Storytelling for Engaging Presentation

1 day In-person Next: 8 Jan 2027 Zh-yue Identifier: 202051644

Course Overview

What you'll learn

Storytelling is your most powerful means of communication. It connected people. The most successful presenters are storytellers, by mastering business storytelling skills to achieve business results.

After a presentation, 63% of audience remembers stories but ONLY 5% remember statistics (Source: Authors Chip & Dan Heath). Stories work and stories have value because they help audience understand the facts and raw data with business meaning. Stories are how we best learn and visualize information, simplify and clarify even the most complex information. We can hook an audience with emotion. What’s more, stories help people remember what they have heard.

OBJECTIVES

  • Build engagement and inspire people to take action
  • Master storytelling techniques in business presentation
  • Understand your audience and match your stories relevant to their experience and interests
  • Apply emotional power to the stories by eye focus, voice, posture and gestures to have a much better chance of resonating with the listeners
  • Master the art as a good communicator to incorporate storytelling seamlessly into “best and natural style”

PROFESSIONAL TRAINER

Mr. Kim Lam

  • Over 20 years of experience in the field of Sales, Training and Consultancy services
  • Designed and delivered well-received personal effectiveness and leadership programs, including Effective Communication, Customer Services, Professional Image, Business Etiquette and Presentation Skills for Retail, Manufacturing, Telecommunication, Information Technology and Hospitality Sectors in Hong Kong and the Mainland China
  • Certified Professional Image Consultant and Executive Coach
  • Guest Speaker for Professional Organizations and Tertiary Education Institutions
  • Member of International Association of Professional Image Consultant

(SGS Hong Kong Ltd. reserves the right of final tutor arrangement)

Who This Course Is For

Sales, Customer Services, Frontline and client facing professionals who need to communicate with internal and external customers.

About this course

COURSE OUTLINE

1. Stories in presentations bring to life abstract data

  • How to enable listeners to better hear, understand and remember what you say
  • Make sweet reason has its place

2. The art of good storyteller

  • Plain (Keep it simple)
  • Light (Make sure your story is appropriate to your audience)
  • Obvious (Be clear and focused)
  • Tight (Keep it short)

3. How to give your story a heart

  • Create and satisfy desire
  • Make it memorable
  • Be conversational
  • Respect your listeners

4. 8 classic storytelling techniques for presentations

  • Monomyth (hero’s journey)
  • The mountain
  • Nested loops
  • Sparkline
  • In medias res
  • Converging ideas
  • False start
  • Petal Structure

5. How to make your customer the hero

  • What is your hero’s power?
  • How did your hero become ‘super’?
  • What threatens your hero?
  • What drives your hero to do well?

6. The power of storytelling

  • Telling your stories helps you to express what makes you different in the workplace

WORKSHOP FORMAT:

  • Lecture
  • Discussion and reflection
  • Role plays
  • Practice and feedback

CERTIFICATION (Attendance: 100%)
Delegates who successfully completed the course will be issued a certificate by SGS Hong Kong Limited.

GENERAL INFORMATION
Venue: T.S.T. / Wan Chai / Sheung Wan Training Centre / HKSTP/ TBC
Medium: Cantonese supplemented with English materials

* Early Bird Price will be offered to participant whose enrolment is made one month prior to the course or online booking

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