How to Find Your Stories
How and where can you find stories to support your messages?
These stories are not the ones you tell to entertain your friends. These are stories to help you reinforce a point.
Tell your stories in conversations, meetings and presentations to be more effective in conveying your messages. You might wonder, “Where can I find my stories?”
The short answer is “All around you.”
Presentation Secret: Tell Your Story
When you tell stories in your presentations you will sell more, persuade more effectively and enjoy greater results from your presentations. You’ll also feel better about speaking because story telling is more comforting than giving a speech.
Most of us would rather tell stories than give a speech. Ask someone to choose between telling a story or giving a speech guess what they will pick. While public speaking gets high rating as a fear, storytelling does not.
Include stories in your presentation because it helps you deliver your message. Follow this simple formula to make stories work for you.
Under the Influence – Book Review
How to Become more Influential Influence has a lot to do with emotional intelligence, which is essentially having the awareness that emotions can drive our behaviour, which in turn has an impact on the people around us, whether it is positive or negative.
For Presentation Success Ask This Critical Question
Be clear on the desired outcome of your presentation, you’ll have a simple test for every slide, phrase, story and prop. If it doesn’t contribute to your purpose, leave it out.
Seven Pillars of a Powerful Presentation
A winning presentation is delivered by a presenter who looks and sounds powerful. A winner captures attention and conveys credibility. You can be more powerful