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Coaching for Leaders

593: How to Start Finding Useful Stories, with David Hutchens

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

David Hutchens: Story Dash David Hutchens helps leaders find and tell their stories. He works with leaders around the world to find, craft, and tell their most urgent stories for the purpose of creating shared meaning, preserving culture, disseminating learning, and speeding change in organizations. He has taught the Storytelling Leader program at some of the most influential organizations — and he’s written many books, including the Circle of the 9 Muses and The Leadership Story Deck. He is the co-creator with longtime friend of the show Susan Gerke of the GO Team program. He's also the author of the new book, Story Dash: Find, Develop, and Activate Your Most Valuable Business Stories…In Just a Few Hours. In this conversation, David and I discuss how to find stories that you can use in your organization. We reflect on the reality that we both hear many leaders say to us: “How do I find the right stories?” David then shares the key principles and steps that every leader can take to surface and curate the best stories. Key Points The “Us At Our Best” taxonomy is what it looks like when are are delivering with energy and excellence. A recent Southwest Airlines story is an example of this. Find the area the area of your work where you need to influence the emotional system. Trust stories about small moments. Don’t attempt to create an epic drama of huge importance. The best stories are individual incidents that send a bigger message. Formal story mining can be done alone or as team building. Institutionalizing practices like story sharing can help this happen regularly and naturally. When informally collecting stories, listen for time, place, and person as signals that a story is beginning. Resources Mentioned Download a free set of Story Deck cards or… Reach out to David directly at [email protected] for more free resources Purchase the full set of Leadership Story Deck by David Hutchens Related Episodes How to Create an Unstoppable Culture, with Ginger Hardage (episode 350) Three Stories to Tell During Uncertainty, with David Hutchens (episode 486) The Way to Earn Attention, with Raja Rajamannar (episode 521) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0

The language of leaders is storytelling and many leaders understand the power of stories,

0:06.5

but I also hear this question a lot.

0:09.4

How do I start finding the stories that I could tell?

0:13.9

In this episode, David Hutchins returns to show us exactly how to find the stories that

0:19.0

will help you lead better.

0:20.8

This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 593.

0:29.8

Greetings to you from Orange County, California.

0:36.0

This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahofiak.

0:40.8

Leaders aren't born, they're made.

0:42.9

In this weekly show, helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations.

0:49.0

One of the most important competencies for us as leaders is the ability to be able to

0:53.9

tell stories.

0:54.9

We've heard me say it on the show before that stories aren't the language of leaders.

1:00.0

Many of us have heard that storytelling is important, and yet it is something that we

1:04.7

put up a lot of mental barriers on, and one of the questions I hear often from folks is

1:10.8

how do I find stories that I can utilize in order to influence?

1:17.2

How do I find stories inside our organization with our customers, with my colleagues?

1:21.4

Today we're going to do a deep dive on how we can begin to find the stories that are

1:26.9

going to be most useful to us and useful to others.

1:29.7

I'm so glad to welcome back our resident storytelling expert, David Hutchins.

1:34.1

David helps leaders find and tell their stories.

1:36.7

He works with leaders around the world to find craft and tell their most urgent stories

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