1st Edition

The Organizational Storytelling Workbook How to Harness this Powerful Communication and Management Tool

By David Collins Copyright 2020
210 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This workbook is an interactive guide for leaders and managers to help you tell compelling stories at work. The Organizational Storytelling Workbook offers: a critical engagement with academic debates on organizational storytelling; and a series of exercises designed to allow users to improve their capability as organizational storytellers. The text begins with a chapter... Read more

Introduction.

Section One: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk.

Section Two: Maxims for Organizational Storytelling.

Section Three: Storytelling Exercises.

Section Four: Researching the Storyworld.

Biography

David Collins is Professor in Management at University of Northumbria, New-castle and the founder and Managing Director of Gain Insight Ltd, a consulting organization offering bespoke services on HRM, organizational change/transformation and the application of narratives to organizational problems. An academic with more than 30 years’ experience, David holds advanced degrees from the universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde and Essex. This is his sixth book. Previous works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge include Organizational Change: Sociological Perspectives (1998); Management Fads and Buzzwords: Critical-Practical Perspectives (2000); Narrating the Management Guru: In Search of Tom Peters (2007); Stories for Management Success: The Power of Talk in Organizations (2018); and Management Gurus: A Research Overview (2021).