Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Initiatenarratives

The leadership narratives and good stories are interesting enough to engage others, empathetic enough to touch the hearts, and logical enough to connect the minds.

Organizations are living systems that keep evolving. The future state is very fluid, it can be defined in the present moment but will change while trying to reach it. Narratives are a set of possible stories about how you will move forward from this moment, reimagine the future, make sure that you break it down into looking at the ideal future first, followed by the real future and then finally the practical one. 

What type of narrative conflict must you confront? The more complex the story is, the more story points are allocated to touch the mind, motivating people to reach the strategic goals step-wisely.

Leadership narrative: Due to fierce competitions and unprecedented uncertainty, business leaders need to demonstrate strong cognition, communication, and influencing competency, being able to represent themselves, inspire, persuade and motivate others to achieve the art of possible. Good leaders don't lose sight of long-term perspective or “big picture” vision even though they spend certain time, efforts, and resources on achieving short-term quick wins.

As modern-day storytellers, top business leaders can make an influence when they share visions via narrative -story-telling, making sure their thoughts can be interpreted by multiple entities and acted in the desired way. Their stories need to be concise enough to convey the key messages and creative enough to connect the heterogeneous audience. Insightful leaders encourage strategic dialogs, initiate empathetic conversations to create a strong collaboration chain with no weak links; give teams a sense of ownership, invite them to challenge strategy, welcome open debates, and great ideas to improve business changes

Innovation narrative: Nothing truly great can happen without innovation. Innovation is a journey with many ups and downs. Make sure that your company has a steady flow of fresh ideas floating across the geographical location and you have a methodological collaboration platform that allows you to manage them in a structural way. Business leaders need to envision clearly, ponder what is the innovation "story-arc" for your organization? Which roles do you play? What type of narrative conflict do you confront? Where are you? Where are you going? How do you get there? Etc.

Contemporary leaders as modern-day storytellers have the opportunity to advance agendas, concepts, and ideas. People are inspired by great innovators or things such as role models, compelling stories. There are emotions involved in compelling story-telling. If the positive and hopeful stories are not told, the negative emotions cause problems inevitably. Innovation leaders keep clarifying: Who are we, in such an innovation story? What is the "story-arc" for our organization? What is our current adventure? What’s our destination? Which path should we take to overcome obstacles? ? Everyone understands it, knows what it takes to get there, knows what endangers the journey, keeps people fully engaged in leading innovation success.

Business transformation narratives:
Business transformation is challenging because oftentimes the large-scale change needs to update the underlying structure, rooted belief, or even the organizational culture. Storytelling is a powerful tool to share business transformation agendas, motivating people to make radical changes. Such business transformation narratives should embrace creativity, context, cascade, tailor varying business audiences, in order to close cognitive gaps and achieve digital synchronization.

The business transformation narratives should be vivid enough to inspire more imagination and persuasive enough to encourage comprehensive planning and step-by-step actions. Tell the full story vividly about digital transformation, with shapes and colors, not just part of the plot. People will use it to shape the way they think, understand, and collaborate to unlock collective performance. When those mental models are released through narrative, the feedback can shape something we can all wrap ourselves around. Holds one another accountable. Collectively, the business steps into the future of business and creates an unimaginable digital landscape and makes transformative changes.

Storytelling is nothing new, it's the integration of the art with the science. It's critical to collect quality information, feedback, and listen to people’s concerns. The leadership narratives and good stories are interesting enough to engage others, empathetic enough to touch the hearts, and logical enough to connect the minds. The innovation and business transformation narratives are vivid enough to reimagine the future and persuasive enough to engage people in driving changes collaboratively.

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