Okay, so you’ve got a talk coming up in three days and you haven’t done a thing. You’re about to stand up in front of 300 people you’ve never met. Your job is to inspire them. No small task, and yet you keep procrastinating. After all, your world is already full…and you’ve spoken many times. Yet you…
READ MOREThis is the first in a series of three pieces on getting your speaking up to speed. Palm trees and hammock-lined sands had become terrifying in seconds. My wade into waist-deep water turned into a torrent that was now pulling me into the crushing waves. Just offshore from my new favorite place in Parque Tayrona,…
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As you tell your story, a few people in the audience might have a question in their head that they’re not asking. The question is this: “Why are you telling me this?” Maybe they’re just excited to get the upshot. Or maybe they’re impatient, or even skeptical you’re taking them somewhere worth going. Don’t worry.…
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For more than 30 years, Enterprise Community Partners has touched millions of lives by creating hundreds of thousands of homes – and investing billions of dollars – in communities nationwide. Challenge: Because of the breadth and depth of Enterprise’s work as a collection of for-profit and non-profit organizations, the Enterprise Marketing & Communications team sought…
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Part of Facebook’s mission is to ‘make the world more open and connected.’ And connection comes from the center. In working with Facebook’s University Recruiting, Retellable supported their ongoing goal of securing the best talent in the world in a competitive race with other Silicon Valley tech firms. Facebook enlisted us specifically to motivate and…
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It’s no easy task for a tech company to create an attractive distinction through culture. And yet that’s just what LinkedIn set out to do with InDay: every month, LinkedIn provides one day for employees to transform themselves, their teams and their community. Challenge: With thousands of employees around the world and hundreds of different…
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Business Challenge: Leaders at the Department of Public Health/Injury Prevention division in Hawaii were having a hard time talking about injury prevention without getting stuck in big problems – or swamped in data. Whether it was talking about drowning prevention, traffic safety, or suicide prevention, they needed a way to deliver their messages and connect…
READ MOREMy mind was being blown. I was 23, graduated college, sold my first business, and had dedicated myself to traveling for as long as I could. New languages, new places, new people; every day seemed to be a new revelation. On a short stint home after returning home from Southeast Asia, I was staying with…
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You may not have climbed K2 yesterday, or sold your company, or cured malaria. But well-told, your experiences make an impact on your audience. “The shape of the stories are what matters, and not their origins,” said Kurt Vonnegut in a lecture at Wittenberg University in 1982. Drawing on the chalkboard, he wrote GF for…
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