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Be a Storyteller Like Ted Talk

Stories capture our attention, communicate meaning, and change people's behaviour. Today, the most effective presenters and personalities use storytelling whenever they speak. If you wish to become as effective and influential each time you open your mouth, you must start learning how to tell stories. If you enjoy TED Talks or aspire to speak at a TED Talk one day, you will see almost all the presenters usestorytelling. This one-day workshop explains how to use storytelling every time you need to speak. Once you adopt the habit of using storytelling in ALL your communication, you will become an effective and influential communicator and leader. Storytelling is no longer a nice-to-have in today’s highly visual and digital world; if you cannot tell stories, you will lose out.

Objective

Upon completing this training, participants will:
• Understand what is meant by storytelling in communication
• Learn how to turn any topic into a story
• Learn good presentation habits from the rules of TED Talk
• Learn the SPEC process of storytelling
• Make good first impressions each time they speak

Outline

Know what storytelling is
• Learn the various methods available to tell stories
• Compare the effectiveness of story and non-story

Understand TED Talk rules
• Understand the rules for TED Talk to learn what is important for great speeches
• Learn how to plan a compelling talk/presentation

Learn from the best
• Study and learn from great TED Talk presenters

Who should attend

• People in leadership roles
• People who sell
• People who need to influence stakeholders
• People who communicate/talk regularly

Methodology

Plenty of class exercises and practice after each lesson learnt. Participants will be recorded (video) so they learn from their own mistakes. Plenty of ideas will be generated from each training that ill be relevant for the unique mix of participants. Every training session will be unique and different.

Profile of Joseph Wong

Corporate Storyteller

Joseph spent 36 years at Standard Chartered Bank managing traditional and innovative banking spanning Retail, Wholesale, Commercial banking, Marketing, Business Re-engineering, ISO9001 accreditation, Process Management, Sales Management, Communication, Micro-learning not just in Singapore but globally.

When he left his banking career in 2015, he was Director of the Wholesale Banking Proposal Management team that responded to Requests for Proposals (RFPs) in Cash Management, Trade Management and Securities Services businesses and developing training programmes in Digital Learning. He planned, designed and created bite-sized (micro) learning to complement classroom learning on sales effectiveness, business writing, storytelling, the art of asking why, and creating powerful presentations which are still being used by employees at Standard Chartered Bank globally.

Joseph is now a Communications and Leadership coach and is one of only a handful of Phonetics coaches in Singapore who has delivered close to 400 Phonetics training publicly since 1985. He also developed more exhaustive and far-reaching communications programmes such as Corporate Storytelling, Reasoning Skills for Children and is currently the anchor coach in a WSQ-certified Phonics and Phonetics course in Early Childhood Intervention for Pre-School teachers under Chelsea Academia. Joseph is also the author of two books - I’m So Ready For Life, that helps children hone their critical and creative thinking, and The Three Monsters that Destroy Your Career, a must-have set of qualities and expectations for graduates starting on their first job.

Today, his focus on leadership and business communication helps individuals and organisations improve their communication, selling and leadership skills. He co-developed a sales app called Delapitch and launched it at the 2022 Singapore Business Show in September 2022, under a selling philosophy FOSTER Method that he developed. He has delivered lectures and training programmes to local and regional participants, both work teams and executive levels since 2015. He is both ACTA and TESOL certified.