SuccessStory Case Studies & Example Scenarios

Case Studies &
Example Scenarios

How to implement the power of storytelling and story design.

STORY can be applied to any business or organization, and to any activity within that business or organization. At SuccessStory™, we understand how individuals, leaders, teams, and whole communities can harness the power of STORY to help them achieve a nearly infinite array of objectives.

But we also understand that STORY may be alien and unfamiliar to many in the business world. We understand your resistance, your need to get to the heart of the matter quickly, and your desire for practical, real-world results.

So to help you understand specifically how STORY can be applied, we’ve created some Example Scenarios on this page:

STORY applied to
“Dynamic Leadership”

Your Need:

To cultivate insightful, dynamic leaders who are able to develop cohesive teams and lead them to targeted success.
The Old Approach:

Traditional leadership programs try to mold leaders into cliché archetypes by pigeonholing individuals using outdated psychological models. The skills and knowledge delivered are detached from immediate workplace needs, leading to short- lived inspiration that doesn’t deliver ongoing or adaptable results.
How STORY can help:

With an understanding of STORY, leaders can connect with the core purpose of their team or organization, and the importance of their key role within it. This unlocks deep insight, understanding, and creativity that is organic to the nature of their role. They can identify problems, inject creative solutions, and connect with their team with in dynamic, fluid and original ways.
The SUCCESS Story:

Our unique set of leadership tools, techniques, and story skills help leaders identify their success outcome, and craft the story of achieving it — with the flexibility to adapt as the story changes.

STORY applied to
“Extraordinary Team-Building”

Your Need:

To build effective groups that work together passionately and synergistically to achieve clear and empowering objectives.
The Old Approach:

Traditional team-building exercises are haphazard and unfocused, usually consisting of random bonding activities or events designed to introduce variety and interaction. Little understanding or care is given to the specific needs of a given team, and the “teams” often end up falling into predictable autocratic structures based on members’ current status.
How STORY can help:

With an understanding of STORY, teams can quickly and easily grasp the relationship of the members, and identify and recognize their specific purpose. Teams bond more effectively, and at deeper and more meaningful levels, due to their common cause. This encourages emotional investment and gives individual members tangible skills applicable to any future team.
The SUCCESS Story:

Our unique set of team-building tools, techniques, and story skills help teams identify their success outcome, and craft the story of achieving it — with the flexibility to adapt as the story changes.

STORY applied to
“Targeted Innovation”

Your Need:

To provide a clear and specific pathway for your team to transform ideas into tangible, effective, next-generation solutions.
The Old Approach:

Most organizations simply use “innovation” as a buzzword to mean ideas that are good for the business, or ways to increase efficiency. As a result, most attempts at encouraging innovation follow a top-down approach, or a simply iterative approach. This misunderstanding of innovation fails to inspire and dulls the impact of this absolutely essential skill.
How STORY can help:

With an understanding of STORY, any business or organization can see varying layers of context — how their role fits into their own story, the story of their industry, and the story of the wider world. This empowers stakeholders to instantly identify areas of true innovation, by helping them to see their purpose in whole new and unexpected ways. This leads to genuine innovation.
The SUCCESS Story:

Our unique set of story tools, techniques, and skills help individuals and organizations identify any success outcome, and craft the story of achieving it. The offers something akin to x-ray vision, and the ability to truly innovate.

STORY applied to
“Hidden Disruptions & Competition”

Your Need:

To recognize how and when new innovations will disrupt your industry and displace its established order — or to initiate that disruption.
The Old Approach:

If organizations keep an eye on their competition at all, it is usually limited to areas of direct competition with a focus on strategies and market share. Information is acquired through social media, research or other strategic observation, but the results are typically reactionary. Little thought and even less consideration is given to the wider impacts of social or industry change, which leaves organizations caught by surprise when true disruption occurs.
How STORY can help:

With an understanding of STORY, individuals and organizations can see beyond the immediate situation or scenario, and identify the context of any competitive or disruptive environment. Beyond mere innovation, story enables us to expand our imagination and invent or anticipate creative alternatives to the traditional ways of an industry.
The SUCCESS Story:

Our unique set of story tools, techniques, and skills help individuals and organizations identify any success outcome, and craft the story of achieving it. The offers something akin to x-ray vision, and the ability to truly innovate.

STORY applied to
“Strategic Start-Up Planning”

Your Need:

To design a visionary and achievable mission for a new venture, and craft a clear strategic roadmap that ensures long-term success and viability.
The Old Approach:

Startups often launch without a strategic plan, filled with such passion that they don’t envisage failure or potential pitfalls, leading to a misuse of resources. The traditional solution is to create strategic or business plans that focus on mundane details that strip the venture of its passion and disconnect it from the wider picture.
How STORY can help:

With an understanding of STORY, startups can connect with their mission, vision, and wider purpose in a deeply affecting way, creating a greater link to the meaning and importance of every detail. When they start with WHY, new ventures act with greater synergy and integrity throughout the organization, and STORY makes that WHY tangible, visceral, emotional, and inspiring.
The SUCCESS Story:

Our unique set of strategic tools, techniques, and story skills help startups identify their success outcome — their purpose, meaning, and methods — and craft the story of achieving it.