Why Should Leaders Be Good At Telling Stories?

A colleague asked me why leadership storytelling is very important for leadership.

Storytelling is a key leadership skill, because it is fast, powerful, free, natural, refreshing and inspiring. It is cooperative, persuasive and comprehensive, giving pleasure, moving, unforgettable and real feeling.

The story can help us understand the operation of the company better.

Leadership discourse is not only a basic tool for completing tasks: it is a way of leadership - no matter where he lives - to specifically express the changes he seeks.

It is not just support or opposition to proposals - it can only lead to more arguments - leaders can establish trust and reliability by telling stories they have experienced.

When people who listen to stories believe in these stories, they will resonate and inspire creativity, interaction and change.

Stories are usually the best way to communicate with leaders.

Why? It is naturally suitable for dealing with the most difficult leadership problems today: stimulating change, conveying self worth and strengthening.

Stories can pform dull and abstract figures into convincing images that reflect leaders' goals.

Although successful business cases are superimposed by numbers, they are generally recognized on the basis of Narration - that is to say, a series of events are linked together in a causal order.

Storytelling is very important for management and leadership, because there is usually no other way.

The diagrams are too difficult to understand, and the words are too boring, and talking alone is too time-consuming and laborious.

Again and again, it is the only way to persuade a group of managers and front-line employees in a big company to be enthusiastic about a major change.

Storytelling can motivate people to do things that are unfamiliar and usually unpopular.

This is a dizzy amount of data and slides that can't be done.

It is not always useful to move out big ideas for reform.

But effective storytelling skills can usually be done.

In most cases, storytelling is better than "lower order".

Various fashionable practices in management may be popular for a while, but storytelling is a basic phenomenon for all countries, societies and cultures, and has always been true since ancient times.

Leadership discourse is a tool to stimulate continuous creativity. It is an irresistible force that pushes us to the future and the unknown to create new world and new structure.

Storytelling is a part of creativity, and the purpose is to create a new future.

Through the amazing power of imagination, leadership discourse can help institutions change, even if they have large organizations.

It can turn things around by some abstract things and simple ideas.

It is about freedom, interaction and endogenous growth.

Its operation goes beyond simple linear logic.

It shows great interest in unknown fields as well as areas that are well known.

Storytelling is a key means of leadership, because it helps us to regard the company as a life that needs care, maintenance and encouragement.

Its growth depends on incentives rather than control, rather than stagnation on reform.

By inspiring the energy needed for reform, leadership is about liberating innovation.

Telling us helps us understand this rapidly changing world.

What interests us is the new generation of reform, not just the inference of the status quo.

It deals with dizzying, emerging phenomena and stages of change, and by definition, they have jumped out of the rules of the past.

Tell us about the future that helps us to develop in an unpredictable way.

Traditional management techniques fail to realize that we cannot make a measurement of tomorrow because we do not know what it will develop.

Narration is a natural means of reform, because it mobilizes people to participate actively.

It exists in those people who act together, think, talk, discuss, chat, joke, complain, dream, pain and joy, and form a company among them.

On the contrary, traditional management models focus on those inanimate factors - task statement, formal strategy, project, procedure, process, system, budget, property - the inanimate things and things in the company.

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It gives us the opportunity to communicate with the company's life so that they can make decisions for creating and maintaining the company's prescribed procedures and objects.

Narration is a weapon for advocating change. Their goal is to continue reform and create a fruitful tomorrow.

Those who only aim at control will find that storytelling is not a very useful or important tool.

For them, the important thing is how to immerse themselves in yesterday's good performance and adapt to it.

Storytelling is more than just a tool.

It pcends any tool - almost a necessary condition for existence.

To say what it can provide, it brings new depth and breadth to our perspective.

It enables us to override the world of meaning and logic and reach another realm, where the deeper meaning is revealed.

When we hear a story that deeply touches us, our life will be full of meaning.

As an audience, we move ourselves to the most important thing.

Once we have established such a connection and feel a sense of magic, though it will not last long and we will inevitably fall back to the daze of everyday life, what is different is that our understanding may have changed a lot.

The story is from the outside, but the understanding of the meaning is from the heart.

When a story reaches us in a deep sense, it will attract us.

Once so, even if it is forgotten like the past, its meaning remains in our hearts.

This experience will not tire me.

At the moment when we heard a story, we began to look forward to the second.

We want more, and we can not say that it also has the power to create some connection between the ego and the universe.

It can dilute our control and its uneasiness, know that the world has the ability to organize itself, realize that one of the tasks of management is to catalyze this ability, and at the same time inspire, create, inspire, unify, promote the emerging truth, praise the complexity, fuzziness and chaos of life.