Overview

Leaders manage stories.

They manage the story of their products, customers, people, and operations.

Too often, however, leaders lose sight of that. They lose the story. Instead, they get sucked into the data. It doesn’t matter how good your data are if they are focused on the wrong story. Are you spending more time talking about data than the decisions and actions associated with that data? If so, you’re focused in the wrong place.

Join us as we help you recapture your story.

Managing Your Story is a two-hour workshop. It provides the leader’s role in data-driven decision-making.

Outcomes/content

In this 2-hour session, we will teach you how to:

Define your story

• Clarifying the scope and pieces of the “story” you manage.
• Identifying the full scope of what you manage. Sometimes leaders get overly focused on a piece of the story and miss the big picture. Ensuring that you are looking in the right places and at the right things.
• Determining the most important parts of the processes that you manage.

Sometimes leaders focus on the processes with the most accessible data rather than the ones that are most important.

Understand your story

• Breaking your story into simple, manageable pieces
• Identifying the criteria that you will use to make decisions.

Stay focused on the story

• Framing meetings and discussions around decisions
• Redirecting your teams from providing “data dumps” to providing succinct, data-driven stories
• Using simple structures for telling different types of business-stories