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WorkLife Stories from School of WorkLife Episode: How Strategic Opening Lines Transform Creative Sessions Into Breakthrough Thinking
Learning how strategic opening lines transform creative sessions into breakthrough thinking is what separates innovation sessions that produce ideas teams are energised by from ones that produce ideas nobody remembers by Monday morning.
Trevor had been running innovation sessions for years — well-organised, professionally facilitated, and producing ideas that were technically competent and entirely predictable. This is the story of the moment a child's impossible question showed him that the opening line of every session had been the thing preventing the breakthrough thinking his team was entirely capable of.
RESOURCES MENTIONED
The Storytelling Newsletter (Free) Short, focused, and grounded in real WorkLife situations — how we communicate, lead, make decisions, and navigate challenges at work.
Story Lesson How Strategic Opening Lines Transform Creative Sessions Into Breakthrough ThinkingLearn how to open creative sessions with possibility rather than constraint — and give the talent in your room genuine permission to think beyond what already exists.
Guided Programme The Art of First Impressions: Mastering Opening Lines That Captivate Your Audience Programme How to Create Immediate Engagement Using the Six Elements of Powerful Openings
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The stories I write are based on real WorkLife challenges, obstacles, failures and successes. Persons and companies portrayed in the stories are not based on real people or entities. Carmel O’ Reilly
