A live and interactive online course for leaders, people managers, and team members—designed to be low cost and yet high impact—to unlock mission-critical capabilities in everyday storytelling (from emails to elevator pitches) and narrative skills (from change stories to brand narratives) to bring people along the journey of change, innovation, and transformation with us.
KEY
BENEFITS FOR
PARTICIPANTS
The Key Benefits Of The Storytelling, Pitching & Narrative Skills Course
- Learn how to bring people along the journey of change, innovation, and transformation through storytelling
- Discover story scripts and structures that engage, inspire, and make change happen
- Learn how to craft better emails, elevator pitches, change stories, and brand stories (personal or business brands)
- Understand the crucial role of empathy, emotionality, vulnerability, and connection in influencing others
- Improve storytelling and narrative skills by understanding the science of story
KEY
BENEFITS FOR
BUYERS
Benefits of This Course For Buyers—HR Business Partners, L&D Managers, Line Managers
- Designed to maximize the unique capabilities of live online training
- Optimized for hybrid and dispersed teams, international operations, and cost/travel constraints
- Quick and painless set-up for rapid implementation
- Low time burden for both HR managers and participants
- Highly interactive live sessions to maximize engagement and self-improvement
- Peer-to-peer and small group circles to unlock much-desired interpersonal connection and togetherness
- Easy-to-follow sessions with a balanced mix of accessible science, essential ideas, sticky concepts, practical tips
- Seasoned facilitators who can "hold space" for concrete individual and collective mindset and behavior change
- Unlimited numbers of participants for low-cost scale
- Proprietary, print-at-home take-away tools for sustained impact "in the flow of work"
- Branded online dashboard for easy and ongoing access to slides and materials
- Session videos are edited and put onto your learner dashboard for participants that are unable to attend live sessions
- Animated cohort learning community (via messaging app) to spark excitement, integration, and meaningful action
CORE
LEARNING
CONTENT
The Storytelling, Pitching & Narrative Skills Course Content
- The science of storytelling and the impact of narrative on the brain & nervous system
- The two modes and how they impact inspiration, engagement, and persuasion
- The blueprint structure of all engaging and persuading stories
- Why context is crucial in the attention economy
- The importance of emotional connection before facts and reason
- How stories drive change and action: from emails to elevator pitches
- How to structure stories for driving desired outcomes, changing minds, pitching ideas/innovations, and signally brand and business transformation
PROPRIETARY
INTERACTIVE
SOL
TOOLS
Interactive Takeaway Tools Provided On The Storytelling, Pitching & Narrative Skills Course
REPEATABLE
SOL
LEADERSHIP
PRACTICES
Leadership Practices Learned On The Storytelling, Pitching & Narrative Skills Course
- Preparing to speak, create, or craft stories
- Empathy mapping (getting into the hearts and minds of others)
- Connecting with an audience emotionally
- Being vulnerable yet strong when storytelling
COURSE
DESIGN &
STRUCTURE
Storytelling, Pitching & Narrative Skills Course Design Overview
- 4 x 2-hour live virtual sessions
- License for each participant to use and own the Storytelling Suite
- Sessions every 2-4 weeks (avoiding vacation periods)
- 1 timezone, or 2 timezones if a global team
- Online company-branded dashboard
- Cohort activation (via messaging app)
ONLINE SESSION
DESIGN &
STRUCTURE
Storytelling, Pitching & Narrative Skills Course Session Design
- Check-in and group presence and settling practice
- Reflection and progress reports
- Peer-to-peer coaching session
- Breakouts for group reflection and integration
- Q&A/clinic
- Mission setting & check out
“I left like I’d just been called to serve in the army. Motivated, inspired, provoked, and challenged.”
People Manager, International Bank
High Impact Yet Low Cost: What Makes Our Training Courses Different
Each course is centered around one or more of our scaleable 1-page transformation tools and/or self-managed or peer-powered toolkits, which unlock remarkable interactivity and accountability.
The tools are reusable, and the course costs include a lifetime license for each participant.
All our courses are hosted and guided live by an experienced facilitator to ensure engagement, accountability, and much-appreciated interconnectivity between participants.
Low Time Burden.
Low Cost.
Easy To Implement.
Quick To Start.
100% Virtual.
100% Live.
100% Interactive.
100% Empowering.
Designed For
Hybrid Working.
Dispersed Teams.
Budget / Travel Constraints.
Drive Outsized
Engagement.
Connectivity.
Growth.
Ownership.
Accessible Science.
Essential Ideas.
Sticky Concepts.
Practical Tips.
Take Away Tools.
Change Mindsets, Habits & Behaviors "In The Flow Of Work"
“Changed mindsets and behaviors across the business in critical areas of creativity, empowerment, and collaboration.”
Global HR Director, Unilever
Our Experience In Training, Learning & Development
100,000+ people developed
220+ leadership development programs
150+ learning & development courses
100+ takeaway tools
10+ leadership toolkits
“Amazing, amazing feedback from our leaders!”
Global HR Director, Intel
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