From everyone at The Chief Storyteller®, have a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2017. This is beautiful photograph of fireworks over Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy. One way to say Happy…
Ira KoretskyJanuary 1, 2017
This blog post is about Anadiplosis, a Repetition Figure of Speech. It is part of a series on repetition. I share them as the English language has hundreds of literary…
Ira KoretskyOctober 19, 2016
Here is a story from my friend and colleague Greg. He has had the unfortunate diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. When we would meet, he would tell bits and pieces of…
Ira KoretskyOctober 5, 2016
I learned that the great leaders know how to fail. In the course of your Army career you will likely fail and fail often. Nothing so steels you for battle like failure. No officer I watched got it right, every time. The great ones know that when they fail, they must pick themselves up, learn from their mistakes and move on.
I love my job. One of the best parts of is hearing from you about how our services or a workshop or even an idea opened up your brains, your…
Ira KoretskySeptember 7, 2016
Here's how you should tell a business story. It comes from a TEDx Talk from Jeff Hoffman (see below for the video). I was first introduced to Jeff at an…
Ira KoretskyJuly 12, 2016
A few months ago I posted "Phobias - a Big List." This was in response to a conversation I had with someone at a workshop about his fear of public…
Ira KoretskyJuly 11, 2016
The other day, a person in one of my LinkedIn groups posted this question about public speaking: "How to deal with requests for webinars, podcasts, speaking, etc. Wondering how people…
Ira KoretskyJune 22, 2016