Storytelling will dramatically increase your ability to effectively inform, engage, inspire, and persuade your audience. Storytelling also helps to humanize the speaker, increasing your ability to connect and engage with your audience. Furthermore, storytelling dramatically increases your ability to effectively explain complex concepts, data, topics, and/or theories. Utilizing IGs “Storyboarding” tool, you will develop and deliver compelling, engaging, inspiring, informative, and memorable stories.
Course Outline
Personal Stories
Personal stories help to humanize you, increasing your ability to connect and engage with your audience. A personal story can be emotional. However, it does not need to be emotional to be effective. In this exercise, your Senior IG Instructor will guide you through the process of developing personal stories which have a direct link to your previous, current, and/or future contributions to your organization.
Life-Changing Stories
Life-changing stories are about the people who have mentored and guided you to be the person you are today. In this exercise, your Senior IG Instructor will guide you through the process of developing a life-changing story that has shaped you into the person you are today and how it has made you a better person and contributor to your organization.
Client Stories
An effective customer story must be about how and why you value your clients/customers. Your story must include why, when, and how you have valued your client. In this exercise, your Senior IG Instructor will guide you through the process of developing a story that clearly defines the value you provide your client.
Success Stories versus Stories of “Failure”
We should celebrate our successes. However, no one is perfect. We all make mistakes. We may learn more from our failures than our successes. It’s not as important to highlight your mistakes compared to the lessons you have learned from those mistakes. In this exercise, your Senior IG Instructor will guide you through the process of developing a story that acknowledges the mistakes you have made, how you learned from them, and how those lessons learned have made you a better person and contributor to your organization.
Quest Narrative
A quest narrative is a story in which you have strived towards personal or business goals. Your story will detail how you faced multiple crises, obstacles, and/or personal and professional challenges along the way. In this exercise, your Senior IG Instructor will guide you through the process of developing your story, which details how you have risen in the face of multiple challenges and how that has made you a better person and contributor to your organization.