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Attention all business story tellers - Unleash the power of corporate storytelling and the use of metaphor in your organisation.

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Downloadable eBooks & e-WorkBooks in .pdf format, Storytelling Articles, Monthly Newsletters on Story Telling in Business, Audio Streams, Workshops, Interaction with Story Tellers Graham & Dorian, Self Assessment Tools and more aimed at:
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- Speakers
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- Business Leaders
- Coaches
- Managers
- Project Teams
- Sales Teams
- Service Providers
- HR Practitioners

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Story & Metaphors for Speakers

If you...

  • want to develop your mindfulness and imagination;
  • want to be more charismatic and influential;
  • want to enrich and enliven your conversations;
  • want to be highly valued by your colleagues and friends;
  • desire to tap into the minds of others at a deep level;
  • need your ideas and offers accepted, speak with authority and impart unforgettable messages;
  • are a trainer needing to deliver insights effortlessly;
  • want to really listen to what your clients want from you, and impress with your responses using metaphors & anecdotes;
  • want to invoke, listen and capture stories in order to make sense of and respond to situations;
  • want to succeed and get the right results when faced with crucial conversations;
  • Register Here transcend limiting beliefs;

    …then become a member of The Halo & the Noose storytelling movement now!

Members have access to an ongoing and growing list of story-telling and listening resources:

  1. Downloadable eBook in pdf format- "The Halo and the Noose" valued at $10;
  2. Downloadable eWorkbook in pdf format - "Story Matters @ Work" valued at $10;
  3. Monthly newsletter with a story/ metaphor of the month, news, quotable quotes, and notes on the philosophy of stories in the workplace; (see our Newsletter Archive here)
  4. Multimedia content covering the use of story in business, accessing-constructing-telling-listening,
    meaning-mindfulness, mindfulness and story, stories, metaphors & analogies for speakers, leaders, trainers, coaches, salespersons; (access Multimedia here)
  5. Articles on all aspects of story telling and listening, engaging employees, working teams, customer service; (see Articles Archive here)
  6. Tools such as an emotional money test, self-reflection and organizational culture and climate questionnaires; (see list of Tools here)
  7. Dialogue with the authors on any aspect of storytelling and listening;
  8. Story Workshop discounts;

    ...only $25 $15 for an Individual Lifetime Membership OR $150 $100 for
    Corporate Memberships with unlimited user accounts.

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Featuring "The Halo and the Noose" eBook

“This is the best e-book about leadership and business that I have seen in a long time. It is fresh, interesting, needed and written to reach out and touch the toughest part of each of us. This is not about story telling, but more importantly, about how we can all change our story and create a future distinct from the past. Read this ebook”. - Peter Block author (Flawless Consulting) and consultant partner in Designed Learning, USA. Masters Degree in Industrial Administration (Yale)

A Sea of StoriesThe Halo and the Noose eBook
The Power of Story-telling and Story-listening in Business Life

Recent research is showing that story & metaphor is a way to engage the disengaged in the workplace, that listeners suspend disbelief and counter-argument, that people prefer reaching their own insights, that well told stories stick in the memory and stimulate action. Given the current economic climate this ebook is a vital read.

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The Halo & the Noose eBook

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The "Story Matters @ Work" eWorkbook

A companion Workbook to The Halo and the Noose containing:

  • 45 practical exercises for the workplace
  • 60 new stories
  • lots of practical tips and explanations on Elevator stories, The Corporate story, Sharing a personal story at work, Story and Training, Problems and decisions changes, Change challenges, Belonging and connecting, Crucial conversations, Prospecting and selling, Service and sales loop, Shared values, Business measures, Metaphor research and use, Poetry.

This resource is highly recommended for speakers, presenters, trainers, coaches, leaders, managers, sales persons and service providers. Buy this eWorkbook (or simply register to download this workbook in .pdf format and more) to become different and better at all story matters @ work!

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Story Matters @ Work eWorkbook

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Free to Members

Story Telling WorkshopsCorporate Story Telling & Listening Workshops

We offer customised and open corporate workshops that cover all aspects of story in business, filled with aha and haha moments, are highly participative and interactive and equip participants with valuable new skills, storytelling techniques and a toolbox.

Find out more About Corporate Workshops | Discounted Rates to Members - Register Now

July 23, 2012
ADVANCED CORPORATE NARRATIVE WORKSHOP

An experiential workshop for CEOs, Marketing Directors, HR Directors, and all who want to grow themselves and galvanise their organisations through the power of story.

Discover the psychology and pattern of narrative, and ways to make sense of issues using anecdote circles and appreciative inquiry, forge emotional connections to the brand, elicit metaphors as a deep research tool, and much more…

The event will take place at Eagle’s Nest Estate, Johannesburg.

For more information, registration, contact events@management-today.co.za or call 079 296 6375

31 Aug – 2 Sep , 2012
Living Your Storied Life

Identify the life-stage you are in, discover your purpose, see your life as an unfolding story, and enter the adventure and become fully alive.

How we interpret the narratives within our Life Story is crucial in influencing our life affirming energy, centredness, creativity and vitality, and countering the destructiveness and self-sabotage that can happen along the way.

Fear and Love are key emotions as our lives engage with inevitable change and loss. When we leave a relationship, the country, lose our health, or change our jobs we are confronted with challenges to our identity, contentment and equilibrium. We are thrust into transition – uncharted territory of mind and heart, a place of insecurity, uncertainty, stress, energy-depletion. Yet also a place of new insights and self-discovery that can enrich, restore our balance and renew us. New beginnings.

By opening up to story, anecdote and metaphor we can become liberated, begin to hear and tell our work and personal lives in new and vital ways, discover the ‘hero within’, become our own therapist, embrace transformation. Like the lotus flower, we bloom and seed new beginnings. We reach into what may be murky depths and produce something of infinite beauty and worth.

An experiential and practical retreat that equips participants with tools to act with greater awareness, calmness, imagination and courage.

Facilitated by Peter Fox and Graham Williams

For booking information email info@bkr.co.za

From Jan 2012
Workshop: Café Table Conversations and Campfire Chats

A unique year-start event for your staff... introduce them to an exciting new way of communicating, sharing, passing on information, knowledge and wisdom. This will improve team dynamics and assertiveness as well as being alot of fun.

Entertaining, Enlivening, Educational, Motivational. Geared to your needs.

Contact us now or email centserv@iafrica.com

From Jan 2012
Creative Writing Coaching & Mentoring Program

Let free what has been hiding inside you for too long. Embrace writing, the easiest of arts. Overcome what has been holding you back. Learn the skills of writing in business and social contexts. Get noticed. Make an impact.

Contact us to find out about live courses, coaching and on-line mentoring.

“If we were taught to speak the way we were taught to write we would all stutter.” Mark Twain


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