Great speakers know how to tell a great story. On this episode, I'll give you the five key steps of storytelling that these great speakers know and use in every single speech that they deliver. (That's hat makes them great speakers!)

This is a continuation of the series we started a few weeks ago about your Presentation Skills Checklist. And over the last couple of weeks, we covered the first three items on that checklist, (1) how to know your audience better, (2) how to design a catchy title, and last week, we covered (3) how to create a presentation outline focused on what the audience wants.

This week, we're going to show you how to add great content to that presentation outline you created last week -- specifically through storytelling.

And, based on my decades of delivering presentation coaching to people from every industry on the face of the Earth, there is a good chance -- a really good chance -- that, right now, you are thinking...

"Oh, but we don't tell stories in out presentations." Or you may be thinking, "I don't think stories will work well for me." And, if you are thinking either of those things, then sadly, your presentations are likely confusing and uninteresting.

Let me give you an example. Think about a time where someone was explaining something new to you verbally, and the more the talked, the more lost you got.

For me, it happened last month here at my office. We bought a 3-D printer. And we followed the instructions to the letter over and over and over again. But every time we tried to sample print an object, the object disconnected from the plate and caused a big mess.

Luckily, my wife knows a teenager who does a lot of 3-D printing. When I told him about what was happening, he started giving me setting adjustments, tips, and a munch of other stuff. that just made the fix more confusing.
I stopped him and said, "Has this ever happened to you?"

He said, "Oh yeah, especially when I get a new printer."

I asked, "So, what did you do... Step-by-step."

And he just remembered what he did to fix his printer, and recited those steps back to me.

That recitation of what he did was a story. And it was way easier for me to follow. Incidentally, me tell you about my printer problem and how I fixed it was also a story.

On this episode, we're going to show you how to insert these pieces of evidence into your presentation in a way that makes you presentation more interesting and easier for the audience to understand.

The clip from The Hangover.

Show Notes: The 5 Steps of Storytelling – How to Tell a Great Story in a Presentation

(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/the-5-steps-of-storytelling-how-to-tell-a-great-story/)

A few weeks ago, I gave you my Presentation Skills Checklist. And over the last couple of weeks, we covered the first two items on that checklist, (1) how to know your audience better, and (2) how to design a catchy title.

On today's episode, I'm going to show you how to quickly and easily design your speech in a whole lot less time that what most people take to create a presentation. If you haven't listened to last week's session on how to create a catchy title, don't worry, I give a quick review at the start of this episode.

Once you go through the session, I put a link in the show notes to out Online Speech Creator. Just click the link and answer a few questions, and the website will create a fantastic speech outline for you.

Show Notes: How to Write a Speech in Just a Few Simple Steps

(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/how-to-write-a-speech-just-few-simple-steps/)

A couple of weeks ago, I gave you my Presentation Skills Checklist. And last week, we covered step one in that checklist which was know your audience. If you haven't had a chance to listen to that episode yet, the things I covered were essential in creating better presentations and reducing public speaking nervousness.

Most people design presentations by creating a long list of items they could cover. Then, they try to squeeze everything into a short timeframe. It almost never works.

So, last week, we showed you how to determine what your audience wants or needs from your presentation. If you understand that process, designing great presentations is much easier. And those presentations are also easier to deliver -- which reduces that nervousness as well.

On today's episode, I'm going to show you how to get your audience to want to pay attention to every word that you say before you even open your mouth. The absolute most important part of the presentation is the presentation title.

In fact, when you start with a great title, the presentation almost writes itself.

So today, I'm going to take you through our "Presentation Title Generator." The good news is that this process only has two simple steps. But when we show our class members how to do this in our classroom coaching sessions, they are always surprised at how dramatic the differences are in the presentations that they are able to create.

Show Notes: A Catchy Presentation Title Is the Start of a Great Presentation

(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/catchy-presentation-titles-are-the-start-of-a-great-presentation/)