May 24, 2006

Conversations with CPsquare and Steven Denning about "The Leader's Guide to Storytelling."

Join us for conversations with Steve Denning (http://www.stevedenning.com/), CPsquare members and guests about Steve's most recent book, "The Leader's Guide to Storytelling." The book has many useful and interesting ideas for people working in the communities of practice area. The CPsquare community has a tradition of reading books together, combining online discussion and telephone calls over a short and intense period of time.

DATES: July 17 to August 4.

Phone calls and themes:

  • Mon July 17 - Opening questions and scope: Narrative and Leadership
  • Thu July 20 - Values and intentions
  • Fri July 28 - Communities and collaboration
  • Thu August 3 - Knowledge: stories that are characteristic of CoPs

THEMES:

  • Mon July 17 - Opening questions and scope: Steve will tell the story of how he discovered the power of storytelling in organizations, and use it to introduce the eight major narrative patterns in his book, The Leader's Guide to Storytelling, with particular reference to the meaning of leadership and springboard stories. He will introduce the five main dimensions of a story, and review how they relate to the eight narrative patterns of high value business narratives. (The conversation will refer particularly to Chapters 1 and 3 of The Leader's Guide to Storytelling)
  • Thu July 20 - Values and intentions (behind & communicated by stories): The conversation will focus on chapter 6 of The Leader's Guide to Storytelling. It will discuss the four different varieties of organizations values and review the role that narratives can play in transmitting and enhancing values.
  • Fri July 28 - Communities and collaboration: The conversation will focus mainly on chapter 7 of The Leader's Guide to Storytelling. It will review the similarities and differences of workgroups, teams, communities and networks. It will review twelve narrative methods for generating communities and high performance teams. It will discuss how communities thrive on values, rather than rules.
  • Thu August 3 - Knowledge - stories that are characteristic of CoPs: The conversation will focus mainly on chapter 8 of The Leader's Guide to Storytelling. It will review the nature of stories that transmit knowledge, as well as the challenges in successfully implementing knowledge management programs.

COST:

  • Free to CPsquare members
  • $30 for others (see Guest policy below)

VOLUNTEERS CAN BRING A GUEST

  • An intensive event like this requires much concerted effort (see task list below)
  • Each person who volunteers (whether they are a CPsquare member or a paying guest) can invite one other guest who participates for free

TASKS for which you can volunteer

(sign-up sheet opens the week before the event)
  • Facilitate one of the 4 phone calls
  • Produce summary notes for one of the 4 phone calls
  • Facilitate one of the 4 online discussion themes
  • Produce a summary of one of the 4 online discussion themes

WHO'S INVITED:

CPsquare members, friends and guests If you're joining us, please order the book now: It's not much fun if people try to participate in the discussion without having the book handy. (In fact, it's best if you've finished reading it by the time the discussion starts!)

HOW TO REGISTER:

If you are NOT a CPsquare member (members don't need to register for this event) register by completing this form: