New Leadership Book Wins Axiom Business Book Award

Leaders People Love (Penguin Business, 2023) by Yeo Chuen Chuen received a silver medal within the Axion Business Book Awards for the class Company Culture. The Axiom Business Book Awards are a revered guidepost for enterprise books, meant to convey elevated recognition to exemplary enterprise books.

“This e-book is a refreshing departure from conventional management literature,” writes Chow Song Chee, Head of People at Ordinary Folk, in a evaluate of the e-book that highlights the significance of Yeo’s skill to inform highly effective tales. “She delves into the deeper, extra human features of management… Her insights resonate with readers (like me) on a private stage, difficult us to replicate on our personal management model and values.”

Yeo credit Leadership Story Lab’s Certified Story Facilitation (CSF) class with the success of the e-book. “The core ideas from CSF sharpen my skill to suppose from the viewers perspective,” shared Yeo. “While I used to be already attuned to my viewers’s wants and ache factors, making use of the ideas of curation to strategically evoke feelings made my tales much more compelling.”

Yeo shared that she wrote a management story utilizing Kung Fu Panda through the CSF class, and the workshopping helped refine it. This story was later integrated into Leaders People Love, turning into some of the resonant tales within the e-book. Using a popular film helped Yeo create the proper relatable instance to replicate the internal struggles of many leaders.

“Many seasoned leaders inform me my tales made them replicate deeper,” stated Yeo. “One even instructed me, he confronted his model of reality and challenged his working precept all these years. This reveals that storytelling, when performed powerfully, can shift essentially the most resistant minds.”

The Certified Story Facilitation course has been supplied by means of Leadership Story Lab since 2020. The pandemic impressed the digital class, however the success has impressed Esther Choy, Founder and Chief Story Facilitator at Leadership Story Lab, to proceed even after the stay-at-home orders had been lifted.

“The neighborhood we construct and outcomes we see throughout these programs are superb,” stated Choy. “Because it’s digital we get to work with leaders from all over the world, sharing and workshopping tales collectively. It’s highly effective.”