Journal of Management Development: Volume 30 Issue 3

The use and abuse of storytelling in organizations

Adrian N. Carr, Cheryl Ann Cheryl Ann (formerly Lapp)

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the manner in which storytelling has become an increasingly common part of management development, and to highlight some of the use and…

Power and the tale: coaching as storyselling

Stefanie C. Reissner, Angélique Du Toit

This paper aims to propose, discuss and evaluate a four‐stage model of storyselling and its accompanying power dynamics, which are at the heart of coaching in organisations.

Narrating around

Florence Maria Rudolf Céline Basten

The learning history is designed to describe the coming about of best practices, with their reproduction in mind. This paper seeks to discuss the implications of this instrument…

Unravelling sutured stories: coaching NHS managers out from under the quilt

Mervyn Conroy

The aim of this paper is to show how storytelling and MacIntyre's virtue ethics theoretical schema can inform a new approach to management development and coaching. It also…

Interactive media: image storytelling

Robert van Boeschoten

The purpose of this paper is to describe the influence of the technology on storytelling in an organisational setting. How do we tell each other stories in projects with digital…

Inside outside leadership development: coaching and storytelling potential

Cheryl Ann Cheryl Ann (formerly Lapp), Adrian N. Carr

In this paper, the authors act as leadership development coaches who show that how a story is constructed, reconstructed and circulated in and through organizations make stories…