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Be a Storyteller for Your Profession
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Be a Storyteller for Your Profession

Every profession needs a storyteller because stories humanize, simplify, and enliven complex ideas, making them relatable and memorable. Storytelling bridges gaps, fosters empathy, and drives change. As a professional, you can be a storyteller, turning experiences into narratives that inspire, educate, and influence. Harness your unique perspective and voice to shape your profession’s narrative and impact.

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Why do we HATE presentations BUT LOVE stories
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Why do we HATE presentations BUT LOVE stories

People hashtag#hate hashtag#presentations

but hashtag#love hashtag#stories and hashtag#storytellers

If you want to be a storyteller then

Tip No 1: The slides are NOT speaker notes. They are not meant for the audience either. You read that right. Learn how storytellers use slides.

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How to get others to support your ideas

How to get others to support your ideas

How do you get people to support your idea? Getting approval from the senior management is often about the language of you have used in the document or presentation. That's what experts say. When I speak about this, a lot of people believe that if the idea is good enough, it does not need selling. Several bright people look at selling an idea as the socially acceptable term for telling a lie. That is so not true. An idea - no matter how brilliant - has to be sold.

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Introduction to Storytelling by Pixar

Introduction to Storytelling by Pixar

I am a fan of Pixar's storytelling style. I don't know if you have ever read their famous 22 rules of storytelling? If you have not, you must. Some of the tips are really super useful to newbies like me who are fascinated enough by the magic to want to be a magician. But for now one has to be grateful that I am getting to read the magician's book of spells before he returns. I make a quick note of rule number 2 in the Book of Spells.

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Anything Normal Is Not A Story

Anything Normal Is Not A Story

How can you start to notice stories? Where do you need to go? What is the training that makes you a wonderful writer?

I would say it is the ability to observe the "truth" and then tell it well. Start listening to the stories in the lives of people. Tuck away the stories in your mind. Make notes and sketches.

Remember, what is normal is NOT a story.

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Building Org Cultures Through Storytelling
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Building Org Cultures Through Storytelling

THE Tale, the Parable, and the Fable are all common and popular modes of conveying instruction. The Tale is a story either founded on facts, or sometimes just a figment of imagination. There are no moral lessons expected to be learned. The Parable is intended to convey secret meanings. Fables are intended to impact human behavior through the stories and the characters. Good and bad characters are clearly demarcated. Aesops fables have become a part of our everyday language. The story of the thirsty crow dropping pebbles in a pitcher to raise up the level of water is one of the first lessons in innovation we learned. The moral of the story is explicitly stated at the end eg "Necessity is the mother of invention" in case of the Crow and the Pitcher story.

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