wisdom circles for organizations
DESCRIPTION
A brief presentation on why businesses need to create opportunities for their employees to share their personal "wisdom stories" with each other – a simple way to make tacit knowledge explicit and build communities of support.TRANSCRIPT
WISDOM AT WORKThe Power of Personal Storytelling
to Spark Insight, Breakthrough, and Lifelong Innovation
Mitchell Lewis Ditkoff
IMAGINE
you only had 5 minutes to spark innovation in your company
What would you do?
That’s not a lot of time
Play Mozart in the hallways?
Cite the latest data?
Share best practices?
Launch an incentive program?
Present a case study?
Collect ideas from your workforce?
NOPE!
STORY
Better to tell a really memorable
Storytelling is the most powerful way
to deliver a memorable
message and the most effective way to
transmit meaning, knowledge and
collective wisdom.
as long as the story sparks insight, breakthrough and wisdom – and the
storyteller knows how to tell a really good story.
“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
That’s what WISDOM CIRCLES
are all about
are a highly engaging way to tap intothe tacit knowledge of your workforce,
via the telling of personal stories –memorable moments of truth that have happened on-the-job
and have, embedded within them,great meaning, insight, and learning
with the power to ignite brilliance in others.
WISDOM CIRCLES
TIME TO TELL A NEW STORY
“Over the years I have become convinced that we
learn best – and change – from hearing stories that
strike a chord within us. Those in leadership positions who fail to grasp or use the power of stories risk failure
for themselves and their companies.” – John Kotter
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