Leading with Stories

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Paul A. Smith

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01 - Introduction

01 - Addressing leadership with story.mp4

01:19

02 - 1. Leadership and Storytelling

01 - What a leadership story is and is not.mp4

04:43

02 - Why storytelling works.mp4

03:12

03 - When to tell leadership stories.mp4

04:09

03 - 2. Finding Great Leadership Stories

01 - What makes a great story a great story.mp4

03:50

02 - Choose the right story to tell.mp4

01:47

04 - 3. Story Structure

01 - Story structures.mp4

03:16

02 - The hook.mp4

03:06

03 - The context.mp4

01:45

04 - Challenge conflict and resolution.mp4

02:21

05 - Lesson and action.mp4

01:06

05 - 4. Story Elements

01 - Create an emotional connection.mp4

03:01

02 - Surprise.mp4

03:42

06 - Conclusion

01 - Next steps.mp4

01:41

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Storytelling is essential to good leadership. When delivered correctly, a good story can help you articulate a vision, lead change, inspire creativity and innovation, and get employees to work together more collaboratively than you could ever do without a good story. In this course, best-selling author and storytelling expert Paul Smith digs into the essential elements of a great narrative, explaining how to craft and deliver compelling leadership stories that inspire and motivate employees. Paul explains the right story structure, how to create emotional engagement, and even how to create a surprise ending that ensures your story will be remembered and acted upon. This course will make you a better storyteller, and a better leader.

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Paul A. Smith

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Paul Smith is one of the world’s leading experts in business storytelling, one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers of 2018, a storytelling coach, and bestselling author of the books The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell, Lead with a Story, Sell with a Story, Parenting with a Story, and Four Days with Kenny Tedford. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Forbes, Fast Company, The Washington Post, PR News, CIO Magazine, Investors Business Daily, Marketing Research Magazine, the American Banking Journal, and London’s Edge Magazine, among others. In his 20 years with Procter & Gamble, Paul held leadership positions in both research and finance functions, and most recently served as director of consumer and communications research. Prior to P&G, Paul was a consultant for Arthur Andersen & Company. His keynote speaking and training clients include international giants like Google, Hewlett Packard, Bayer Medical, Walmart, Kaiser Permanente, Ford Motor Company, Luxottica, and Procter & Gamble among dozens of others. Paul holds a bachelors degree in economics, and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives with his wife and two sons in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason, Ohio. Contact information: Web: www.LeadWithAStory.com Email: [email protected] Twitter: @LeadWithAStory LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/smithpa9 Facebook: www.facebook.com/leadwithastory Instagram: www.instagram.com/leadwithastory

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