Tony McNiff (Managing Director, First Cymru Buses Ltd, Wales) attended an event with us at First Group in 2006 – Jim’s Story. His comments here were made at a conference last week. “The event run by Forum Interactive – Jim’s Story – was the first of its kind that I’d been to and I found… Read more »
Effective interagency working is founded on a clear, joint vision. The vision needs to connect with everyone’s values as professionals and to show the benefit of collaborative working. It also needs to be communicated in a way that inspires professionals to look beyond immediate challenges towards collaboration. “Out of the Box” is a 25 minute play that was written for… Read more »
How do you tell a good story?
Stories have the power to inspire action. They are effective in the context of organisational change because they help us to understand complexity, they can change or enhance perceptions, they are easy to remember, they are non-adversarial and non-hierarchical. But perhaps most importantly, stories engage our emotions: they make us think and they make us… Read more »
At work, we tell one another stories to build and sustain the informal networks we need to do our jobs properly and to feel part of a community. In the third episode of Foul Whisperings, the relationship between Alison and MacBeth begins to unravel and he turns to the support of his loyal wife.