[CTQ Smartcast LIVE] How to make Storytelling a part of your FutureStack
What is storytelling? Why is it important to our future relevance? And how can we get better at it and use it to our advantage? Find out this and more in this CTQ Smartcast LIVE session with CTQ co-founder Harish Kumar and special guest & Story Rules founder Ravishankar Iyer.
What this discussion uncovered
Why storytelling isn’t just for the creative-types
Concrete examples of good storytelling using data
What comes first - the data or the narrative?
How to use storytelling for personal branding, presentations at work, long information-dense documents
How to spot and remember stories
Whether storytelling will be relevant even in 2030
Storytelling principles to remember
Practice grounds and tools for good storytelling
Ravishankar’s stories about his stories
Interesting questions from the audience
Navin: (a meta Q!)
How did you use storytelling concepts in this session?
Ramanand:
Do you try to build taste/exposure to different kinds of storytelling through fiction?
Inside corporate worlds, are there people/times where storytelling can be counterproductive? What do you caution your students about?
Shrikant:
Are there any criteria you use to spot a story? To segregate a story based on its 'impact' so to speak? (The question follows from the assumption that there are stories everywhere around us and that they play out in front of us, constantly.)
Manish:
Which storytelling track should one take with an experienced audience?
KEY TAKEAWAY: The 5 Cs of storytelling and the corresponding tools to have in your arsenal
Consume (content from Kindle, podcasts, blogs; save in Evernote)
Cerebrate (your mind!)
Confer (Toastmasters)
Create (PowerPoint, Excel)
Coach (Zoom, Thinkific, Teachable, ConvertKit)
Announcement: Winner of our #FridayChallenge
A fun quiz
1. A six-word-story that is said to have won Ernest Hemingway a wager of ten dollars?
2. Can you arrange the 12 steps of the Hero’s Journey in the correct order?
3. Written by a mathematician, which children’s book was loved by Queen Victoria but hated by the original illustrator?
>> Watch the Smartcast to check if you got the answers right!
Referenced in this session
Hero’s Journey (the steps and how to use it to tell your own life story)
[podcast] How I Built This (Guy Raz in conversation with Tim Ferriss)
[book] Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth
[books] by Malcolm Gladwell
[book] Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic (chart highlighting)
[free ebook by Ravishankar] 40 stories at 40
[free ebook by Ravishankar] The Hidden Structure Of Leadership Communication (Pyramid Principle)
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