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How to Tell Stories in Your Presentation
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The best speakers are storytellers. Tell stories to engage your listeners and make your point. Stories can help build trust with your listeners. If the story is funny – that is a bonus. Don’t tell a story just because you find it funny. That does not serve your purpose.
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.”
Put the Audience in Your Story
Fully engage your audience with your stories by putting them in the story. Help them see and feel the circumstances personally.
Imagine how your audience feels when they experience your story as opposed to simply hearing it.
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.
Why Should You Tell Stories?
Have you noticed that the best presenters tell captivating stories? Did you know that you can improve the power of your presentations and conversations by telling more stories?
Do you need encouragement to use stories more often when you speak.
Three reasons why you should tell more stories…
Speaking to a Tough Audience? Difficult Speaking Challenge
How do you manage when speaking to a tough and challenging audience? The first question might be, ‘How do you define a tough audience?” Is it tough when they don’t laugh at your jokes? Is that an audience that fails to actively participate in your group activities? It is a group of people who openly oppose your position and ideas? Are there a few disruptive people in the group who don’t want to play your silly games?
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.
Open Your Presentation with Pizzazz
The opening to your presentation is critical to your success. You shouldn’t be surprised that poor speakers have poor openings. When you speak, you can recover from many mistakes during your presentations – but a weak opening isn’t one of them. Be sure to start your presentation strong.
Know the Room – Own the Room when You Present
Do you want to own the room when you speak? A successful presentation starts when you own the room. When you own the room, you will be a more powerful and confident presenter. That leads to more successful presentations.