This series, I'm sharing insights from my book Work/Life Flywheel.
In this episode, I discuss why stories are important to understand what's possible and helping you achieve it.
Chapter Summary:
- Using character-driven stories with emotional content to illustrate your point of view makes it significantly more memorable.
- To reimagine your career, you must first address why you want a change, before crafting the story to help you achieve it.
- To be truly effective, you have to be specific about the new future you're trying to create and bring it to life.
- The ability to communicate effectively helps you build credibility and inspire others.
- You create powerful new possibilities in articulating your ideas and persuading others to join you on your mission by mastering storytelling.
- Recording 'story-worthy' moments allows you to spot trends in your thinking, trigger new ideas, and slow down time.
- Free-writing enables you to recall stories from your past that have helped form your personality and beliefs, helping contextualise decisions you make in the future.
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Work/Life Flywheel: Harness the work revolution and reimagine your career without fear, is out now. You can order your copy HERE (UK) or HERE (US).
Here’s what Marc Effron, author of 8 Steps to High Performance and President of The Talent Strategy Group, has said about it:
“Henderson provides clear direction and practical steps to help you find the work/life harmony that you richly deserve. The Flywheel’s 6 building blocks offer an easy to follow guide for your journey.”
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