5 Great storytelling steps you adjust for other cultures? Personal Coach

I one day many years ago I read a story from Dale Carnegie’s book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, and I still remember that story. At the time it was the best selling non-fiction book of all times.

I have two questions.

Why was (and still is) that book so wildly popular?
Why do I still remember some of the stories from the book?

Both of these help us understand the power of storytelling. You see, before we had records the only way to teach others was to tell them the story of what happened.

For thousands of years humans had voices and words the only way to pass lessons was to tell stories. Ever wonder why movies are still so popular? Movies are stories.

Let me take you back and answer the questions about Dale Carnegie’s book.

Dale’s book is so popular because it is full of stories that people remember. When people remember, they tell others. (Do you want people to remember your cite, service, product, etc?
I remember stories from that book because Dale wrote great stories. He wrote personal stores with emotions, the ups and downs of life, and much more. Those are the characteristics we connect with remember and share. (Do you want people to share your content?)

What are storytelling and curating?

1. Dale Carnegie taught us storytelling is giving details using a process. Dale’s process

begins (where and when)
with an incident (problem),
then follows steps (to fix said problem),
and then gives the result (solution) and learning (reflection),
and the action (we should take) and benefit (for taking that action).

Remember, you can adjust your wording to align with your target culture in all five steps of the process.

2. Curating is looking for and collecting stories. Every day we experience stories as we live in this human condition called life. Although many of our stories can be boring to some, our stories may be interesting to others.

Let me walk you through a step-by-step example of storytelling.

The other day I was in a local Starbucks working with my client Scott. (begins) Scott and I were adjusting his content marketing for other cultures.

Scott hired me because he told me whenever he looked at adjusting his content for other cultures he felt frustrated and overwhelmed. (incident) Scott was trying to make things too ideal, so basically his fears were taking advantage of what he didn’t know.

Massive success comes from aggressive trial and error. That day, I taught Scott a few simple steps he could take to adjust words to align with cultural value preferences.

I showed him

words that connect with individualistic cultures,
and other words that connect with collective cultures.

Then, I showed him

words that connect with nurturing communication cultures,
and words that connect with challenging communication cultures.

Finally, I showed him

words that connect with short-term thinking cultures,
and words that connect with long-term thinking cultures.(steps)

As Scott’s target markets are in seven countries in the East and the West, he could see what words to adjust for his different markets. (result) Once Scott could see the quick steps to take, he told me he felt much more confident and would keep adjusting for his target cultures to get more clicks. (learning)

Adjust words for your target cultures. (action) You’ll get more clicks. (benefit)

Although Scott used the same story for all 7 of his target cultures, he just changed a few terms to align with different culture value preferences. I just showed Scott how to do it so he can get it done, and he feels like he is always in control of the process.

DEFINITION: Giggers – those who have started their own Gig to live the New Gig Economy Lifestyle.

As Rand Fishkin says, can you? More later.

How do you rate? How do you stop others from taking advantage?

Remember…

Quiz yourself at this end of this blog to see how you fair?

Doc Warren Lifestyle Coach here…

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With my personal coach and mentor clients, and in classes where I teach a How to Become a Life Coach Certification course, we learn to stop others from taking advantage.

Giggers, channel your frustration into power. As The New Rich are effective Entrepreneurs, they have learned to stop others from taking advantage for experiencing optimal lifestyles.

Today we are aligning our Gigger Success Skill #7: Do not let people take advantage, with Gig Business Success Step-3: Automate and outsource.

Now, how about you? Are you trying to get things too ideal? Ever feel like you have to have things “just right” before you start doing a big thing you want to do, like building a Gig biz? ===> (e.g. building a side biz for extra cash)

Here’s the thing…

Time, circumstance, and skill will never be just right. See, many billions have been made by the words of this quote:

“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build you wings on the way down.” -Ray Bradbury

What counts is that we START. We begin to do the work. We take the needed leap of calculated faith.

Once we jump, then we have 100% momentum on our side. We are making moves. We’re kicking butt and taking names.

You can very imperfectly take action, and build a nice income and optimal lifestyle.

If you’d like to hop aboard on a proven, step-by-step plan? You’ll also have a guarantee and a personal coach in your corner.

You have to ask yourself, whenever you are producing any type of content, Who will amplify this and why? Rand Fishkin

All the best!

Warren Linger

Do Not Let People Take Advantage. Exercise #4:

As a Gigger in the global Gig economy, how can you Not Let People Take Advantage to build your Gig business to the next level?

Look at these examples where Giggers say they got support to not let people take advantage and found ways to overcome them to feel confident and build their Gig business to support their customer clans.

I was letting my customers from other countries take advantage, so I’ve automated so I get regular feedback and analytics
I’ve found I my affiliate program was taking advantage of me, so I hired a mentor to help me see what’s best
My suppliers from other cultures were taking advantage of me, so learned to use analytics and asked for what I needed

Write 3 ways you could get support to not let people take advantage and create your flow systems to have time to feel fully engaged developing yourself in your Gig and for your customer clan.

Look at your list and attack 1 (only one at a time but do try a new one every month) idea to apply this week:

Write your your idea where you could not let people take advantage.
List steps you see to overcome (e.g. digital media) to see opportunities and values for your clan.
Give yourself a metric to measure progress. (e.g. I will set a webinar for my customer clan feedback and learn from them when they want.)
Reward yourself after you have completed your steps to channel frustrations into unstoppable power.

Debrief: The point here is to get over your own “NO, I can’t,” response and develop yourself so you can have your business success and your optimal lifestyle.

If you are looking at this exercise and saying, “this feels awkward,” that is good. The important part is you will get used to it, as your life, family, and business depend on it.

You have to ask yourself, whenever you are producing any type of content, Who will amplify this and why? Rand Fishkin

NOTE: If you don’t learn to not let people take advantage, you may soon join the 80% of small businesses that fail within the first 5 years!

PS: Next time you will learn another step to your Gigger success as you learn to not let people take advantage. If you would like more developing your Gig business to the next level and living your optimal lifestyle, email me at drwarren@cict.co.

Hope this helps.

Doc Warren Linger

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Engagement background of Optimal Engagement Lifestyle

As a trainer and university lecturer in the USA, I had great success in my coaching, training, and classrooms by engaging my learners in ways I had learned from my Dale Carnegie Instructor Training. (optimal engagement)

After earning my Doctoral Degree researching engaging instruction in adult education and training and development, I started a training business in Hong Kong.

But something was wrong, I was struggling in this new culture (I’m a cattle rancher’s son from Colorado, USA) to find ways to inspire and motivate my coachees and students in Hong Kong.

With my coachees and in the classroom, I preferred having clients engage in learning activities instead of just talking. This is especially effective to keep clients engaged between coaching calls.

I struggled through trying several paper worksheets and workbooks to guide students, but I wasn’t getting the results I wanted. (junk engagement)

When the smart phone with the ability to search the internet came along, I could see my clients were curating (i.e. searching, finding, collecting, commenting, changing, remixing, and sharing.)

I thought, “Why not do that for learning?”, so I started asking them to answer questions, interact with information and colleagues, and go find examples of the learning content using their mobile devices.

eWorkbook development and success

I began searching for possibilities and I struggled testing several apps, until we created best practices using eWorkbooks, and after testing them, began to use eWorkbooks as my clients always had their devices with them.

Then we used eWorkbooks (Google Forms with the training slides as well as interactive questions , curating links and tasks, example images and videos, etc.) This became powerful for my coaching clients as they were able to share ideas and get the benefits of social learning even though they were not in the training course or classroom.

My clients [Engaging Screenagers] completed eWorkbooks using their mobile devices as they were learning interactively while, at the same time, they were developing habits of learning with their devices (optimal engagement) instead of killing time with them. (junk engagement)

Students used eWorkbooks to while I lead the discussion and guided them, and after they submitted their answers, they would get their responses sent to their inbox so they could review their learning Moments of Growth. (optimal engagement)

Because the students’ responses from eWorkbooks go right into a spreadsheet in real-time, as the teacher I can monitor what students are doing to give them guidance in the moment, as well as track their learning develop over time.

Since those early days, I’ve had great luck supporting my coaching clients and entrepreneur friends use Google forms for 360° reviews for evaluations as well as use eBrochures and eMenus to test new ideas and actively engage and actively interact with customers.

All client info has been scrubbed of identifying information unless they have given me specific, written permission to quote them.

Culture success skills adapted from: Cultures and Organizations: Software for the Mind 2nd Ed. (2005) Geert Hofstede and Gert Jan Hofstede, McGraw Hill, New York.

*Entrepreneurial Foundation>Success Skills adapted from World Life Skills Expert, Jill Raiguel’s awesome book, “The Next Step,” (1991) Amethyst Books, New York.

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