Raise your hand if you’re tired of cooking the same old recipes. Or tired of cooking at all.
I recently saw my friend’s picture of homemade falafel on Instagram. The comments said she was crushing the pandemic cooking game.
Month six of the pandemic, I did not feel like we were crushing pandemic cooking. Sure, I was grateful to have food in the fridge and be able to cook at all, but the menu in our house was starting to feel seasonally predictable.
Enter falafel.
New flavors, new textures, new colors on the plate.
This one recipe brought new energy to our kitchen and new excitement to our dinner table ( bonus: our 6-year-old ate it).
It took me back to a training I did for a team of data scientists. They wanted to know how to stand out in a lineup of back to back conference speakers.
My answer was storytelling.
We did an exercise I call the storytelling grab bag, one of my favorite activities to get people thinking creatively about how to illustrate their point.
They loved it. They laughed. They loosened up.
But they weren’t sure it was relevant for an academic setting.
And that’s where they’re wrong.
If you want to stand out in a lineup of speakers, if you want to be the shiny fish in a sea of academics, if you want to be the most compelling presenter at your company, stories are key.
Stories are the falafel amidst the pasta and grilled chicken.
They bring color and context to your work, they bring relevance to your research and they bring life to your ideas.
If you want to improve your storytelling, stand out in meetings, and wow your clients, join me tomorrow October 7th.
I'm doing a training for the Creatives Roundtable and I'll be sharing tools to be clear, concise and compelling.
I help quiet leaders and organizations communicate their story and invite audiences into their world so they can lead their teams, lead their organizations and make change in the world.
Together we’ll transform how you communicate, at work, at home, in life.
