EY - Effective Storytelling (Lesson)

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Effective Storytelling

Introduction

Have you ever been with your friends, and there's that one friend who is always telling stories that are painful to listen to? They seem to be all over the place, and they take so long that you just zone out? Well, being able to tell an effective story requires some skill to captivate your audience whether while telling a friend a story, or if you are telling your story through film. Because you don’t want them to look at you like this:

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Explore

In addition, Nayomi Chibana in her article, “7 Storytelling Techniques used by TED Presenters,” shared some essential techniques that included:

  • Tell a Personal Story
  • Create Suspense
  • Bring Characters to Life
  • Show Don’t Tell
  • Build up to a STAR moment where:
    • S= Something
    • T= They’ll
    • A= Always
    • R=Remember
  • End with positive takeaway
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Review

 

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Watch the video below.

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