Tell A Story You Believe!
Posted on | November 10, 2009 | 1 Comment
I spend a good portion of my week walking students through the art of storytelling.
Today my storytelling lessons are increasingly in the guise of public speaking, something that +/- 90% of those who do it do poorly.
What makes a good story/presentation?
10% content and 90% show! I
It is the show that near all get wrong, the words alone are just letters.
But what is even more important about a great story, an excellent story, is that you, the person delivering it believes it!
If you do not buy into what you are saying how can you expect others to buy in?
Have you seen the Oprah Speech to the 2008 Stanford Graduation?
There are flaws in the delivery BUT Oprah believes what she is saying and that makes it work.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpd3raj8xww[/youtube]
If you listen to Oprah’s speech you get a valuable lesson in the organization of your own ideas and the SIMPLE truth that you NEED to believe in what you say for it to work.
The second take-home from this presentation are the 3 lessons!
Tags: james > lessons > life > oprah > piecowye > public > speaking > speech > stanford
Comments
One Response to “Tell A Story You Believe!”
Leave a Reply
Contact James
James on DubaiEye
Education Factory Podcast
Share JamesEd
Useful Web Links
Archives
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
Jamesed.com by James Piecowye is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.
Based on a work at www.jamesed.com.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.jamesed.com.
November 10th, 2009 @ 11:33 am
Couldn’t agree with you more.
Storytelling is the single most powerful way to get your message across.
Your audience might also be interested in another commencement speech. This one by J.K. Rowling (this is the link to part two of three):
http://www.amazingwomenrock.com/food-for-thought/j.k.-rowling-part-2.html
Links to the first and second parts are also on the page.
In my view, both Winfrey and Rowling would have been more powerful without notes… Reading almost always weakens delivery.