Delivering technical presentations
Account Management Presentation Skills
Inspiring, persuading and motivating using stories
As businesspeople, inspiring and motivating relevant stakeholders to undertake a course of action is key to building long and profitable commercial relationships.
Using corporate storytelling to inspire clients and colleagues, helps to create a common language and is a great way to set goals for the relationship. This course covers all areas of corporate storytelling including; crafting stories that inspire and delivering them as part of pitches and presentations.
What will you learn?
Upon completing this corporate storytelling course, attendees will have developed skills and understanding around:
- The role and importance of stories within presentations to them and the business.
- The different types of story, their strengths and weaknesses and how to apply them to achieve desired outcomes from your presentations.
- How to deliver a story in an engaging and compelling manner using your voice and body.
- Recognising good and bad use of storytelling in presentations delivered by others and how to give constructive feedback to help improve the storytelling skills of your peers.
Corporate Storytelling - Course Agenda
Getting started
- Warm-up and the complete history of public speaking in four minutes
The power of stories
- What stories do we tell and use in our own lives?
- What are our stories?
- When and why are stories a powerful tool?
Storytelling for business
- Exploring how stories are used to persuade, inspire and motivate
- Discovering three key types of stories and when to use them
- Experimenting with crafting stories using the three key types
Delivering outstanding stories
- What makes a good storyteller?
- How can we use our voice, body and delivery to embellish and deliver even more effective stories?
The 'learning by doing' bit
- Create and deliver a short presentation
- Evaluation and feedback from everyone - developing our skills by positively critiquing others
Discover more about your public speaking trainer
Rich Watts is a public speaking consultant and trainer, a past winner of the UK Business Speaker of the Year, a JCI UK Public Speaking Champion and most importantly, loves helping others to develop into outstanding public speakers.
What else is included within the Corporate Storytelling training?
Pre-session research with all participants
Ahead of developing your session, together we will complete a full research project to understand the needs, confidence and existing skills of all of your learners. Using online surveys, interviews and more we will get a full picture of the challenge and the goal.
Tailoring all course content to your goals
The research phase informs us about exactly the topics and techniques that our learners require. We then create unique training content and activities to help them develop these skills in the most engaging way. Every session that is developed will be packed full of examples, lessons and activities that are relevant to your sector and business.
Follow-up coaching for everyone
Learners always finish a training sessions engaged and inspired by session, but it’s easy to let new learnings slip once they are back at their desks. With this in mind, every participant is offered a 30 minute one-to-one presentation skills coaching session in the weeks and months that follow the initial training. This follow-up helps everyone to embed their new skills, ask questions and refine their technique after using their new learnings in the ‘real world’.
Video analysis of all participants
Everyone that takes part in a Rich Public Speaking training course is filmed delivering at least one presentation or speech. On the day they will receive feedback from their peers. After the session, they will receive feedback directly from Rich and a copy of their video. This feedback, and viewing themselves speak on camera is the most effective way to develop their presentation skills.
Access to a full library of resources and support
All learners will have access to all of the materials, worksheets and content from our sessions within the Rich Public Speaking online library. On top of this, they will also be able to export and download further infographics, videos and articles on all areas of public speaking everything from Persuasive Presentations to crafting Super Soundbites, and lots in-between!
Monthly learning emails
For those learners that like to read, absorb and consider ideas via their inbox, all participants receive a series of monthly emails after the course. Each email focuses on a. Different technique that we discovered during the initial session. The email provides a timely reminder about the topic, motivation to use it in practice and guidance on how use the technique effectively.
