Advanced Public Speaking for Profit: Mastering Storytelling

Become A Better Storyteller To Help You Reach Your Career Goals Faster Than Any Other Skill You Could Acquire.

Created by: Doug Stevenson
Founder & President of Story Theater International

What Will I Learn?

• Discover the difference between traditional storytelling and the Story Theater Method.
• Learn keynote structure and how to determine the number and length of stories that go into a keynote speech.
• Discover a formula for audience engagement that works with all sizes and types of audiences.
• Identify personal and third-party stories that can be used in a business or professional context.
• Discover The Nine Steps of Story Structure and why it’s important to craft your stories.
• Explore a variety of story-types: Instructional, Profile, Crucible, Credibility, Imbroglio, Success Stories, Vignettes and more.
• Discover how to make the point of your story in a concise and memorable way.
• Discover why it is necessary to add thoughts and feelings to your story script.
• Discover how to use “self-talk” to reveal your thought process.
• Understand the difference between embellishing minor details in a story to make it funnier or easier to follow, versus outright lying about what happened.
• Discover the concept of branding the lesson or point of your story using a Phrase That Pays.
• Discover presentation techniques and philosophies to take your story to the next level of engagement, and effectiveness.
• Make your stories like motion pictures by adding movement and staging to your narrative.
• Re-create three-dimensional environments and then let the actions and activities of your story take place in those environments.
• Portray telephone and two-character conversations in a performed story.
• Explore the technique called “See It, Feel It, Tell It”.
• Use silence to make your story more powerful, and to give your audience more time to participate in your story.
• Portray different characters in your story with slight physical changes
• Get more laughs using proven comedy techniques and principles.
• Rehearse & memorize a story or any written material.
• Maintain power and focus while speaking to any audience, by developing non-codependent speaking.
• Discover the role that self-esteem plays in being a powerful public speaker and storyteller.
• Learn the principle of emotional distance in storytelling and how to manage tender emotions.
• Say less in your stories, by simply letting your behavior say it for you.
• Understand the difference between using a logical argument to influence someone, versus telling a powerful story that leads them to a new awareness.

Requirements

• All you need is an Internet connection and an open mind and willingness to learn.

Target audience

• Those who want to use stories more effectively to captivate audiences and make more money
• Those who want to turn one powerful story into a million dollar public speaking, training and consulting business
• Those who want to become a better storyteller to reach your career goals faster than any other skill you could acquire
• Those who want to go from public speaking for free to charging high fees