913: Upping your Influence with the Five Principles of Captivating Stories with Karen Eber
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Karen Eber shares neuroscience insights to help you maximize attention and impact in your communications.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why storytelling dramatically increases your influence.
2) The five factory settings of the brain.
3) The key to creating memorable stories.
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— ABOUT KAREN —
Karen Eber is an author, leadership consultant, and keynote speaker. She has a TED Talk on storytelling and recently published, The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories That Inform, Influence, and Inspire, with HarperCollins.
As the CEO and Chief Storyteller of Eber Leadership Group, Karen helps Fortune 500 companies build leaders, teams, and culture, one story at a time. She’s a former Head of Culture, Learning, and Leadership Development at GE and Deloitte.
• Book: The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories That Inform, Influence, and Inspire
• TED Talk: How your brain responds to stories -- and why they're crucial for leaders | TED
• Website: KarenEber.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter) by Steve Krug
• Book: The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin
• Person: Uri Hasson
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete Makaitas. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 913 with Karen Eber. |
| 0:23.0 | Karen shares how you can be way more influential and memorable in your communications |
| 0:29.0 | by knowing precisely how our brains function and utilizing storytelling to effectively jive with that. |
| 0:37.0 | So folks are hearing you, they're remembering you, they're digging you, and they may very well be more likely to say yes to that which you're seeking. |
| 0:44.0 | So you'll learn one, why storytelling dramatically increases your influence. |
| 0:48.0 | Two, the five factory settings of the brain. |
| 0:50.0 | And three, the key to creating memorable stories. |
| 0:53.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we referenced here, please drop on by. |
| 0:58.0 | Awesome at your job.com slash EP 913. |
| 1:01.0 | Now here's a little bit about Karen. |
| 1:03.0 | Karen Eber is an author, leadership consultant and keynote speaker. |
| 1:06.0 | She has a TED talk on storytelling and recently published The Perfect Story. |
| 1:09.0 | How to tell stories that inform, influence, and inspire with Harper Collins. |
| 1:13.0 | As a CEO and chief storyteller of Eber Leadership Group, Karen helps 4-500 companies build leaders, teams, and culture one story at a time. |
| 1:20.0 | She's a former head of culture, learning, and leadership development at GE and Deloitte. |
| 1:24.0 | Now here's Karen. |
| 1:26.0 | Karen, welcome to How to Be Awesome at Your Job. |
| 1:29.0 | Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. |
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