Here are links to the free resources for StoryMaking. You’re welcome to download them and use them so long as you fully reference where you’ve got them from and don’t claim them as yours etc. Free business storytelling tools — what’s not to love!
Here is a PNG version of the SOAPscorecard. It’s A6 sized and this is the front page only.
You can use the scorecard to jot down your stories, and then to look at how well they handle the SOAP challenge… and (obviously) look at how you can move them from one SOAP bubble to another. That makes more sense when you’ve got the cards in your hand, I promise.
It’s a key starting point for the StoryMaking system — business storytelling is easier when you’ve got a library of stories and you’ve organised them!
There’s a mini-ebook here! (It’s only three sides of A4, so it’s more of an article than an ebook! “Finding Stories” has seven tactics for finding stories in the everyday world around us. You can’t do business storytelling if you’ve not got stories… here’s how to find them.
Here’s another short ebook (eight pages) this time. It’s less about business storytelling directly and more about the broader use of stories.
It looks at why stories work, so you know what’s what, and then has a bunch of simple, tactical tools, for how you can apply that learning in your story using.
Get it here.
Drop me a line at heroes [at] storymaking [dot] business