C. Frederic John

Storytelling and Market Research (eBook, PDF)

A Practical User Guide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Showing how market researchers can get a seat at the decision-making table, this book is the essential guide to mastering storytelling techniques that can dramatically enhance the impact of research reports and presentations, commanding full audience engagement and buy-in.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000473360
• Artikelnr.: 62603476

Autorenporträt

C. Frederic John enjoys a global reputation as a strategic researcher with a career spanning over 40 years. He specializes in melding profound insights into concrete recommendations for clients, and in crafting compelling research deliverables using story-telling techniques.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
A) A Human Condition
B) Getting Down to Business
C) The Need to Evolve
Chapter I: The Fundamental Power of Story
A) The Ubiquity of Story
B) The Transformative Properties of Story
C) The Sacred Role of the Storyteller
D) The Market Researcher as Storyteller
Chapter II: The Immediate and the Essential
A) Story as Novelty
B) Story as the Essential Learning
C) Extracting the Essence
Chapter III: Tales Clients Tell
A) What Clients Believe, What They Tell Us
B) Sources of Client (Mis)Belief
C) An Added Benefit
Chapter IV: The Written Report as Narrative
A) Approaching the Report
B) Incorporating Storytelling into the Preliminary Sections
C) Selecting Content for the Detailed Findings Narrative
D) Managing the Flow
E) Suspending Disbelief: Accepting our Reality as "Authentic"
F) Juxtaposing Elements
G) Stimulating Identification and Empathy with Characters/Situations
H) Achieving Closure in Closing
Chapter V: A Radically New Approach to the Presentation
A) A Wasted Opportunity
B) Introducing a Radically New Approach
C) Selecting Content: Less is More
D) What About the Deck?
E) The Manipulation of Expectation
F) Juxtaposing Elements in Presentations
G) Suspending Disbelief from the Get-Go
H) Wrapping-Up with a Bang
Chapter VI: Humanizing the Presentation
A) Humanizing the Material
B) Humanizing Yourself
C) Introducing the Extraneous
D) Humanizing Through Storytelling Techniques
Chapter VII: Recasting the Narrative as an Imaginary Tale
A) A Daring Leap Through the Looking Glass
B) The Nature of the Beast
C) Sample Tales
D) Taking the Plunge
Chapter VIII: The Story of a Company or Brand
A) What Is/What Isn't a Corporate / Brand Story
B) Comparisons with Other Communications
C) Crafting the Successful Corporate Story
D) Focus on the Brand
Chapter IX: Continuous Learning
A) Internalizing the Learning
B) A Day in Your Life
C) A Longer Arc of Your History
D) Continuous Engagement with the Arts
E) Applying the Learning
F) Parting Words
Appendix: "Landscape and Narrative" by Barry Lopez
Index