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Leadership Communication through Story Telling

Today’s Leaders faced the challenges of achieving results and at the same time “rallying” the people around him together to “buy-in”, attaining those results and at the same time maintaining the relationships.

Leaders are always faced with diverse demands, from maintaining the Business Sustainability, to Customer Satisfaction, to motivating the diverse workforce (Different Generations /Ethnics /Cultures /Attitudes /Beliefs /Behaviours) and achieving the various Milestones/KPIs.

Leaders needs to be equipped with Powerful Communication Skills – Story Telling in order to Connect, Engage, Provide Meaning, and thus Influence those around him to achieve optimum results with minimum resources.

Objective

This 1-day course aims to provide Leaders with the following objectives:

1. Overview of Story Telling in Leadership
2. Purpose, Benefits, and Applications of Leaders employing Story Telling as a Communication Tool.
3. Context of Story Telling in Communication
4. Apply of Story Telling template into real case scenarios.
5. Practice Story Telling Exercise.

Outline

Introduction and Managing Expectations

What is Story Telling (Ancient examples since 30,000 years ago)

Why Story Telling (The psychological aspects of human brain in processing and storing data), from basic information to complex data in achieving “Wisdom” in Knowledge and Decision Making.

Benefits & Purpose

• Manage Knowledge
• Get Talent
• Make it Valuable!
• Create our Identity (Us Today – Our Future)
• Applicable to Change Management, Strategy, Culture, Values, Branding, and Visioning.

Context and Example of Story Telling (Strategy - Structure and Process – with related examples)
Strategy

• The Call
• The Context
• The Hero
• The Dragon
• The Journey
• The Outcome

Apply Story Telling Template into Change Management

• Individual Practice
• Group Exercise

Practices and Applications

• Story Telling
• Timeline Visualization and Crafting for Story Telling
• Key “Tips” in presenting a good story. (Verbal and Non-Verbal Ques)

Closing

• Summary
• Conclusion

Who should attend

For Leaders, Managers, PMET, Change Agents, HR practitioners, Team Leads, and those who needs to engage their Teams and Staff to obtain “buy-in” and commitment into achieving the initiatives.

Profile of David Ong

David has more than 30 years of Managing, Developing and Training Human Capital both local and regional countries.

His vast training experiences and travels make him a close Business Consultant with numerous corporations, partnering with them in their Organization Development in areas related to Values and Culture, Training Needs Analysis, Training Evaluation and Leadership Competency Model.

His niche areas are delivering Leadership Competency Related Programs; ie, Project Management, Change Management, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Creativity, Innovation, Negotiations, Diversity Management, Corporate Culture, Mindfulness, Team Enhancement, Communication, People Skills, Coaching and Human Behavioral Science(Psychology/Sociology).

His professional training development includes PDTD from STADA/Singapore, Training Design from Wagga Wagga/Australia and Training Methodologies from Canada.

He is also the Master Trainer with a few recognized institutions in conducting Train The Trainer programs in Training Delivery, Training Methodology, Training Design, OJT Structuring, Test Constructions and Presentation Skills.

His passion in Human Behavioral Science has seen him further study in the fields of Education-Adult Learning and Psychology-Behaviors.
He is also certified in numerous profiling tools namely;
- Whole Brain Thinking HBDI level 1, 2 and 3.
- TetraMap in Leadership profiling.
- The US FBI "Art of Profiling" and others.
- Global US Sandler Sales Master Trainer.
- Handwriting Analysis
- DISC
- MBTI
- NLP Practitioner
- Practitioner of Mindfulness

He also received the Singapore President Efficiency Medal.