Sing Your Own Song
In today’s media saturated environment, how do you handle an unmediated moment when you're asked to talk about yourself? To share some information that cannot be found otherwise except by talking to you? No texting, no emailing, Instagram photos, curated profile, or timely post. On the spot, in real time; just you and your listener(s). You need a distinctive response at the ready. So why resort to the [...]
StoryPathing: An Internal GPS
Think of your skill in StoryPathing™ as a kind of GPS. But rather than guiding you to whatever your next may be from where you are, it guides from WHO you are. You discern with clarity and are equipped to share, with evidence, your competencies and motivations over time. Your audience meanwhile can orient itself to how your present and what's next intersect in the present moment. Gain perspective, [...]
‘Well, How Did You Get Here?’ — Not a Rhetorical Question!
I was recently listening to the Talking Heads’ song ‘Once in a Lifetime’. At one point, the lead singer David Byrne prominently asks himself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’ This is a question we all may ask ourselves rhetorically once in a while, and we may not know the answer, at least in the terms that Byrne poses it. It got me to thinking, though: there are situations [...]
The Is-ness of Business
The Is-ness of Business Your business is business, and it's also your life—your 'life-li-hood'. My business is ‘is-ness’; more specifically, the ‘I’ in ‘is-ness’. It represents that unique personal dimension as part of what you do. The 'I' in business gets overlooked in all the ‘busy-ness’ involved in a business. Despite the pervasive use of technology, business still boils down to relationships between people. So how does the ‘I’ [...]
