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

IDEA CHAMPIONS845.679.1066mitch@ideachampions.com