Story-ish Conversations
What is the Story-ish Conversations story tactic?
Find the insights buried beneath everyday conversations with your colleagues, customers or users.
You don't need a captive audience or PowerPoint slides to tell a story. Make stories part of your daily conversation. Next time you feel a discussion or meeting is going nowhere, try to make it more story-ish by teasing out new information about people and change. What happens when you are the most story-ish person in the room?
Try this tactic after a session developing your Audience Profile.
How to use the Story-ish Conversations story tactic
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Find the vivid moments you need to create a visual story:
That's an interesting idea, what might it look like in action?
Is there an example of how this has worked in the past?
Go deeper, with Movie Time
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If the conversation is still vague and abstract, get right down into the who, what, where and when:
Where were you when this happened? Who else was there?
What happened next? And then?
Go deeper with Story Listening
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Look for the emotion within the story:
What's the strongest feeling you remember from that time?
How did you feel in the beginning and by the end?
Go deeper with Emotional Dashboard
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Find the inevitable conflicts that make a good story tick:
Who did you need to win over (or work around)?
How did you resolve this conflict?
Go deeper with Three Great Conflicts
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Finally, all stories are about change and new information:
What happened that forced you to change?
When did you realise you'd found something new?
Go deeper with Five Ts
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Story-ish Conversations is one of 54 storytelling recipe cards inside the Storyteller Tactics card deck.
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