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This week’s recording, notes, and resources from The Leadership Club™ (TLC) Monday Mastermind
One Story You Need to Tell Today: What success looks like going forward…
This week’s Insight: Leadership Storytelling
As you know, I love to use stories (and my photography by extension) to convey ideas, inspire growth, and create memorable or notable learning experiences. In this week’s TLC call, I shared how Storytelling can be your Leadership Power Tool to engage, simplify, inspire/motivate, transmit culture, build trust, and share insights.
Storytelling works because it’s emotional, memorable, clear, concise, easy to understand, and keeps things consistent.
You may even already be using storytelling to:
We covered four different methods of storytelling. So grab a pen and paper and watch these mini-clips from the session. You can also watch the full episode at the top of the page.
Four Methods of Storytelling
Feel, felt, found
Hero’s Journey
Pixar
TLC Effective Model
#1 Feel, Felt, Found Storytelling
We’ve all heard this format/method of storytelling. It’s also known as the “infomercial model”
“I understand how you feel...”
“Others felt that way when...”
“What they found was...”
(…and of course, the implied “but wait! There’s more!)
#2 Hero’s Journey Storytelling
This model can be found in many classic stories, from Luke Skywalker to Frodo Baggins, to Harry Potter, we can see how the hero’s journey can lead us through a series of phases that carry the main character through changes or challenges and envision triumph at the end.
