Motivating and persuading your colleagues and customers through storytelling is a powerful way to bring about impactful change and growth. It's important for leaders to understand their audience's needs and preferences so they can provide an approach that resonates with them. At its core, storytelling is about articulating a story and building a presentation that captures your audience's attention, imagination and engagement. It can be used to build relationships, influence decisions, solve problems, and create meaningful connections between people.
Motivating and persuading your colleagues and customers through storytelling is a powerful way to bring about impactful change and growth. It's important for leaders to understand their audience's needs and preferences so they can provide an approach that resonates with them. At its core, storytelling is about articulating a story and building a presentation that captures your audience's attention, imagination and engagement. It can be used to build relationships, influence decisions, solve problems, and create meaningful connections between people.
Program Experience
In this workshop, you will learn techniques for motivating and persuading your professional colleagues and customers in presentations and status reports. The course emphasizes techniques and exercises to overcome anxiety, define message content, control your voice and physical presence, and energize your presentations.
Create strategies that lead to successful outcomes as you leverage the power of compelling storytelling into your presentation for more effective communicators in any setting. With this tool in your arsenal, you can ensure your message is heard with maximum impact.
Benefits
You will learn to:
Identify the key parts of a memorable presentation
Identify the purpose of the presentation
Determine your audience’s perspective
Layout an approach and content for the presentation
Use presentation techniques that wow your audience
Use storytelling to enhance the richness of your presentations
Topics
The key parts of a memorable presentation
The purpose of the presentation
Understanding your audience’s perspective
Building content for the presentation
Using storytelling to enhance the richness of your presentations
Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for anyone who needs to develop their presentation skills, become more comfortable speaking in front of groups or sell ideas to others. Whether a front-line manager or senior executive, this course will help you articulate presentations and storytelling.
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