Most likely you will start your presentation with introducing yourself. You do it because it is polite to do so. Or because that is what you have seen everyone else practice. If that is how you have started, you have just wasted the most precious time. Why? Think about this, if someone has decided to listen to you present, there is a high chance that they know who you are. Checking you out online...

Learning from a workshop is not a framework and methodology hoarding exercise. For all my Strategic Storytelling Workshops I suggest tailored content to the key client contact beforehand. I make these suggestions based on audience profiling that I do prior to the workshop. Almost always, my key contact asks me, "Can we cover more content?" For them, the rationale is, it takes time, effort and...

A speaker is often asked, "Can I have your powerpoint presentation slides?" I speak on Storytelling at least once a month and I am yet to come across a time when I was not asked, "Can I have your Power Point Presentation Slides?" What is my response? "My slides are pictures with a few words on it. They have no meaning without me. So, I am not sure what you will do with it?" There was a time in my...

Recently, I had the opportunity to work with a group of lawyers where in a short period of time we had to craft 6 different stories which conveyed a point. Did we manage to craft the stories in the short period of time we had? Yes, of course we did. The group came up with stories that moved the audiences so much that we had claps, cheers, standing ovations and tears. A part of me was thrilled to...

Recently, I had the opportunity to deliver a session on Organisational Storytelling to post graduate students of one of Singapore's most reputed universities. Over these two days of engagement, the students and I worked on lots of scenarios, like communicating your idea to investors, presenting with stories, making a case using stories, and so on. At one stage over the two days, I noticed that...

This is our 3rd blog on Storytelling Techniques for Transforming Presentations For those who have missed Part 1 and Part 2, the questions I answer in Storytelling Techniques for Transforming Presentations blog series are questions I have been asked by clients. So, this blog series is a curation of answers to those questions. In this blog we will answer only 1 question. Why ? Because, it is the...