Storytelling for Influence
Purpose:
Unlock the mysteries behind great, simple storytelling while revealing to everyone’s annoyance that it’s mostly stuff they didn’t know they already knew.
Format: Workshop, Conference or Course
Category: Soft Skills
Themes: Revelatory, improvement, useful
Capability Gaps addressed:
a) Interpersonal communication.
b) Overcome shyness/reticence to give input.
c) Increased clarity in general communication.
d) Increased Empowerment and Involvement.
The Business case:
a) Improve pitching, presentation and communication.
b) More efficient/engaging internal/external meetings.
c) Improve knowledge transfer and internal training
d) All of the above helps productivity.
The (slow) elevator pitch:
Every pitch and presentation requires storytelling. So do arguments and excuses. When you think about it, storytelling is a huge part of work-life and life-life.
In this workshop, we break down the elements of storytelling and investigate some of the tools at our disposal to aid our storytelling.
The content, examples and analogies featured in this workshop are refined for your industry/audience to increase engagement, relevance and retention.
Contains strong language (in context).
Potentially Asked Questions:
Storytelling? Really? Aren’t we a little old for this?
This kind of storytelling doesn’t involve picture books. Although we’re confident we could make the same points by using them. Storytelling for influence is about organising information in ways that create a compelling argument. Yes, we could have called this stream ‘Arguing 101’ but Monty Python would have sued us.
Isn’t storytelling just lying?
You’re possibly thinking of telling tales or ‘tall stories’. We don’t recommend or advise that you use the lessons we teach in ‘Storytelling for influence’ to lie or for nefarious purposes. That would be wrong.
How can telling stories improve our work?
There are plenty of ways to describe an action or event. Using storytelling techniques help give those descriptions a sense of time and place, relevance and detail, not to mention added colour, flavour and interest. All of these factors make the information we are imparting engaging and ultimately more successful.
What outcomes will we, as a team, get from this?
As a bare minimum you’ll gain an understanding of the underlying issues and what effect they have. Hopefully, this will pave the way for some revelations and personal epiphanies on they way to a reset towards a more unified workforce who can communicate without boring each other to death.
Who is this topic aimed at?
Any modern workplace containing people. If that sounds disconcertingly vague or unhelpfully broad, it’s an unfortunate reality of the current state of things. There’s a general collective fugue about the place at the moment, and We Have Ways to help shake it off. So, yes, this topic is aimed at everyone.
But we’re not a ‘team’ we’re a ‘family’.
Ok, no you’re not. But even if you think or say you are, families are among the most aggressively diverse and fractious organisations imaginable. Have you ever been or lived with a teenager? Families are still teams for all intents and purposes for this exercise, so let’s just stick with that.
Want to know more?
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