Stories at work

Behind every historic human accomplishment sits a simple and inspiring story. Contemporary  neuroscience and storytelling research now prove how vital the ordinary story is to the human brain; linking story to the ignition of powerful primal emotions that galvanise action. StoryBook harnesses the familiar story form and leverages story science to spark the hearts of your people. Minds and hands follow.  

Because your community get to co-own your StoryBook and the heroes that the community self-generates, StoryBook legitimacy and staff adoption happen quickly.

StoryBook is in the cloud 

StoryBook is easily distributed to every member  of your enterprise community over the internet on an inexpensive per-user fee basis.  We help you to set your StoryBook up in days and provide any support services or expertise you need to create and run your story brand programme. Because the secure StoryBook platform requires no infrastructure or management effort to administer, it is effortless and simple to run. 

StoryBook clients

StoryBook has most recently underpinned the Old Mutual Vision 2020 rewards and recognition programme.  The platform was also used by Deloitte to engage 4000 Southern African employees in the Deloitte Way programme for 4 years. StoryBook also helped PG Glass to frame their brand story and guide staffers contributions to it. Other programmes include CFMC Australia, Girls and Boys Town SA and CRS – a Centric Holdings group company. Results achieved for Deloitte earned FuseWorks a Deloitte Admired Vendor accolade in 2015.

 

“The StoryBook platform helped Deloitte consolidate our employee engagement effort across Southern Africa for 4 years. We quickly achieved and kept an 80% engagement level”.

– Philip Grobler. Past HR Director. Deloitte

“Our Phumelela Champions programme focussed all our staff on our brand story. We achieved great results”.

– Ilse Blank. Past Marketing and Communications manager. PG Glass 

Our story

StoryBook is a FuseWorks (Pty) Ltd product. FuseWorks formed in 2001 to supply a blend of human engagement expertise, story-telling science and tech to fire up the energy of enterprise communities. In our time we have helped blue-chip and mean-and-lean enterprise to achieve a unique people edge and the bottom line paybacks that aligned and inspired people deliver to their brands. In addition to the satisfying reward of long-lasting client relationships, our work has earned us a Tech 100 Award and a PSA’s Innovator of the Year Finalist Award.  FuseWorks is based in Sandton in South Africa.

Our People

Jonathan Hall

StoryBook is the brain child of the FuseWorks CEO Jonathan Hall. Before forming FuseWorks in 1997, Jonathan played a key role in the development of the PPC Ltd brand story and the staff engagement programme that together delivered rapid and high market share gains. The programmes earned PPC three consecutive Best Company To Work For awards and an IMM Marketing Company of the Year Award. Jonathan has since applied his hands-on employee engagement experience and applied neuroscience to imagine, design and run a string of highly successful engagement programmes in and out of South Africa.

Our People

Mathew Payne

Mathew is the expert behind FuseWorks innovative tech. He brought his T4 electrical engineering qualification competence to the firm in 1998 and has added a wide range of software development, database design and administration, and security skills to his experience and the team since. Today Mathew manages the FuseWorks development team and client solution implementations which include technical and security compliance functions. Mathew also sits on FuseWorks business case design and business specification team that collaborates to ensure the integration of business logic and best-fit tech efficiency.