A couple of recent articles by career practitioners have focused on storytelling. My colleague Sharon Graham continues her excellent series on career storytelling with Advancing your career through effective storytelling (see others in the series here). Sharon focuses on developing your personal career branding story, a “central story [that is] … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2011
#JobActionDay11: A Start-Up Story of Triumphing Over Job Loss
Today (11-07-11) is Job Action Day 2011, the fourth annual such event. This year’s theme is: “Skill Up, Start Up, Speak Up.” The “Start Up” aspect of the theme refers not only to tackling unemployment during the recession by starting a small business, but also developing a whole new mindset … Continue reading
Noteworthy Offerings from Story Practitioners
These goodies from practitioners have caught my eye recently: Scroll down to see more about these story-related books. In Stories Matter: How to Power Up Your Activism, Thaler Pekar shares personal stories from her own history to illustrate the power of stories in activism. She noted to me that she … Continue reading
More Lifewriting Goodies and Tonight’s Teleclass
I’m continuing to receive lots of communications from Denis Ledoux of Soleil Lifestory, marking National Lifewriting Month. Tonight at 7 Eastern is his first of three teleclasses for memoir writers, “Write the First Draft of Your Memoir: Getting Started and Keeping Going.” To register for the free class, call 207-353-5454 … Continue reading
Celebrating a New Kind of Storied Career
When I first read this article about funeral celebrants, I didn’t get what the big deal was. It talked about “a growing trend at funerals: celebrants, whose aim is to make funerals more personal and meaningful while officiating the services.” It seemed to me that part of funeral officiants’ role … Continue reading
Over 70? Columnist Wants Your Story
New York Times columnist David Brooks isn’t framing his request as “stories,” but rather as essays providing “a brief report on your life so far, an evaluation of what you did well, of what you did not so well and what you learned along the way.” Nonetheless, Brooks is asking … Continue reading
Appreciative Inquiry for Job Search
Last week, I attended a workshop on Appreciative Inquiry, which I thought would be a little more focused than it was on using AI in the job search. Appreciative Inquiry is not specifically a storytelling tool (and actually not a tool at all, but “a way of being and seeing,” … Continue reading
November is Lifewriting Month
So Denis Ledoux reminds me in a newsletter (The Lifewriter’s Digest) from his Soleil Lifestory Network. I’m not sure how I got on the mailing list for this newsletter, but I’m glad I am because it is absolutely packed with content: Memoir Prompts for November 1-5 8 Tips…to Get You … Continue reading
This Storied Career Assessment Lets Someone Else Tell Your Story
This month’s O Magazine offers a 4-Step Guide to Discovering Who You’re Meant to Be in which Step 2 comes from well-known lifestyle/career coach and author Barbara Sher [UPDATE: Sher passed away in 2020]. She calls this exercise “a new twist on something [she] call[s] the Self-Correcting Life Scenario.” In … Continue reading
No Story No Fans Adds Richly to Story-in-Business Conversation
When Raf Stevens first challenged me to present more examples of good storytelling two years ago this month, I scarcely imagined I would later get involved in his effort to produce an important new ebook in the applied-storytelling space. I had criticized the lack of storytelling quality among the winners … Continue reading