communications
Five Simple Employee Engagement Tips You Can Implement Tomorrow
This article outlines five simple and free steps we can take to improve our engagement at work.
Julienne Ryan
September 21, 2022
listening skills
communications
Reenergize Your Communications By Taking A Pause
When we start to get “verklempt” (very emotional in Queens dialect and Yiddish), my guidance to us is simple: engage in “The power of doing just one thing to reenergize and connect.” The exercise is as simple as it sounds: Pause, regroup, find a positive action, and reach out.
Julienne Ryan
August 2, 2022
Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciate Inquiry – The Art of Acknowledging and Echoing What You Heard
In a nutshell, Appreciative inquiry is the process of hearing and acknowledging another person and the facts and emotions they expressed. However theory is great but here’s a musical prompt to help us appreciate the this theory. Listen as The Louisville Leopard Percussionists model this practice into action as they play Jon Baptiste’s “I need You” at their recent concert.
Julienne Ryan
June 16, 2022
business storytelling
Story Share Your Way to a Fresh Perspective and Maybe a New View.
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to get a fresh perspective. I know this far too well because I’m short. I’ve experienced a lifetime of shortness, and as a result, I’ve spent considerable amounts of time trying to see what others could view so easily. That’s one of the reasons I enjoy teaching the art of story sharing because it allows the participants to gain a fresh perspective about themselves and others.
Julienne Ryan
June 2, 2022
business storytelling
How do you create dialogue in a polarized environment?
How do you create dialogue in a polarized environment? Seems like it’s impossible to have a conversation that at some point will not devolve into a series of opinions that culminate in someone (or more people) leaving in a huff. What are your strategies for listening in such a world?
Consider Socratic Dialogue and follow Sira Abenoza’s work with the Institute for Socratic Dialogue and as a professor at Esade law and business schools in Spain.
Julienne Ryan
May 4, 2022
business storytelling
The Art of Dialogue with Sira Abenoza
Our latest STORYTALKS by Narativ is up with Sira Abenoza the founder of the Socratic Dialogue Institute. She talks with Jerome Deroy and Julienne B.
Julienne Ryan
April 13, 2022
business storytelling
Having a Communication Challenge? Sometimes we just need to contact a trained professional.
When we encounter communication challenges, sometimes we just have to woman or man up and ask a trained professional for help.
Websites, apps, and technology enable us to function as self-sufficient beings. Being an independent professional forces you to be your own IT support. This role requires us to read many vender-generated pdfs, endure bot-driven chats, and scroll through countless Q & A’s, all in Quixote-like searches for a solution. One that you often do not find.
Julienne Ryan
March 24, 2022
being authentic
Julienne Ryan
March 7, 2022
business storytelling
What Escape Rooms Can Teach Us About Conducting Effective Meetings
Escape rooms can teach us about conducting effective meetings as we begin to conduct more in person meetings.
Julienne Ryan
February 23, 2022
Christopher Walken
“Get Schmeary” – What we can learn about the art of conversation from Christopher Walken
In this post humorist Julienne B. Ryan explains what she learned about the art of conversation from a David Marchese’s interview with Christopher Walken
Julienne Ryan
February 16, 2022