A workshop called Wisdom at Work is designed to help spark innovation in companies through the sharing of personal stories rather than traditional methods like data presentations or best practices. The workshop encourages leaders to tell stories from their own experiences about topics like creativity, breakthroughs, challenges, and learning moments that embed insights and knowledge to inspire others. Storytelling is highlighted as the most effective way to transmit meaningful messages and collective wisdom that can foster engagement, trust, collaboration, learning, and creativity in an organization.

1. WISDOM at WORK
The Power of Personal
Storytelling to Spark
Insight, Breakthrough,
and Lifelong Innovation
@ Idea Champions

2. IMAGINEyou only had 5 minutes to spark innovation in your company
What would you do?

3. Play Mozart in the hallways?
Cite the latest data?
Share best practices?
Launch an incentive program?
Present a case study?
Collect ideas from your workforce?

4. LAME!

5. Instead, tell a really powerful

7. Stories About What?
• Courage • Creativity • Breakthrough • Challenge
• Collaboration • Perseverance • Learning • Intuition
• Insight • Intention • Focus • Authenticity • Victories
• Ideas • Trust • Wisdom • Customer Service • Humor
• Possibility • Appreciation • Connection • Hope
• Agility • Resiliency • Courage • Creativity
• Breakthrough • Teamwork • Collaboration
• Perseverance • Communication
• Learning • Intuition • Insight
• Intention • Focus • Ideas
• Authenticity • Victories
• Wisdom • Stories • Possibility
• Appreciation • Connection • Hope

8. What’s in it for
YOU?
Engagement
Trust Building
Insight
Connection
Collaboration
Community
Learning
Inspiration
Creativity
Wisdom

9. Storytelling is the
most powerful way
to deliver a
memorable message
and the most
effective way to
transmit meaning,
tacit knowledge and
collective wisdom.

10. “There have
been great
societies that did
not use the
wheel, but there
have been no
societies that did
not tell stories.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

11. That’s what
WISDOM AT WORK
is all about

12. Is a highly engaging workshop
designed to help business people
leverage the value of storytelling in the workplace,
especially the sharing of their own
memorable moments of truth on-the-job
– stories that have, embedded within them,
great meaning, insight, and knowledge
with the power to spark insight and action in others.
WISDOM @ WORK

13. TIME TO TELL A NEW STORY
“Over the years I have
become convinced that we
learn best – and change –
from hearing stories that
strike a chord within us.
Those in leadership
positions who fail to grasp
or use the power of stories
risk failure for themselves
and their companies.”
– John Kotter
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