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Zoë Arden
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May 14, 2026
Why storytelling matters in project management
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18:17Zoë ArdenGUEST
so what it means by is by starting by listening to the people that you're trying to influence.
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18:25Zoë ArdenGUEST
Um, you know, what is it that they care about? Really digging into why your project is going to be important for them.
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18:35Zoë ArdenGUEST
Um, so it's walking in the shoes of our stakeholders, um, seeing what the world looks like through their eyes, and that's where our stories start.
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18:45Zoë ArdenGUEST
Um, so I think, you know, that's the k- that's a, a stage that we so often miss out on, and I actually hear people go, "I don't have the time to do that." Well, you're never gonna connect with the people that you need to have on side if you don't have a sense of what matters to them.
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19:03Zoë ArdenGUEST
So that's the most important sort of stage I say about creating stories, which often people overlook.
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22:17Emma DevitaHOST
But on the flip side, do you have any advice on how to talk about failures or things that went wrong that you might actually personally find quite difficult to talk about, and you might feel a bit scared about kind of, you know, blame culture and that kind of stuff?