“I am impressed with your ability to marry extensive experience with practical down-to-earth strategies. Our time together is always inspiring and powerful, well grounded in your solid understanding of how leaders think and the day-to-day challenges they face. I am pleased to see someone of your caliber in the field of organizational storytelling providing executives today with breakthrough techniques for generating real solutions to the complex situations that challenge us all.” Seth Kahan, keynote speaker, organizational consultant, Fast Company blogger, and author of How to Build Collective Intelligence in Your Organization

Customized workshops focus on helping groups communicate in order to build trust and influence others.  I work with teams who need to enroll others in their projects, strategy, or vision.  They learn which stories they need to tell, how to tell them in their own way, stick to the message, and craft key communications for peers, employees, customers, and stakeholders.

• The Power of Stories For Business Professionals: Building Storytelling Skills
  
• Wake 'Em Up! Using Stories in Marketing, Branding & Sales
• Your Influence Amplifier:  Enhancing Leadership Skills Through Stories
• What's Your Story?  Story Types, Applications, & Methods For Working With Stories

• When teams need to be aligned and focused
• When groups need to communicate their projects and win support
• When business changes and an organization needs to re-craft their story
• When executive teams need to convey a vision, strategy or change
• When trainers need to build storytelling skills
• When organizations are developing new leaders

• Any individual or team who needs to influence listeners
• Any senior executive team desiring to launch and sustain an organizational initiative
• Staff and teams who need to work & communicate better together.
  

• Connecting immediately to your customers
  
• Key stories to tell
• Listening skills
• Crafting a compelling message that gets results
  
• Conveying a message and being authentic
  
• Imagery, metaphors, and emotion
• When to tell stories and when not to
  

• Inspiring listeners
• Aligning and enrolling people in your cause
• Moving people to action
• Alleviating the stress of public speaking
• Facing an audience with confidence and control
• Leveraging their own natural speaking style
• Feelings of pride and self accomplishment
• Allowing their empathy and sense of humor to flow
• Communicating and thinking with greater clarity and purpose, emphasizing key messages

For more information about customized workshops, contact Karen today at 619-235-0052 or e-mail me at contact-us@polaris-associates.com