Team Leadership Using Storytelling to Engage Influence and

Team Leadership Using Storytelling to Engage, Influence, and Motivate

Overview Storytelling is an invaluable gift that can engage, motivate, and influence at a whole new level. It is quick, powerful, free, natural, refreshing, energizing, collaborative, persuasive, holistic, entertaining, moving, memorable and authentic. Storytelling can be one of life's most powerful and envied skills. In this activity, you will: Practice the skill of storytelling • Experience the power of a good story in engaging, influencing, and motivating your audience • © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Suggested Topics • • • The time when someone in your team had your back during a crisis A personal/professional situation that taught you a lesson A situation that changed your life A time when you were in trouble and how you came out of it The most memorable time of your career/personal life Feel Free to Select Your Own Topic © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Group Discussion • How can storytelling engage, influence, and motivate – think about your customers, your peers, your stakeholders? • What impressions have the stories you just heard left in your mind? • Recall a story that you have heard about Cisco. How has that personally impacted you? • How can you use the art of storytelling to achieve results? © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential