Stories for your next presentation
Ever made a presentation at the office where you’ve bombed?
I have.. many many times, and it is painful.
People ignore you, they nod-off, they start talking, or they pretend to have an important email they must check at that instant. It throws you off, and you shrink to a tiny size as the realisation dawns on you that you have 15 more slides to deliver.
There’s plenty of resources out there that guides on how to deliver better presentations: make eye content, address your audience, video tape yourself to practice, and on and on the advice goes. There’s one piece of advice that I have found especially useful though: lead with a story.
This single piece of advice has helped me to deliver better presentations, more memorable presentations, and more importantly has helped to hit home the key messages. However, finding the right story can be tough — it takes time to identify, verify, and also to focus the key message.
This is what this publication is all about. The goal is to have these presentation-ready stories collected here for you to reuse. Search for what you need, get the story, see the key points, and even have those important images readily available that you can have as a back drop in your slides.
I’ve been pulling presentations together in corporate settings for over a decade anywhere ranging from presentations about new IT systems, to launching new staff programs, all the way to introducing new procurement practices.
If you have a story you’d like to contribute and be part of the publication, please email me storybank2018@gmail.com!
