Be intentional about the stories and narratives you wish to cultivate! Thaler Pekar & Partners provides powerful C-Suite coaching and guidance in using our Narrative Garden tools. We consult with visionary leaders to guide you, your teams, and your organization in achieving your communication goals. We will work with you to weed out the undesired stories; plant new stories; nurture fledgling stories; and lead people on a path toward achieving your vision.
Your organization’s narrative informs and influences everything — your organizational culture, your stakeholder engagement, and even your ability to attract and retain talent.
Given the power of this overarching narrative, it’s essential to be intentional about it. You must plan for and cultivate the stories that contribute to your narrative and, in turn, allow your organization to flourish.
To assist the C-suite leaders who are our clients, Thaler Pekar & Partners has developed an analogy — and a suite of tools and trainings — that serves as a proprietary approach to achieving narrative clarity and alignment: the Narrative Garden.
Picture the overarching narrative of your organization as a garden. Projects and strategies are plots to be developed. Stories are the plantings that fill these garden plots.
By helping you thoughtfully cultivate your Narrative Garden — the overarching story that results from an amalgamation of discrete, smaller stories shared by multiple stakeholders across diverse outlets — our approach delivers agency, accentuates the active role of you as the leader, and provides clarity as you chart your organization’s path.
We work throughout your organization, achieving communication and cultural clarity through the application of the Narrative Garden across platforms, products, and audiences.
We guide you in connecting your vision, strategy, and impact to determine your existing and preferred Narrative Garden. And we work with you to motivate your teams and board to embrace and deploy your vision.
We deliver highly engaging and interactive keynotes that invite understanding of how small stories connect to form big narratives, and the role everyone plays in cultivating a Narrative Garden.
We work with you and your teams on applying proprietary tools and being intentional and strategic about cultivating your Narrative Garden.
As your preferred stories are discovered and determined, we gather them and work with you on refining and amplifying their place in your Narrative Garden through video, written stories, oral storytelling, archival materials, and other communication tools.
We provide supporting materials – written, video, and audio – that accelerate and sustain your application of the Narrative Garden, customized for your context and institution.
Narrative leadership requires identifying small stories that assemble into big narratives. As a leader, you can communicate what the garden is — and what it can be.
Challenge
A global pharmaceutical company approached us for help because they were encountering pushback in implementing a new compliance and integrity program.
Approach
We identified the opportunity to seed stories of the new protocols by highlighting the personal experiences of a select cohort of senior leaders around the world. We guided them in identifying, refining, and delivering their own stories containing the key elements of compliance and integrity. By focusing on these personal stories, leadership was able to efficiently and effectively demonstrate the expected norms and behaviors.
In targeted global programming, the leaders shared these stories, inviting their audiences to imagine themselves in culturally appropriate situations, and behaving with similar integrity.
Results
Through their stories, the leaders explained what to do — and what not to do. They spread stories about where they were already successfully implemented and tamped down on stories that were hindering implementation of the new protocols.
Nurturing the seemingly small stories in the large change narrative made the strategy real and more easily operational. The leadership invited participation in the new narrative and compliance accelerated.
As a result of our work, leadership was able to establish and execute successful new company-wide protocols.
Personalized programs start at $4,000. Schedule an exploratory appointment or book a consulting session. Let’s find out how to find, plant, grow, and prune the stories necessary to successful realization of your vision.