Teaching you to find your authentic voice and engage others through the power of your own stories.
Summary
This course is designed to teach individuals how to find their authentic voice and engage audiences through the power of personal storytelling. It focuses on practical, action-oriented lessons aimed at improving public speaking by utilizing personal narratives. Here is an overview of what learners can expect:
Key Learning Outcomes
- Engage and Intrigue Audiences: Learn techniques to captivate audiences from the very beginning of any speech.
- Develop Personal Stories: Use action-ready lectures to craft compelling personal stories that can be immediately applied.
- Time-Saving Techniques: Discover efficient methods for writing speeches.
- Recognize Story Opportunities: Identify moments in personal experiences that can be transformed into engaging stories.
- Pre-Writing Knowledge: Understand the critical information needed before starting to write a speech.
- Theory to Action Ratio: The course is structured with 25% theory and 75% practical application, ensuring that learners can quickly improve their next speech.
Requirements
Participants should have a journal or notepad to record and develop their personal story ideas throughout the course.
Course Description
The course emphasizes the significant impact personal stories have on audience engagement, backed by brain studies. The instructor, with 13 years of teaching experience, underscores that personal stories resonate more than mere facts or statistics. The course offers simple actions to make stories more engaging and memorable, covering:
- The dramatic effect of storytelling on public speaking.
- Five key considerations before crafting personal stories.
- A five-step process to writing engaging personal stories.
- Strategies for incorporating stories into speeches.
Who Should Take This Course
This course is suitable for public speakers, teachers, business professionals, and anyone interested in improving their storytelling abilities to engage audiences of any size. It’s designed for those looking to captivate the imagination of their listeners effectively.
Course Structure
The course is divided into five sections with 33 lectures totaling 1 hour and 10 minutes. Here’s a brief overview:
- Introduction: Overview of the instructor’s experience and course structure.
- Fundamentals of Storytelling: Explanation of storytelling’s impact on the brain and confirmation that everyone is a natural storyteller.
- Preparation: Detailed instructions on knowing your purpose, constraints, audience, desired outcome, and story.
- Story Development: Practical steps to building a story bank, creating a detail storm cloud, writing personal action stories, making the main point clear, and preparing stories for various occasions.
- Application: Guidance on how to use these stories in speeches, along with five key points to remember for personal stories and public speaking.
Conclusion and Resources
The course concludes with a bonus lecture on turning knowledge into skill, a thank you note, and additional resources for those seeking further improvement.
By following this structured approach, learners will gain the tools needed to develop compelling personal stories and effectively incorporate them into their speeches, enhancing their public speaking skills significantly.
What You’ll Learn
- Discover how to engage and intrigue your audiences right from the beginning of any speech.
Requirements
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View these lectures with a journal or notepad so you can record and develop personal story ideas.
Description
Would you like to tell personal stories that impact and engage any audience?
How would you like to use your own PERSONAL STORIES to leave a lasting impression with any kind of group?
You don’t have to be a TED Talks speaker to benefit from the practical, action-ready lessons in this course.
All you need is a willingness to develop your own personal stories.
I have been a classroom teacher for 13 years, and I’ve spoken to groups of 10’s and groups of 1000’s, and one thing that I’ve learned through all of my experience is:
Audiences connect better to personal stories.
Studies of the brain show that personal storytelling engages an audience significantly more than just communicating facts and statistics.
In this course, I will show you the SIMPLE ACTIONS you need to take to make your own personal stories more engaging, more intriguing, and more memorable.
In this course you will:
* Understand the dramatic affect that storytelling has on public speaking
* 5 things to consider before crafting your personal stories
* 5 steps to writing an engaging personal story
* How to use your stories in a speech
All in all, this course will give you the tools to develop great personal stories and the understanding of how to incorporate them into any speech.
Who this course is for
- Public speakers, teachers, business men/women, or anyone who wants tell better stories will benefit from this well-structured and action-ready course.
- This course is recommend for anyone who wants to engage the imagination of audiences both large and small.