All posts tagged "Story Structure"

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Persuasion
Make Your Sales Presentations Land and Stick: Using Ancient Stories to Sell Modern Technology
Storytelling is as old as humanity itself. We’ve been telling stories to communicate, teach, and inspire for thousands of years. The best...
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Storytelling
The Most Successful Presentations Use This Framework
Stories are memorable, stories make a connection and so stories stick. All good. But if you don’t consider yourself a natural raconteur...
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A Good Presentation Needs Structure
When you deliver a presentation, you know what you want to say but your audience doesn’t. It’s like you are on one...
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Message
It’s Time to Maximize the Power of Storytelling
Take some time to remember one of the most famous of Aesop’s Fables. A slow, yet persistent reptile defeats a famously quick...
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Storytelling
Use Storytelling to Present with Power
Think of the last good movie you watched. It likely had bright images, a compelling script, music, rhythm and heroic characters. All...
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Storytelling
The Secret Weapon of the Most Successful Speakers
Imagine that you’ve been engaged to coach a senior speaker for an upcoming keynote presentation. You get up in the morning, put...
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Storytelling
How to Structure an Excellent Presentation
We came upon this great post on the teachers’ website busyteacher.org. It’s actually written by a teacher to teach other teachers how...
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Storytelling
Who is the Hero of Your Sales Presentation?
Heroes and villains don’t just exist in fairy tales for children. In our everyday life we are surrounded by them. A business...
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Write Great Speeches
How to Create a Speech that Works
Dr. Jim Anderson has over 25 years experience transforming shy public speakers into effective ones. We found this recent article from him...
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Storytelling
Even the Shortest Story Needs Structure
In a previous post we shared an anecdote about Ernest Hemingway, and his shortest story ever, just 6 words long. We then...
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Stories
Why Your Brain Likes A Good Tale – The Science of Storytelling
The human brain is wired for emotion, and we’ve spoken previously about how this can be used for effective pitches. Here, Doug...
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Inspiration
Storytelling, Muhammad Ali and the Importance of the Antagonist
We recently posted on the importance of simple Story Structure as the basic framework for every presentation made, speech written and story told. Without such...

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