Presentation training: Storydesign & Storytelling 4-days English

Storytelling is an important aspect of your leadership. Whether it's presenting your strategy to the management team, convincing your board or inspiring your team, it's all storytelling. Storytelling is a crucial skill because it makes you more influential. After all, strong stories are better understood, longer remembered and retold more often.

If you want to become a better storyteller and take your management by speech to a higher level, this training is the right choice for you. Seasoned presentation trainers with a background in film and theater will teach you in four days how to not only touch the mind, but also the heart of your listeners. This exciting training will affect three aspects of your leadership: you will know which stories to tell to convince, inspire and connect. After this training, you will have all the tools you need to tell the right story at the right time.

What are we going to do?

Day 1: Convincing Stories

Through the Storydesign methodology, you will learn how to effectively manage your team through your stories. How do you ensure that your strategy is not only understood, but also remembered and even passed on? In other words: how do you build a story that really cascades? A story that sticks and resonates?

• Prior to the training you will use our test to get feedback from your work environment. This will give you an impression of how others see you.

• You'll learn to apply the principles of Storydesign: quickly and effectively designing presentations for different audiences with different interests.

• Most decisions are made in our subconscious. After we choose on a subconscious level, we look for reasoning behind it on a conscious level. That's why we teach you how to hit the gut as well as the head of your audience.

• You will be introduced to insights from ancient times, as well as the latest scientific insights on influencing.

• You'll learn to make PowerPoint slides that comply with the laws of oral communication. This will prevent 'cognitive overload' in your audience and direct their attention precisely to what is important to you.

Day 2: Inspiring Stories

Sometimes your team knows exactly what to do but is struggling to execute. Your team is discouraged, for whatever reason. It is up to you as the leader to rekindle the fire. At this stage, it does not make sense to explain your strategy again, but it is important to tell your team stories that motivate and emotionalize. During this second day you will learn how to find, develop and tell inspiring stories.

• During this day you will learn how to use different types of stories to inspire: anecdotes, metaphors and analogies.

• We will show you a handy methodology to collect and elaborate the stories you want to use.

• You will discover the 10 Rules of Storytelling.

Day 3: Personal Stories

As a leader, you are judged on two characteristics. First, it is important that you look solid. Do you know what you are talking about? Are you in the lead? We don't follow leaders who seem shaky; the risk of not arriving safely is just too big. We also look to see if the leader can be trusted. Do you have good intentions? These two characteristics, competence and warmth, are crucial to your leadership.

• Prior to the training, you collect feedback from your team via our test. This will give you an impression of how you are perceived as a leader.

• You will learn the secrets of charisma using 'The Big Two' theory from social psychology: competence and warmth.

• You will receive an analysis of your personal charisma. This will bring both your pitfalls and opportunities as a leader into sharp focus.

• We will show you how you can create much more confidence and warmth through small adjustments.

• Using our Focus Method, you will learn how to come across as competent and warm without having to act.

• You'll practice intensively with connecting stories such as a welcome, a toast or a congratulations: small but crucial moments in your leadership.

Day 4: Executive Stories

Now that you know how to persuade, inspire and connect, it's time to expand your game. What if you don't want to influence your team but your board through a story? How do you convince executives who have little time and big interests? How do you grab their attention within a minute and a half and land your message effectively?

• During this day, you will learn how to design and tell strategic stories at the very highest level.

• Using realistic case studies, you will put together a powerful presentation in a short period of time.

• You will learn what you need to be a first-class storyteller in the boardroom as well.

• You will learn how to design, develop and execute an executive story with use of the simple but effective 5-minute methodology.

• You will discover how to interact surgically sharp and how to prepare effectively.

After this training

• You will know how to use Storytelling to strengthen your leadership
• You will have much more impact with the stories you tell
• You will effortlessly tell connecting, compelling and inspiring stories to all stakeholders

This training is suitable for participants who have experience in presenting and are expected to use their presentations strategically.