Circle of the 9 Muses (ePub)

The action-based guide to powerful, influential organizational
storytelling

Circle of the 9 Muses captures the best practices of the
world's most influential story consultants and knowledge workers to
help you find, tell, and draw value from your organizational
stories as impetus for action. This rich toolbox is loaded with
fun, graphical instructions and dozens of unique, replicable, and
facilitated processes that require no special training or
expertise. You'll discover your organization's hidden narrative
assets, use different templates and frameworks to tell the stories
of your past, present, and future and then draw team members into
rich meaning-making dialogue that translates into action. These
activities can be exercised in endless permutations, and expert
advice steers you toward the right activity for a specific purpose,
including managing change, setting strategy, onboarding, defining
the brand, engaging supporters or customers, merging cultures,
building trust, and much more.

Organizational storytelling is a powerful managerial tool and an
essential change management technique. This is about your influence
as a leader. Knowing the right story to tell and how to deliver it
effectively gives you and your organization enormous influence, and
helps connect employees to strategy by providing understanding,
belief, and motivation in their personal contribution. This book is
the ultimate field guide to becoming an influential storyteller,
with concrete, actionable guidance toward all the storytelling
fundamentals.

* Identify your organization's "narrative assets"

* Craft an elegant, well-constructed organizational story

* Capture, bank, and share stories with extraordinary
engagement

* Facilitate a dialogue to draw out meaning and induce
change

The growing interest surrounding organizational storytelling has
many change agents focused on "trying to tell better stories," but
goals are useless without a plan of action. Circle of the 9
Muses helps you weave narrative wisdom into organizational
development activities, engaging employees and driving change.