Second City Training Center

An Easy Formula for Unlocking the Power of Storytelling

July 16, 2013 by beckysue

(A version of this post originally ran as a guest post on the Spin Sucks blog.) Study after study points to the power of storytelling to transform our communications, help us move and persuade audiences and get more of what we want out of life. I find people are either totally intimidated by the notion of … Read more

Start Your Presentations With a Bang Instead of a Whimper

November 10, 2011 by beckysue

In my writing classes at the Second City Training Center, we were assigned to come in each week with a 5-to-7-page sketch to present for the class and instructor’s dissection. (That was every week for nearly a year-and-a-half, by the way.) One day the instructor had us take the first two pages of our sketches … Read more