How to Tell Your Story: 3 Essentials
If you want to position yourself for success in the workplace, the marketplace and everyday life, it’s important to learn how to tell your story. Here are 3 stories every professional needs.
Storytelling
The Ferris Bueller Guide to Smarter Storytelling
There’s a wonderful scene in the classic American ’80s film, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, that holds the key to smarter storytelling.
From SNL to The Fugitive: Check Out This Podcast
I had a great conversation about storytelling and presentation skills and other topics with writer, speaker and communications consultant Donna Papacosta. It’s all captured in this podcast on her site at Trafalgar Communications. We talk about some of the classic lessons from my book, including: The power of stories. How to cut to the chase in … Read more
Sharpen Your Storytelling — A Quick Lesson from Ronald Reagan
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoPu1UIBkBc&w=420&h=315] Whether you think Ronald Reagan was a great communicator or THE great communicator or simply a decent one, the man knew how to tell a story and land a joke. A great example is the now-legendary moment during a 1984 debate with Walter Mondale. For those who weren’t alive or sentient then, there … Read more
In Storytelling, Keep It Simple (Stupid)
Storytelling is both deceptively simple and deceptively complex. That is, people either underestimate or overestimate its difficulty. As a result, some people get intimidated and don’t believe they can tell a decent story. Others are undeterred, and go around claiming their anecdotes and accounts of their everyday travails are actual stories. So striking the right … Read more
Three Things Every (Real) Story Must Have
The ancient art of storytelling is one of the most powerful forms of communication. If that’s news to anybody on the planet I would be absolutely shocked. Yet I see story after story about the science of storytelling. How we respond to them on an unconscious level. How they activate our brain. But rarely do … Read more