Stories Matter! - Helping Leaders Transform Lives

“Knowing your 'why'​ is the secret to success.” - Brian Fenerty, Head of Talent Acquisition at Logitec Does your organization have a mission? Not a mission statement, but a mission. If not, it would behoove you to discern and articulate why your organization exists.  Spend some time reflecting on what your company does, who they do it for and how those people benefit from your services/products. D...

“Plans are worthless. Planning is invaluable.” - Winston Churchill We are responsible for our responses. The Gallop people have uncovered that employees what four things from their leaders: Hope Stability Trust Compassion Take a look at your organization. Ask yourself where your leadership provides these things employees crave. Assess your organization on how well these needs are being met. Then d...

Communicating with Respect with Melissa Johnston Price "Alone we can do little ; together we can do so much." --Helen Keller  Using the Meyers-Briggs communication preference tools allowed the company to go from 128 performances a year to 1,487 annually in 3 years. Effective communication is a key leadership capacity. Understanding how the person you’re attempting to communicate with takes in info...

Adventures in the Theatre with Gayle Turner & Melissa Johnston Price Theater teaches essential soft skills that foster empathy and effective interactions with others, aiding in human development regardless of the career path one chooses to pursue. Theater is the most comprehensive art form, enveloping all other forms of art, including music, dance, fine art, film and visual art.  Aligning dive...

"We, we so desperately wanted our own theatre company. We were making our living as theater people. We had our fair share of struggles along the way." "The pain and the angst and the stress is no longer there. It's just a great story to tell." "They had to climb under it and use a paper clip to reconnect the clutch." "One of my birthdays, the actors rode the van without water or oil and froze the...

Training for the Real World with Gayle Turner & Melissa Johnston Price Gayle Turner is President of The Storytellers Channel, Inc. https://storytellerschannel.com/ For close to five decades he has used the power of story to initiate and sustain change while growing leaders and building productive corporate and community cultures. Check out his LinkedIn profile to learn the rest of the story. h...

Understanding intangibles is one of THE most important skills for 21st Century management. - Robert McGarvey Neo-Liberalism has run its course. Normative Theory is rooted in the dynamics of social dynamism. “Greed is Good” has run its course and Ayn Rand’s false dichotomy of Extreme Individualism on one side and Collective Socialism on the other as the only choices for contemporary society has bee...

“The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.” — Arianna Huffington Some organizations are built on the premise of human capital as interchangeable cogs. For others, this is a recipe for disaster. Understand the true value of your human capital and the costs of high turnover.  Dig deep into your costs of lost productivity during...

Trust is the cement that bonds all relationships. -Stephen Covey When there is distrust between employees and management it causes friction and slows flow. Which in turn makes doing business more expensive.  The quality of the relationships between a company and its employees, customers, suppliers, the communities where they operate and their investors are treated as intangible.  But, you need to...

Spending money on R&D is only an expense when talking to the taxman. Accounting as a management tool is best served when investments in the intangibles, but nonetheless real assets, are measured and monitored so they may represent an accurate picture of an enterprises true situation thereby supporting sound decision making.  Restating an organization’s books for different purposes is a sound m...

I’m starting with the man in the mirror. - Michael Jackson Change begins with us. It’s not others, but we who must model the desired behavior. Coach John Wooden said, “Look for ways to show you care.”  U.S. Military officers are taught the 5Cs: Courage, Commitment, Competence, Candor, and Caring. An old adage reminds us that people don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care. C...

Resilience - Overcoming Setbacks “Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” ― Nelson Mandela  Gayle Turner shares stories of his parents’ commitment to one another and his father’s response to unexpected obstacles.  Obstacles are but inconveniences when approached with clarity of mission and vision. Spend some time reflecting on why you do what y...

Come of Stay at Home - Commitment Do… or do not. There is no try. – Yoda  Many people cruise through their workday. Complying to the demands of the letter of the job description, as opposed to committing to the mission and goals of the organization in pursuit of achieving leadership’s vision.  Stories are powerful tools for encouraging employees to strive for exceptional performance. If you’re in...

Look for the Possible - The Power of Yes/And Thinking "The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Abraham Lincoln. In this episode of "Stories Matter," host Gayle Turner emphasizes the importance of having a positive attitude and looking for opportunities to create a better future for yourself. He shares personal stories of understanding where he belonged and respecting his daughter’s...

S12 E5 Do Something - Bias for Action, Trusting Employees  "Stories are the currency of connection. We use them to connect with people and understand their perspectives." This quote sets the stage for this episode of Gayle Turner's Stories Matter podcast, where he shares his experiences of using storytelling as a leadership tool. Gayle Turner is a professional speaker and consultant who has helped...