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Our best leadership attributes are revealed in the stories we tell
Have you ever wondered what the stories are that people tell about you when you leave the room? If you haven’t, you should. One of the most underrated leadership skills is storytelling. If you’re building a brand - what people say about you when you’re not in the room - storytelling is the best way to be memorable. Best selling author Gabrielle Dolan shows us how to share the stories that capture the essence of you as a leader, or team, or organisation. ‘Ral” Dolan is a bestselling author and sought after speaker on the power of stories for two good reasons: she’s funny and her stories rock! (as you hope they would!) We dive into the core bits from her latest book, including mistakes to avoid, the 5 key stories every brand needs, and critical influence tools.
Why you should listen: leadership skills for greater influence
Learn the key leadership influence tools: story telling, facts and figures, listening, and empathy
Why as storytellers we need to ‘heal before you reveal’ - a necessary step to be vulnerable and strong, essential leadership qualities
Discover the five types of stories to develop for your brand: creation stories, culture stories, customer stories, community stories, and challenge stories
We explore how leadership empathy emerges through sharing stories
What NOT to do for your founding story (timelines are not a story)
The Barbie origin story that will likely change your buying behaviour
Why questioning the stories you tell yourself are critically important for leadership influence
The stories that are the hardest to confront: excuses masked as reasons for why we won’t step up
A simple process to figure out what people are saying about you and your brand
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About Gabrielle Dolan:
Author Gabrielle Dolan on storytelling for leadership effectiveness
Gabrielle Dolan is a highly sought-after international keynote speaker and educator on real communication and business storytelling. Her clients include the Obama Foundation, Telstra, EY, Accenture VISA, Australia Post, National Australia Bank, Amazon and Vodafone just to name drop a few.
Gabrielle is the best selling author of six books including Real Communication: How to be you and lead true, a finalist in the Australian Business Leadership Book Awards 2019. Her other titles consist of Magnetic Stories: Connect with customers and engage employees with brand storytelling (2021), Stories for Work: The Essential Guide to Business Storytelling (2017), Storytelling for Job Interviews (2016), Ignite: Real Leadership, Real Talk, Real Results (2015) which reached the top five on Australia’s bestselling business books and Hooked: How Leaders Connect, Engage and Inspire with Storytelling (2013).
Bringing humanity to the way business people communicate isn’t just a career, it’s a calling. Her dedication to the industry was recognised when Gabrielle was awarded the 2020 Communicator of the Year by the International Association of Business Communicators Asia Pacific region.
Mentions:
Episode 28 (not 30) First interview with Gabrielle Dolan
“We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.”― Stephen M.R. Covey, The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
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Related Episodes:
30 - How to build your influence
43 - Managing up: dealing with blocks to your Success
92 Canberra based leadership expert Zoe Routh on the importance of language
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About your podcast host, leadership expert Zoë Routh:
Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.
Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.
Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.