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To live a great story, don’t wish away the pain. To tell a great story, don’t pretend there wasn’t any.
There is a famous saying from Theodore Roosevelt that is often quoted as “Nothing worth having comes easy.” Dig around the internet a little and you will find the accurate quote. It is far richer and more powerful than the popular paraphrase. Roosevelt actually said, “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing […]
- June 27, 2023
- By: Colleen
- Category: Uncategorised
“What do I say now?” How good segues strengthen your ideas, make your slide transitions sing, and add meaning to your stories.
“I was just listening to the BBC and they were doing a story on a 14 year old girl killed by cannibals in prehistoric America. Next thing I knew they were talking about wine. For just a second I thought the were recommending the best wine to go with human flesh, then I realized I […]
- May 11, 2023
- By: Colleen
- Category: Uncategorised
How Mistakes Create Critical Business Stories That Build Resilience – The Story Compass Series: Knowledge Stories
The Oxford dictionary defines resilience in two ways: The capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness The ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity For us humans, the first is a good literal translation. The second is a wonderful metaphor for recovering quickly. And isn’t that […]
- April 24, 2023
- By: Colleen
- Category: Uncategorised
Say It With Charts!
Don’t data dump! Inspired by my favorite data storytelling book, Say It With Charts by Gene Zelazny, these two videos will help you tell a story with your data. How should you present a chart? Be a good movie director using a wide shot, medium shot and close shot. Grappling with how much information to […]
- October 24, 2022
- By: admin
- Category: Uncategorised
Don’t present your chart… direct it!
Last week, I had to stop a presenter as he was mid-way through explaining his chart. “Can you back up?” I asked. “I think I first need to understand what the numbers on the side mean.” It happens a lot. After spending a few days or even weeks synthesizing data, pulling out the meaning and […]
- September 16, 2022
- By: admin
- Category: Uncategorised
If You Want To Blow Any Computer Out Of The Water…Tell A Story.
A few years ago in a session of The Story Compass, a participant asked me, “Don’t you think storytelling is a bit primitive? I think we’ll evolve past it, communicate in a more sophisticated way.” My first thought was, “Whoah! Slow down buddy. You just called the whole course into question!” Then I thought about […]
- March 22, 2022
- By: admin
- Category: Uncategorised
Carly Franklin
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR When Carly Franklin tears out a stitch, she doesn’t see that as a failure with her sewing. For Carly, that is sewing. “Just because something is stitched together doesn’t mean that’s how it will stay.” For Carly, this truth also applies to life. When Carly applied to the Ontario College of Art and […]
- October 21, 2021
- By: admin
- Category: associates
Have a fast car? Who cares? What’s your story?
One evening last week, I warmed up two chocolate chip cookies and, at the urging of my dad, sat down to watch Formula 1: Drive to Survive on Netflix. By the end of three episodes, I had decided two things. First, I would ask my son to hide the cookies. Second, I would be watching […]
- April 11, 2021
- By: admin
- Category: Uncategorised
In This COVID Crisis, We Don’t Need Corporate Jargon. Please.
Fear of the unknown. Is there anyone not feeling this right now? If our usual changes at work are like Gandalf showing up at our cottage door and asking, “Hey, want to go to Mordor and destroy this dangerous ring?”, COVID is the unmarked van that peeled up onto the sidewalk, threw us in the back, […]
- April 18, 2020
- By: admin
- Category: Uncategorised
Stop Ignoring Them! How to Engage Your Audience Tip #1
“Tell them that joke you know.” When we think of engaging our audiences, we often think of things like telling a story, a joke, making eye contact or asking a question. And those are great suggestions. (Unless you’re not funny. Then – please – avoid the joke.) But what about giving them a voice? You […]
- February 11, 2020
- By: admin
- Category: Uncategorised
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