Welcome to the Online
Story-powered Leadership Resource Centre

 
These resources accompany the Story-Powered Leadership workshop.

 

PART 3: BUILDING RAPPORT AND CONNECTION
 

In the workshop we demonstrated how connection stories can be used very effectively to build connection and rapport very quickly. We also demonstrated that asserting your credentials can cause the audience to think poorly of you.

Here are some additional resources to help you find, refine and tell connection stories in a business context.

eBook
Character trumps credentials
This eBook contains 170 questions designed to help leaders find and tell personal stories in a business context to make a business point.
www.anecdote.com/character-trumps-credentials
Blog post
Why aren’t we telling stories in business?
Every story we tell reveals something about our character. This makes it risky to tell stories in a business situation. This article examines some of the implications of this issue.
www.anecdote.com/2015/01/telling-stories-in-business
blog post
Connection story masterclass
This article describes how simple and effective it can be when a leader uses a personal story to build a connection with their teams.
www.anecdote.com/2014/09/effective-leaders-good-storytellers
Blog post
Telling personal stories without ego
A common concern with connection stories is that they might make you seem like an ego-maniac. It’s easy to avoid and this article tells you how.
www.anecdote.com/2009/03/how-tell-story-about-yourself-without-sounding-like-ego-maniac