats are available
• Consulting — We partner with you to design cultural change (e.g., processes, practices, values) or lead a project with a narrative experience for greater effectiveness
• Training — We present an overview of the narrative model to your team to improve cohesiveness, influence, and effectiveness; various formats are available
Narrative Meetings
• Coaching — Our individual coaching builds upon meeting process basics to expand your effectiveness, persuasion, and influence
• Consulting — We partner with you to lead meetings with a narrative experience for greater effectiveness
• Consulting — We partner with you to lead meetings with a narrative experience for greater effectiveness
Narrative Presentations
• Coaching — We assist in reviewing and critiquing your presentations for greater effectiveness as part of the coaching process
• Consulting — We partner with you to create narrative presentations for greater effectiveness
• Consulting — We partner with you to create narrative presentations for greater effectiveness
Narrative Curriculum—for educators and trainers
• Coaching — We assist in reviewing and critiquing your curriculum/classroom presentations for greater effectiveness—retention and transfer
• Consulting — We partner with you to design a curriculum/ classroom presentation for greater effectiveness – retention and transfer
• Training — We present an overview of the narrative model to your team to improve cohesiveness, influence, and effectiveness with curriculum; various formats are available
Narrative Medicine—for physicians and healthcare/wellness professionals
• Consulting — We partner with you to design a curriculum/ classroom presentation for greater effectiveness – retention and transfer
• Training — We present an overview of the narrative model to your team to improve cohesiveness, influence, and effectiveness with curriculum; various formats are available
• Coaching — We assist in reviewing and critiquing your narrative skills with patients and clients for greater effectiveness
• Consulting — We partner with you to design cultural change (e.g., processes, practices, values) or lead a project with a narrative experience for greater effectiveness
• Training — We present an overview of the narrative model to your team to improve cohesiveness, influence, and effectiveness; various formats are available
For more information or to discuss your narrative leadership needs, please
Send Email or contact us at 1-608-723-7703.• Consulting — We partner with you to design cultural change (e.g., processes, practices, values) or lead a project with a narrative experience for greater effectiveness
• Training — We present an overview of the narrative model to your team to improve cohesiveness, influence, and effectiveness; various formats are available
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