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Storytelling in business is a vital business tool. Why?

Storytelling creates chemistry between people. There’s no business connection that couldn't be enhanced with story.

Connecting People With Story

Storytelling Workshops, Training & Consultancy for Leadership, Culture, Strategy, Branding, Selling, Innovation

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About Us

Storytelling is the best way to create chemistry with people.

Telling stories gives you more airtime with customers, colleagues and leaders.  That’s because a great anecdote hooks people, takes them on an emotional journey and conveys a memorable message.

Stories that resonate with people inspire them to take action.

You can incorporate storytelling into your business in many ways.

Listening is just as important as telling. People show you their loves, hates and desires through their narratives.  You can understand their motives and find a sweet spot that meets your business needs and theirs.

If you want to talk about business storytelling contact us.

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“The stories that we tell ourselves and others are the stories that we live by.”

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About You

Connecting with people is vital to resolving most business problems.

Five clues that engaging people better could be the missing link:

  • Customers have no emotional connection to your brand or company.
  • Your strategy frays as it’s communicated through the business.
  • Your sales people tell different stories and customers are confused.
  • Your teamwork is often more draining than it is enriching.
  • You crave innovation but struggle to generate compelling ideas.

Storytelling could be the answer to theses kinds of communication problems in your business.

If you want to connect better, contact us.

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Our Story

Connection gaps between people are at the root of every business problem.

We wondered how to create better business chemistry and explored psychology, NLP and storytelling.

We discovered three secrets;

Firstly, great communication goes beyond the intellect – it resonates with the heart and soul.

Secondly, the best way to create rich connections is by telling and listening to stories.

Thirdly, storytelling is not new – it’s as old as time it self.

Better business connections call for powerful narrative communications.

If you want to know more, contact us.

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Storytelling Team

We’re the co-founders of The Story Mill. Here are our nutshell stories.

Claire Taylor

Claire Taylor

Chief Storyteller

Mine is a story of serendipity. As corporate Brand/Marketing Director turned consultant I’d become restless. A chance conversation in 2011 got me writing a blog of stories. It re-kindled a passion I’d had since childhood. A year later I trained as a storytelling performer. I was hooked!

The recession created a trust gap in business. The corporate world beckoned to me as a place where storytelling could create better connections between people. It was an opportunity to share what I’d discovered, enrich the working lives of others and help to rebuild trust in business.

The blog became a book called The Tao of Storytelling that was published in 2013. And we launched The Story Mill to bring storytelling into business. That’s where the story begins….

David Taylor

David Taylor

Chief Story Broadcaster

It’s a story of opposites attract. I’m the creative guy who loves technology. As a teenager I adopted the school computer during the holidays. Nerdy maybe – but it was the early ’80’s and computers were like science-fiction. By the early naughties I was leading a busy corporate IT function. But I’d left behind my passion for art & design. The digital age spelled an opportunity. The synergy of design and technology led me to creating a digital agency.

The world changed after the recession with a call for more authenticity from businesses hence the story revival. The digital revolution has created an opportunity to broadcast stories in blogs, videos, podcasts, on website and engage on social media.

That propelled me to co-found The Story Mill to bring the power of storytelling into businesses.
 

Claire Taylor

Claire Taylor

Chief Storyteller

Mine is a story of serendipity. As corporate Brand/Marketing Director turned consultant I’d become restless. A chance conversation in 2011 got me writing a blog of stories. It re-kindled a passion I’d had since childhood. A year later I trained as a storytelling performer. I was hooked!

The recession created a trust gap in business. The corporate world beckoned to me as a place where storytelling could create better connections between people. It was an opportunity to share what I’d discovered, enrich the working lives of others and help to rebuild trust in business.

The blog became a book called The Tao of Storytelling that was published in 2013. And we launched The Story Mill to bring storytelling into business. That’s where the story begins….

David Taylor

David Taylor

Chief Story Broadcaster

It’s a story of opposites attract. I’m the creative guy who loves technology. As a teenager I adopted the school computer during the holidays. Nerdy maybe – but it was the early ’80’s and computers were like science-fiction. By the early naughties I was leading a busy corporate IT function. But I’d left behind my passion for art & design. The digital age spelled an opportunity. The synergy of design and technology led me to creating a digital agency.

The world changed after the recession with a call for more authenticity from businesses hence the story revival. The digital revolution has created an opportunity to broadcast stories in blogs, videos, podcasts, on website and engage on social media.

That propelled me to co-found The Story Mill to bring the power of storytelling into businesses.
 

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Services

We build chemistry by connecting people with story. And then, quantum leaps in the speed, scale and size of your results become possible.

And here’s how :-

Leadership Stories

“Storytelling is the secret to charisma”
 
Would you like to create better audience chemistry, discover, craft and tell stories that connect with people?

Call us on01295 724568

or

Lets Talk Story 
we’d love to help you.

Brand Strategy & Stories

“Every brand deserves a
lapel-grabbing narrative”
 
Would you like your brand strategy and communications to have greater pulling power?

Call us on01295 724568

or

Lets Talk Story 
we’d love to help you.

Big Data Stories

“People can get lost in data but find themselves in stories.”
 
Would you like to discover and tell the stories that are hidden within your data?

Call us on01295 724568

or

Lets Talk Story 
we’d love to help you.

Science Stories

“Science only matters when it’s told as a meaningful story.”
 
Would you like to be able to present your scientific knowledge like a TED Talker?

Call us on01295 724568

or

Lets Talk Story 
we’d love to help you.

Culture Stories

“Everyone makes-up their own story about the same event”
 
Would you like to know which narratives are dominant within your organisation and how to create better organisational chemistry?

Call us on01295 724568

or

Lets Talk Story 
we’d love to help you.

Innovation Stories

“Creative genius means being able to see beyond today’s narrative”
 
Would you like to know how to create the kind of team chemistry that harnesses the genius within your organisation?

Call us on01295 724568

or

Lets Talk Story 
we’d love to help you.

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The Four Key Stages of Story

We have four steps to great story chemistry. How we do these steps depends on the storytelling context.

Story Discovery

We mine for the right stories. With our investigative spectacles on, we work with you to find the insights that lead us to the story and its message.

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Story Crafting

We mould stories by working with you to sculpt your narrative and discern what to take away and what to leave. And finally show you how to polish the story until it shines.

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we’d love to help you.

Story Producing

We make stories come alive by helping you to; tell personal, brand or other stories on pod-cast or video, illustrate your stories or write story blogs and so on. We can produce your stories in whatever ways you like.

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we’d love to help you.

Story Broadcasting

We magnify your stories by helping you to; tell a moving personal story live or communicate organisational culture stories or share brand stories via salesforce, social media.

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we’d love to help you.

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Workshops

We run engaging workshops shaped for your business. Here are some of our favourite themes. Or we can create a completely bespoke workshop designed just for you.

Making Your Brand More Human

The standard workshop is 1 day you’ll explore:

  • The nature of a magnetic brand story
  • Identifying your brand story conflict
  • Shaping your brand story characters
  • Getting clear on your brand’s mission and role in the story
  • Defining how your brand plays its role & fulfills its mission
  • Crafting your brand’s narrative
  • Optimal ways to produce and broadcast your brand story

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Discover and Tell Personal Stories in Business

The standard workshop is 1 day you’ll explore:

  • Mining for great stories from your life
  • Selecting the right story for the right audience
  • Discovering the wisdom from your story
  • Crafting your story to captivate your audience
  • Telling your story like TED Talker

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Innovate with Story

The standard workshop is 1 day you’ll explore:

  • How innovation stories come to be
  • Creating a more innovative team culture
  • Allowing innovation to emerge
  • Making profitable innovation decisions
  • De-risking your innovation
  • Optimising your innovation opportunity
  • Telling your innovation story

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Connect Your Team with Story

The standard workshop is 1 day you’ll explore:

  • Defining your team’s current story
  • Discovering your team’s dominant narratives
  • Identifying the wisdom behind your team’s stories
  • Bringing new wisdom into your team
  • Creating a synergistic team story
  • Bringing the new story to life within your team
  • Building on the new more empowering team story

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Elon Musk is a visionary entrepreneur. While Musk isn’t the most polished speaker in the world – he tells powerful strategic stories with passion and authenticity.

Listening to Musk talking about Tesla Motors or Powerwall, Tesla home battery, we’re grabbed by the stories he tells. He begins by identifying the problem as he sees it. He tells us what he believes will happen if the status quo is maintained. We’re floundering in the darkness of the bleak future.

But then, Musk shows us the light at the end of the tunnel.

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Telling stories is great, in the right place and at the right time. But I’m seeing a worrying trend of people being encouraged to divulge personal information through stories, that makes them and people around them feel uncomfortable in business.

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