The Thinking Leader Message Discipline, Leadership and Storytelling with Gavin McMahon
In this episode of The Thinking Leader, Bryce Hoffman and Marcus Dimbleby talk with Gavin McMahon of fassforward Consulting about the interrelation between leadership, storytelling and effective communication.
Gavin provides historical military examples of the importance of message discipline and explores how understanding different learning styles can help leaders engage employees. Alan Mulally's turnaround of Ford through values-based storytelling is also examined. You’ll learn strategies for adapting messages to changing contexts while maintaining organizational goals and vision.
In this episode:
- The connection between leadership, storytelling and effective decision making
- How key terms may be interpreted differently across an organization
- Why you should be adapting goals to solve new problems
- Why you need to engage more learning styles through visuals, activities and repetition in presentations
- What continuous improvement will do for your organization
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Bestselling business author Bryce Hoffman and agility expert Marcus Dimbleby talk about decision making, strategy, resilience and leadership with some of the world’s best CEOs, cognitive scientists, writers, and thinkers in this weekly podcast. Each episode offers new ideas and insights you can use to become a better leader and a better thinker – because bad leaders react, good leaders plan, and great leaders think!