corporate storytelling: fifth lecture

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Fifth Lecture: Narrative Leadership

CORPORATE STORYTELLING

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o Decide how to use storytelling• As strategy• As intervention

o Formulate your visiono Access narrative

memory• Collect stories• Convey stories

USING STORYTELLING: BEFORE CHANGE 

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o Collect stories• Assess the process• Assess how change is

experiencedo Have narrative conversations

• To probe• To receive signals

o Analyze the stories being told• Assess commitment• Intervention from the

management needed?• Which stories are needed?

USING STORYTELLING: DURING CHANGE 

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 sjoerd-jeroen moenandarmoenandar@gmail.com http://sjmoenandar.blogspot.com

o Curate narrative memory• The right stories• Corporate story and

organizational stories should fit

o Reflect• Convey and collect stories

to monitor • Telling stories is also

monitoring!

USING STORYTELLING: DURING CHANGE (CONT.)

 

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 sjoerd-jeroen moenandarmoenandar@gmail.com http://sjmoenandar.blogspot.com

o Collect and convey to measure effect of change

o Actively manage the narrative memory• Convey and curate stories

that stabilize new organization

• Create roots through storytelling

• Create a fundament for new change

USING STORYTELLING: AFTER CHANGE 

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 sjoerd-jeroen moenandarmoenandar@gmail.com http://sjmoenandar.blogspot.com

o Courage• Confront what is not

going well• Dare to be vulnerable• Dare to face emotions

o LEADERSHIP• A leader is at the

bottom, not at the top• A good leader serves

MANAGING CHANGE 

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 sjoerd-jeroen moenandarmoenandar@gmail.com http://sjmoenandar.blogspot.com

o True for the storytellero True for the audienceo True for the specific

contexto True relating to the

contento Know when not to tell

stories!

STORIES MUST BE REAL 

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 sjoerd-jeroen moenandarmoenandar@gmail.com http://sjmoenandar.blogspot.com

o Accept: different experiences, different stories

o Narrative intelligenceo Reframingo Allow negative storieso Create a positive

narrative environment

CURATING THE NARRATIVE MEMORY 

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 sjoerd-jeroen moenandarmoenandar@gmail.com http://moenandar.blogspot.com

o Counternarratives• Fight them?• Or accept them?• Address them!

o Packaged story• Entire story in one word

o Folklore stories• A story remembered, but

not experiencedo Personal experience story

TYPES OF STORIES IN NARRATIVE MEMORIES

 

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 sjoerd-jeroen moenandarmoenandar@gmail.com http://moenandar.blogspot.com

oUse stories to oFormulate a visionoCheck and probeoRemember

NARRATIVE LEADERSHIP 

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 sjoerd-jeroen moenandarmoenandar@gmail.com http://moenandar.blogspot.com

o A vision story o ‘Desert day’o Brainstorm: 6 roles, 4

stageso Avoid mission

statements

FORMULATING A VISION 

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 sjoerd-jeroen moenandarmoenandar@gmail.com http://moenandar.blogspot.com

o What’s going on?o Collecting storieso Connect management and

workforce through storieso Significant stories

• Agreement (group sessions)

• Repetition of stories• Comparing stories for

pattens (6 roles/4 stages)

CHECK AND PROBE 

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 sjoerd-jeroen moenandarmoenandar@gmail.com http://moenandar.blogspot.com

o After all is done• How to remember?• What did we learn?

o Corporate stories often ahead of organizational stories: danger of counternarratives

o Round up!

FORMULATING A VISION 

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 sjoerd-jeroen moenandarmoenandar@gmail.com http://moenandar.blogspot.com

o What did you dislike the most?

o What did you like the most?o Compare storieso Link past, present and futureo Story of the future: what’s

nexto Narrative reportso Reflect: where did you come

from?

ROUND UP 

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 sjoerd-jeroen moenandarmoenandar@gmail.com http://moenandar.blogspot.com

o Respect other people’s storieso Personal emotionso Personal truth

o Weak position of the storyteller

o Agree ono How you’ll use storieso Anonymity o Permission

NARRATIVE LEADERSHIP: USING STORIES 

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 sjoerd-jeroen moenandarmoenandar@gmail.com http://moenandar.blogspot.com

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