
Influential Storytelling
Storytelling techniques & presentation skills to connect with your audience.
Class Description
Learn how to use stories to build an emotional connection to insights, ideas, and opportunities – and to sell your idea, bring data to life, and inform smart decisions. This course also covers visual and verbal presentation tricks to help your delivery pop – with a focus on impacting the 9-to-5 workday. You’ll get a unique chance to learn – and practice – telling stories that matter.
Learning Outcomes
Creative Critiquing
Principles to collaborate constructively to hone the right message
Stories + Influencing
Analysis of how people use stories to focus and find meaning
Crafting Great Stories
Frameworks for using storytelling to make a difference at work
Graphic Design 101
Design principles and tips you can use today to make awesome PowerPoint slides
Storytelling with Data
Tools to help your audience understand what the data means – and what they should do with it.
Online Class
Duration:
5 weeks
Effort:
3-4 hours per week
including a 2 hour class, once per week
Format:
5 online instructor-led cohort teaching/coaching sessions, and weekly self-paced online content and practice assignments
In-Person Workshop
Duration:
1.5 days
Effort:
12 hours
1 time
Format:
1 In-Person, instructor-led course
Rewards
Tell your connections the storytelling story! To help you highlight your new skills, you’ll receive the Influential Storyteller Certificate, which you can add to your resume or LinkedIn – and a good old (virtual) high five.
Certificate
High Five