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Course
The Power of Storytelling - Learn the Key Skills to Successfully Engage Your Audience
Published by Pearson (July 15, 2024)
ISBN-13: 9780135341070
Product Information
To stand out in your career, you need to be able to tell—and sell—a story.
We all have stories to tell, but being able to take others along for the ride is the challenge to be overcome. Drawing on the power of the stories themselves, this course provides the means to take stories—your own or from other sources—and weave them into any situation, from a business case to a software user story.
You will learn how to identify which elements of your stories can become applicable in almost any setting and the importance of weaving a metaphor through a presentation. By the end of this course, you'll know how to determine when it's appropriate to move on to other topics in order to leave your audience wanting more.
Carl Pritchard, engaging speaker and journalist with over 40 years of experience telling stories, dives into the key skills you need to become an effective storyteller who can draw in your audience and get your point across—every time.
Course Introduction
The Story of Stories
Story Identification
Build Memorable Story Lines
The Unforgettable
Vocal Tone and Bringing it Home
Course Summary
Carl Pritchard is the principal and founder of Pritchard Management Associates. He is a recognized lecturer, author, researcher, voiceover artist, and instructor. As a trainer, he is the "fun guy" of project management and risk management, engaging audiences and sharing stories on topics from any of his eight textbooks. Carl served as lead author for the risk chapter in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), Fourth Edition. His work as an instructor has taken him worldwide, training for learning organizations, private clients, and Project Management Institute®. He served as US Correspondent for the UK PM magazine, Project Manager Today for 15 years, and was PMI Global's "Best of the Best" in project management for 2019, earning the Eric Jenett Award. During his media career, he served as news director at WASH-FM (Washington, DC), and hosted the station's most popular weekend talk show, Sunday Morning Magazine.