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Thank you for reading and commenting, Omar. And I am delighted that you found this article useful. Yup, too many organizations ignore the seemingly small and yet highly resonant stories surrounding them, while searching for that seemingly perfect, Hollywood-ish story.
Leading Narrative Change
Activists, philanthropists, and social entrepreneurs increasingly are focused on influencing people and shaping opinions, behaviors, and policy through narrative. There's also an increased focus on culture change through narrative. Although the definition of the word can be nuanced, narrative g...
Glenda, thank you so much!
Everyone Wants to Be a Hero
(Thaler Pekar, a consultant specializing in persuasive communication, helps smart leaders and their organizations find, develop, and share the stories and organizational narratives that rally critical support. You can find other posts by Thaler here, here, and here.) Much of my work is focused...
Thank you, Howard!
Values as Visuals
(Thaler Pekar, a consultant specializing in persuasive communication, helps smart leaders and their organizations find, develop, and share the stories and organizational narratives that rally critical support. You can find other posts by Thaler here, here, and here.) Last year, I participated ...
Cynthia, thank you so much for commenting and sharing your experience and insight. I especially appreciate your definition of and advice to use metaphorical pictures. The Picture Your Legacy iphone app is now available at no cost, if you want to look at the photos that way. Picture Your Legacy is tailored to 21/64's promotion of multi-generational philanthropy: they contain a great number of metaphorical images, and also images specific to potential giving areas, such as education, advocacy, health care, and Jewish issues.
Thank you again for commenting, Cynthia. I always welcome learning from you.
Values as Visuals
(Thaler Pekar, a consultant specializing in persuasive communication, helps smart leaders and their organizations find, develop, and share the stories and organizational narratives that rally critical support. You can find other posts by Thaler here, here, and here.) Last year, I participated ...
Thank you for commenting, and nice to know of a fundraising consultancy that is using a similar tool with success.
Values as Visuals
(Thaler Pekar, a consultant specializing in persuasive communication, helps smart leaders and their organizations find, develop, and share the stories and organizational narratives that rally critical support. You can find other posts by Thaler here, here, and here.) Last year, I participated ...
Nancy, thank you for your comments, and the link to Visuals Speak.
Values as Visuals
(Thaler Pekar, a consultant specializing in persuasive communication, helps smart leaders and their organizations find, develop, and share the stories and organizational narratives that rally critical support. You can find other posts by Thaler here, here, and here.) Last year, I participated ...
Thank you, Limor!
Values as Visuals
(Thaler Pekar, a consultant specializing in persuasive communication, helps smart leaders and their organizations find, develop, and share the stories and organizational narratives that rally critical support. You can find other posts by Thaler here, here, and here.) Last year, I participated ...
Drew, while I cannot comment on the value the viewer may find in the finale of Lost, I can say that, most definitely, many narratives about our lives and the world do not have simple resolutions.
The brilliant narrative expert David Boje commented on my earlier post, What, Why and How Story Matters, about story resolution or the lack thereof. David says, "I like to look at storytelling as an intra-play of narratives (past), living story webs (present) and antenarratives about the future field of possibilities.
"So sometime a living story web, is full of relationship, lots of emergence, and stuff happening we don't have an ending for, and maybe no beginning sorted out."
You can read David's full commentary here: http://pndblog.typepad.com/pndblog/2010/03/what-why-and-how-story-matters.html?
My goal, Drew, is to assist smart leaders and their organizations in finding and sharing their stories. So, although the larger, what I call meta-narrative may not yet have a clear beginning or a tidy resolution, the communication of the narrative will have a clear construction, with a beginning, middle and an end. That is the story that can be shared.
Program Evaluation and Narrative
(Consultant Thaler Pekar helps smart leaders and their organizations find, develop, and share the stories and organizational narratives that can rally critical support. Related posts in this series can be found here, here, and here.) I had an inspiring meeting last week with a colleague who sp...
Pamela, I will be writing about this in upcoming months, and I will be presenting on it latter this Spring and Summer. In the meantime, my web site offers a page on How Story Helps, which offers different points during a project in which qualitative, narrative evaluation can occur.
You may be interested in these terrific forms from the Urban Institute: http://www.urban.org/center/cnp/Projects/outcomeindicators.cfm
Let me know if this is helpful - and if you find your good forms!
Thank you for commenting, Pamela.
What, Why, and How Story Matters
(Consultant Thaler Pekar helps smart leaders and their organizations find, develop, and share the stories and organizational narratives that can rally critical support. Her previous posts in this series can be found here, here, here, and here.) I fear the term "story" is being used so broadly ...
Thank you, Aspen. It means a great deal to me that my work can support your important organization.
Stories Are a Vital Source of Knowledge
(Thaler Pekar, a consultant specializing in persuasive message development, helps smart leaders and their organizations find, develop, and share the stories and organizational narratives that rally critical support. This is her first post for PhilanTopic.) Imagine asking every one of your staf...
Anne, thank you so much for your comment. I have not yet seen a Playback Theater performance, but I am on the mailing list for NYC and hope to attend one, soon (I am also studying Improv). Thank you so much for introducing me to your wonderful site (and work). I am especially impressed by the quality, structure, and content of the stories you are sharing and the various ways in which they are made accessible.
Stories Are a Vital Source of Knowledge
(Thaler Pekar, a consultant specializing in persuasive message development, helps smart leaders and their organizations find, develop, and share the stories and organizational narratives that rally critical support. This is her first post for PhilanTopic.) Imagine asking every one of your staf...
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