Storytelling Presentations

“Anjali, I am presenting to my team next week, can I go through the presentation with you?” A client asks. Next thing, we are on a Zoom call going through her presentation. Here is how she takes me through the sleek powerpoint her corp comms team has put together. ” I will start with telling them, what I will cover in the…

This blog is part 2 of 2 of our blog series titled, A presentation without segues is not a story. If you have not read part 1 of 2, read it here. Segue lines. Segue lines or transition lines connect the slides in such a way that when we listen to a presenter, we feel like a story is being told and…

September 2012, ” Anjali the Creative Director is sick and we have to present the pitch to the client today, as a Business Director you will now have to lead the creative section too! “ Along with 3 other team members I enter the boardroom for a pitch presentation, I am comfortable with 75% of the presentation because it is my space…

Presenting is marketing because what are presentations for? To promote or sell an idea, product or service? The primary goal of the presenter is to sell an idea to the audience, and the best, most effective way to do that is through telling stories. Here are 3 simple questions you can ask yourself when crafting compelling story led presentations. 1. What’s the…

Most likely you will start your presentation with introducing yourself. You do it because it is polite to do so. Or because that is what you have seen everyone else practice. If that is how you have started, you have just wasted the most precious time. Why?  Think about this, if someone has decided to listen to you present, there is a…

Learning from a workshop is not a framework and methodology hoarding exercise. For all my Strategic Storytelling Workshops I suggest tailored content to the key client contact beforehand. I make these suggestions based on audience profiling that I do prior to the workshop. Almost always, my key contact asks me, “Can we cover more content?” For them, the rationale is, it takes…

A speaker is often asked, “Can I have your powerpoint presentation slides?” I speak on Storytelling at least once a month and I am yet to come across a time when I was not asked, “Can I have your Power Point Presentation Slides?” What is my response? “My slides are pictures with a few words on it. They have no meaning without…