By: Lorna Barrow | 2010-08-14 | Public Speaking Please glue your speech content to a story, especially about a personal experience. This thing not only connects speakers with audiences but also makes speeches more interesting. Because it visualizes circumstances for audiences to understand complex information and feel the emotion. Therefore, this way of expressing keeps information in the heads of audiences. read more
By: James Leong | 2010-10-07 | Business As a presenter, it is important to capture and continue to engage the attention of your audience throughout your entire presentation. A very effective way of doing this is to use stories. Stories have the power of drawing people into your message... read more
By: Terri Rains | 2010-04-02 | Writing & Speaking When telling a story or writing a book, one of the best ways to prove your point is by using metaphor examples to illustrate your points. Many try to avoid this type of writing or speaking because they believe it is too casual to sound professional; however, in many cases metaphors are the perfect way to prove a point. read more
By: Arvee Robinson | 2011-03-12 | Presentation How many times have you heard a mediocre speech or one that was just downright boring? Is that the kind of speech you want to give? No! You want a speech that will set you up for success— a speech that’s got pizzazz. read more
By: Marc Adams | 2010-05-22 | Public Speaking If you want to be an exceptional speaker, and ignite your audience, you must learn the fine art of storytelling. Have you ever wanted your audience to be charmed by you or felt the desire to attract a crowd in the way you could move them to action? Nothing but a good story can capture and hold our attention and move us. If a good story meets a great storyteller, great thing can happened. Whe read more
By: Azim Uddin | 2011-08-12 | K-12 Education Contemporary approaches to moral development and moral education emphasize propositional thinking and verbal discussion of abstract moral dilemmas. Our life itself is a complete story that starts with birth and ends when our soul leaves our body. read more
By: Nancy Daniels | 2012-03-28 | Public Speaking When you give a speech or presentation, do you include stories or anecdotes in your material? If not, you should. Anecdotes and stories are not only interesting for your audience but they also lend credibility to you as a speaker; and, one of your goals as a speaker is to establish this reliability read more
By: Bob Johnson | 2010-02-26 | Recreation & Sports A native of Santa Ana, California, Matthew Leinart was born in May 1983. No stranger to the sport of football, Leinart was the quarterback of his Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana. read more
By: Lisa Bloom | 2010-09-29 | Self Improvement Where does storytelling come from and what role does it play in society, organizations, and people's lives today? A look at the inspirational power of storytelling as the oldest and greatest form of influence ever! read more
By: Terri Rains | 2010-04-02 | Public Speaking Anyone can stand up in front of an audience of people and read from a book, or recite a story from memory. While many people look at this and think it is real storytelling, nothing could be further from the truth. A real storyteller can take a take and create a mental movie in the mind of everyone within listening range. read more
By: André | 2012-03-07 | Advice Being a charismatic storyteller is a talent and skill that attracts and engages others and it is the ideal way to attract the opposite sex, land a job during the interview process, or entertain family and friends. read more
By: Vincent Ng | 2010-04-02 | Motivation Learn the four key elements that make up a great storytelling presentation. In a day and age where more and more people are using technology to assist in presentations, we are now exchanging data that very few people can remember. Using the power of story telling we are able to move people to action in the way that statistics never can. The four elements are perspective, details, emotions and conflict and resolution. read more
By: Stephanie Leibowitz | 2010-04-01 | Other communications Even though our society has written language and sophisticated technology to communicate with more people, more quickly and in different geographical places simultaneously, the purposes behind the stories remain the same. The stories are there to help us make sense of the world and our place in it, and to share it with those who, by necessity or invitation, are in our circle. read more
By: Alex Jenson | 2010-03-30 | Writing For any novice writers out there this is a fairly obvious statement, but it always helps to think your story through before you begin typing. That does not mean you need to have the whole thing worked out in advance because you have to allow yourself some room for spontaneity. In fact you could ask ten different writers about their approach and you will probably get ten different responses. read more
By: Barry Lycka | 2010-04-01 | Arts & Entertainment Everyone likes a good story. From the olden days when the elderly would gather children and tell of stories of the past, to the modern groups at libraries where authors of books read their stories, storytelling is a time honored tradition. What makes storytelling so exciting depends on the storyteller. If the storyteller is exciting and entertaining, then you can enjoy every minute of the story. The interesting part of storytelling is that most of the stories told are based on true events. This not only gives you an interesting story, it helps you learn something. read more