TELL YOUR STORY

INSPIRE ACTION, RAISE FUNDS, ATTRACT THE RIGHT PEOPLE, HAVE MORE FUN

This program is for individuals and leaders in organizations and non-profits who need to present annual reports, appeal for funding, report back to stakeholders or attract the right people. How to tell your compelling story will help you tease out your organizational stories and learn to craft and present them to your audiences to inspire action and get you better results.

When you identify and tell new and compelling stories, it also has an impact on your organization - you sound a different drum and most often than not, your various audiences get your renewed sense of your clarity, focus and direction and respond in wonderful and unexpected ways.

During this program you will identify and let go of stories that drain and sap your organization's power, and replace them with stories that are true. You will crystallize and tap into the power of your own values and vision to capture your target audience's attention.

We will use collages, metaphors and your photographs to help you develop and commit to new stories that you and your staff are passionate about and you want your audiences to believe. The stories are clear links to your mission and values and an articulation of your critical success factors. Simply put, your stories will help your audiences to think and feel differently about your organization and your mission and take the appropriate action you want.

This compelling story-telling program will help you:
· Clarify your purpose and content needed for effective and compelling presentations
· Discover, repurpose and develop new organizational stories that you and your staff are passionate about
· Integrate these and your own stories to support your various presentations
· Use compelling photographs and visual aids to support your message
· Gain confidence as you practice presenting, refining and honing your stories to influence key stakeholders
· Use PowerPoint quickly and effectively
· Inspire action and get you better results by presenting your key messages clearly

About leadership engagement and stories
· Stories can help leaders become aware of cause and effect, of dysfunctional dances between
  divisions, departments, stakeholders, suppliers and customers
· Stories can strengthen organizational learning
· Stories challenge you to consider counterintuitive and less obvious ways to obtain higher leverage
  and get better results
· Stories contain the collective intelligence of the organization in the form of feedback, ideas,
  problems and solutions
· Stories help leaders to make meaning from the organizational homeostasis
· Stories help leaders gain insight and can help shape future strategy, based on feint signals from staff,
  customers and key stakeholders that exist in the organizational unconscious, in other words, below
  the organizational radar and official channels
· Because no single story is comprehensive enough to make an organization understandable,
  collaborative stories paint a more comprehensive picture of what’s really going on

Best audience
Executives, managers, leaders and frontline leaders
[1½, 2 or 3 days]

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