“In presentations and speeches less really is more.”
Irish author Stephen Keague
It’s true. Audiences don’t complain about a presentation being too short.
Recently I heard the actor, talk show host and professional storyteller Graham Norton, give a basic guide on how to tell a story well. ‘It’s an art form as old as Time’ he said. He’s right. We’ve been telling stories since the Pleistocene era.
Today we also use stories to make business presentations, pitches and meetings more effective and memorable.
"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
Einstein sums up one of the basic rules of speaking.
So when you prepare your next speech/presentation make sure you:
On strategic storytelling - ‘Tell to Win’ author and business guru Peter Guber describes purposeful storytelling as a ‘Trojan Horse’. An audience takes in a good story not realising they’ve received the teller’s hidden message. Sneaky? Maybe. But it works.
Read more about our Strategic Story Telling workshops for Corporates
You’ve probably heard the old maxim ‘people may forget what you said, and they may forget what you did, but they will never, ever forget how you made them feel.’
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