This document provides guidance on using stories effectively in presentations. It discusses how stories can capture attention and engage audiences. Stories should be carefully developed by considering elements like characters, plot, climax, and resolution. Stories should also be tailored to the specific audience and aligned with the overall purpose of the presentation. Following principles of storytelling like plausibility, believability, and truthfulness can help ensure stories are impactful. Stories are most powerful when they are genuinely and strategically incorporated into presentations.
Why This Story, Why This Story Now: The Art of Impactful StorytellingTechSoup
Slides from TechSoup's Lights, Camera, Take Action!
Today’s workshop with StoryCenter is called “Why This Story, Why This Story Now: The Art of Impactful Storytelling”
StoryCenter facilitators Rob and Allison will share approaches to helping individuals, communities and organizations uncover the stories that really matter - the stories that they want to share. Featuring creative breakout sessions and opportunities to share, you will practice the use of story prompts, discuss creative solutions, and explore tools to support self-expression, creative practice, and community building.
Telling Your Story to Motivate Donors and Advocates for Your CauseRachel Kubicki
This presentation focuses on the importance of great story telling and also provides step by step instructions for creating your story. Included you will find examples, quotes for inspiration, and more. This is intended for board members, nonprofit executives, fundraisers and volunteers. The goal is to equip you with a strong story that attracts and motivates others to engage with your nonprofit.
The document discusses the power and importance of storytelling. It notes that stories have the ability to influence people's thinking and change their behaviors. When we hear impactful stories, our brains can take on the thoughts and ideas presented in the story. Stories are how many historical events and cultural traditions have been passed down. The document also discusses how storytelling can be used as a marketing tool, with examples of how well-crafted stories can dramatically increase sales and engagement. It provides tips on how to craft stories effectively, including defining the core message, deciding on the type of story, establishing a call to action, and knowing the target audience.
Leadership Charlottesville Storytelling PresentationSuzanne Henry
This document discusses the importance of organizational storytelling for influencing others and communicating your message. It explains that everyone has a story to tell and distribution channels to share it. Effective stories transfer information from short-term to long-term memory by evoking emotion. The document provides guidance on defining your organization's story by discovering your origins and key messages, and delivering it through anecdotes, illustrations, and chosen communication channels. Organizational storytelling is seen as a way to paint a larger picture and context around your message through a beginning, middle and end narrative.
This document provides guidance on finding a documentary subject and developing documentary ideas. It discusses four tendencies of documentaries, including recording/revealing, persuading, expressing, and analyzing. Tips are given such as following your passion, finding a compelling character, making it personal, and asking questions. The document emphasizes choosing a topic you have unique access to and personal connection with, and avoiding subjects you don't have direct experience with. It also provides examples of successful documentaries and encourages filmmakers to trust their instincts and passion in choosing a subject.
Why This Story, Why This Story Now: The Art of Impactful StorytellingTechSoup
Slides from TechSoup's Lights, Camera, Take Action!
Today’s workshop with StoryCenter is called “Why This Story, Why This Story Now: The Art of Impactful Storytelling”
StoryCenter facilitators Rob and Allison will share approaches to helping individuals, communities and organizations uncover the stories that really matter - the stories that they want to share. Featuring creative breakout sessions and opportunities to share, you will practice the use of story prompts, discuss creative solutions, and explore tools to support self-expression, creative practice, and community building.
Telling Your Story to Motivate Donors and Advocates for Your CauseRachel Kubicki
This presentation focuses on the importance of great story telling and also provides step by step instructions for creating your story. Included you will find examples, quotes for inspiration, and more. This is intended for board members, nonprofit executives, fundraisers and volunteers. The goal is to equip you with a strong story that attracts and motivates others to engage with your nonprofit.
The document discusses the power and importance of storytelling. It notes that stories have the ability to influence people's thinking and change their behaviors. When we hear impactful stories, our brains can take on the thoughts and ideas presented in the story. Stories are how many historical events and cultural traditions have been passed down. The document also discusses how storytelling can be used as a marketing tool, with examples of how well-crafted stories can dramatically increase sales and engagement. It provides tips on how to craft stories effectively, including defining the core message, deciding on the type of story, establishing a call to action, and knowing the target audience.
Leadership Charlottesville Storytelling PresentationSuzanne Henry
This document discusses the importance of organizational storytelling for influencing others and communicating your message. It explains that everyone has a story to tell and distribution channels to share it. Effective stories transfer information from short-term to long-term memory by evoking emotion. The document provides guidance on defining your organization's story by discovering your origins and key messages, and delivering it through anecdotes, illustrations, and chosen communication channels. Organizational storytelling is seen as a way to paint a larger picture and context around your message through a beginning, middle and end narrative.
This document provides guidance on finding a documentary subject and developing documentary ideas. It discusses four tendencies of documentaries, including recording/revealing, persuading, expressing, and analyzing. Tips are given such as following your passion, finding a compelling character, making it personal, and asking questions. The document emphasizes choosing a topic you have unique access to and personal connection with, and avoiding subjects you don't have direct experience with. It also provides examples of successful documentaries and encourages filmmakers to trust their instincts and passion in choosing a subject.
This document provides guidance on how to tell powerful stories to create change as a citizen activist. It discusses choosing a personal story from a challenge you faced, sharing key details like what was at stake and the outcome. Telling stories in 3-5 minutes with sensory details can help audiences relate to your experience. The document also outlines a "public narrative structure" of sharing one's purpose, an awakening story, connecting values to a community's choices, and a call to action. Practicing and knowing one's audience are emphasized.
This document discusses the importance and power of storytelling for grassroots leadership. It provides an overview of storytelling techniques that can inspire audiences and spark action. The key points are:
1. Stories are more memorable than facts alone and appeal to how our brains are wired. Stories engage our entire brain in a way that simple explanations do not.
2. There are certain types of "springboard stories" that are particularly effective for leadership - ones that are true, positive, and minimalist in detail. These stories communicate complex ideas and encourage action.
3. The document offers criteria for crafting effective stories, such as being clear, focused, persuasive, and conversational. It also provides tips for delivery through
This document outlines an agenda for a fundraising copywriting workshop. The workshop will cover various tools used in fundraising copywriting over four sessions: the writer's toolbox, in action, tips from the best, and questions. The writer's toolbox session will discuss vocabulary, grammar, persuasion techniques, fundraising knowledge, and magic. The in action session will demonstrate writing for direct mail including envelopes, letters, response forms, and online fundraising. Tips from the best will share advice from authors like George Orwell and George Smith. Participants will have a chance to ask questions in the final session. The goal is to help participants become better fundraising copywriters.
There's a worrying trend out there in storytelling land. Too many non-profits either don’t have a case for support at all or have put a huge amount of effort and expense into creating one that, well... kinda sucks.
But cases for support are critically important to non-profit fundraising, and every non-profit should have one. No longer tied solely to capital campaigns, a strong case will pull your stakeholders together, touch people’s hearts, and elevate philanthropy.
And what's the most important element of an exceptionally effective case? The story that you weave into it. Stories are uniquely yours. They uniquely illustrate the problem and the solution. They are at the heart of everything you do.
Leah shares the secrets to case-specific storytelling, along with lots of really great examples.
Presented at the 2018 Nonprofit Storytelling Conference
ORGANIZING AND DELIVERING A PERSUASIVE SPEECH.pptxsherylduenas
This document provides guidance on organizing and delivering an effective persuasive speech. It discusses adapting a speech to different audience types, such as favorable, neutral, apathetic, or hostile audiences. It also covers the different types of appeals that can be used in a persuasive speech, including emotional appeals, establishing credibility or ethics, and using logical reasoning. Finally, it discusses qualities that make for an effective persuasive speech, such as having a clear goal and main point, using supporting evidence, engaging the audience, and appealing to both logic and emotion.
This document provides tips for communicating confidently and effectively with the media. It discusses how to prepare for a media interview by understanding the purpose and format, knowing your key message, and anticipating challenging questions. The document emphasizes keeping answers short, painting pictures with stories, staying calm, and never lying. Building relationships with media contacts is also recommended by sending story ideas and responding promptly. The overall message is to know your topic, know your audience, and know your goals for the interview.
Here are three stories I discovered in my community that I think are worth sharing:
1. I interviewed my neighbor Mrs. Johnson, who is a veteran of the Vietnam War. She shared her experiences of serving as a nurse and what it was like to return home from war.
2. I spoke with my friend Maria whose father passed away last year. She told me about the special bond she had with her dad and how her large, close-knit family has supported each other during this difficult time.
3. At the senior center, I met Bob, a retired teacher. He talked about his long career educating students and how teaching allowed him to make a difference in people's lives.
I think sharing
This document discusses using strengths-based approaches to build trust and connection within communities in Kenya. It involves three phases: (1) using a VIA assessment to identify individual strengths and build a shared language; (2) using interviews and reflection to strengthen relationships within teams; and (3) applying these approaches to empower marginalized groups through counseling, peacebuilding, and livelihood programs. The document provides details on conducting VIA assessments, strength spotting interviews, and reflective exercises to elevate individual strengths and connect them to increased well-being and trust within communities.
This detailed, "turn key," lesson plan on oral history interviewing techniques will empower students to connect to history, bringing it to life. It includes classroom slides, teacher notes, and educational resources for oral history projects in the classroom.
This document introduces social stories, which are short stories written in a specific style and format to provide social information to individuals with autism. Social stories describe social situations and events to increase understanding of perspectives and appropriate responses. They aim to explain social cues rather than change behavior. The document discusses how social stories are written from the individual's perspective in a positive tone using descriptive, perspective, and directive sentences. They should increase social understanding rather than dictate behavior.
This document discusses different types of speeches according to purpose and delivery. It identifies three types of speeches according to purpose: informative speeches which aim to inform, entertainment speeches which aim to entertain, and persuasive speeches which aim to persuade. It also identifies four types of speeches according to delivery: extemporaneous speeches which involve limited preparation using notes, impromptu speeches which are delivered without preparation, manuscript speeches which are read from a prepared text, and memorized speeches which are recited from memory. The document provides examples and tips for each type of speech to help speakers choose the best type for different situations.
Stories: Your Secret Weapon For Building a MovementListenInPictures
This document provides guidance on crafting compelling stories to inspire audiences and further a cause or mission. It discusses how stories can influence perspectives and motivate action. Key points:
1) Stories allow sharing of values and lessons to encourage audiences to pursue higher goals. By expressing one's worldview through stories, audiences may be persuaded.
2) When choosing stories, consider the audience and desired action or perspective shift. Stories should facilitate an "aha moment" for audiences to realize how they can take the desired action.
3) Effective stories follow a challenge, connection, or creativity plot structure and track a character's journey of change from problem to resolution. Stories show audiences what is possible through relatable experiences.
The document provides information for a mentor orientation session with their mentee. The goals of the first session are to build rapport and trust with the mentee, introduce the high school experience in America, and understand the mentee's goals. The mentor is instructed to introduce themselves, have the mentee do the same, and use icebreakers. They then discuss the mentee's goals and anxieties, offering guidance. Homework and scheduling the next meeting is also covered. Materials provided include an program overview, icebreakers, American pop culture resources, and goal setting exercises.
Dr. Rakhi Sawlani's document discusses using digital storytelling to teach science concepts. It explains the key elements of storytelling like plot, setting, characters, point of view, and theme. It then provides examples of 15 digital stories that were used to teach different science topics to students over 15 days. Assessment results indicated that the experimental group who learned through digital stories were more interested, motivated, and achieved better academic performance compared to traditional instruction. The document concludes that digital storytelling is an effective STEAM-based approach for teaching and learning science.
Lean in - WomenGroundBreakers: Harnessing the Power of StoriesDenise Reed
Jennifer Aaker is a behavioral psychologist and professor at Stanford who researches the power of storytelling. Stories are more memorable than facts alone and can be used to advocate ideas by weaving facts into narratives. A successful story has four elements - a goal, attention grabber, engaging main character and challenge, and a shareable experience. Speakers should tailor their story based on their listener's familiarity and how relatable they can make their topic.
The document provides guidance on making ideas stick through simple, memorable messaging. It discusses focusing on the core idea and compact delivery. Unexpected elements can grab attention if they surprise without losing the connection to the core. Concrete language uses specifics, names and examples to make abstract concepts tangible. Credibility comes from authority, testimonials and compelling details. Emotional appeals tap into what people care about. Stories engage audiences and help them visualize ideas.
This document provides guidance on using effective design and color in PowerPoint presentations. It recommends that colors have meaning and influence learning. Contrast is important, with blue or purple backgrounds and white text easy to read. While black and white works, adding some color can enhance graphic impact. Further research on how color influences people in different cultures is suggested.
This document presents 12 scenarios and asks the reader to provide an explanation for each without overthinking. It then provides potential explanations and scoring to evaluate how assumptions and biases may have influenced the reader's responses. The document aims to help the reader reflect on how stereotypes can shape explanations and assumptions, and how to overcome biases when interpreting observations.
This document provides guidance on how to tell powerful stories to create change as a citizen activist. It discusses choosing a personal story from a challenge you faced, sharing key details like what was at stake and the outcome. Telling stories in 3-5 minutes with sensory details can help audiences relate to your experience. The document also outlines a "public narrative structure" of sharing one's purpose, an awakening story, connecting values to a community's choices, and a call to action. Practicing and knowing one's audience are emphasized.
This document discusses the importance and power of storytelling for grassroots leadership. It provides an overview of storytelling techniques that can inspire audiences and spark action. The key points are:
1. Stories are more memorable than facts alone and appeal to how our brains are wired. Stories engage our entire brain in a way that simple explanations do not.
2. There are certain types of "springboard stories" that are particularly effective for leadership - ones that are true, positive, and minimalist in detail. These stories communicate complex ideas and encourage action.
3. The document offers criteria for crafting effective stories, such as being clear, focused, persuasive, and conversational. It also provides tips for delivery through
This document outlines an agenda for a fundraising copywriting workshop. The workshop will cover various tools used in fundraising copywriting over four sessions: the writer's toolbox, in action, tips from the best, and questions. The writer's toolbox session will discuss vocabulary, grammar, persuasion techniques, fundraising knowledge, and magic. The in action session will demonstrate writing for direct mail including envelopes, letters, response forms, and online fundraising. Tips from the best will share advice from authors like George Orwell and George Smith. Participants will have a chance to ask questions in the final session. The goal is to help participants become better fundraising copywriters.
There's a worrying trend out there in storytelling land. Too many non-profits either don’t have a case for support at all or have put a huge amount of effort and expense into creating one that, well... kinda sucks.
But cases for support are critically important to non-profit fundraising, and every non-profit should have one. No longer tied solely to capital campaigns, a strong case will pull your stakeholders together, touch people’s hearts, and elevate philanthropy.
And what's the most important element of an exceptionally effective case? The story that you weave into it. Stories are uniquely yours. They uniquely illustrate the problem and the solution. They are at the heart of everything you do.
Leah shares the secrets to case-specific storytelling, along with lots of really great examples.
Presented at the 2018 Nonprofit Storytelling Conference
ORGANIZING AND DELIVERING A PERSUASIVE SPEECH.pptxsherylduenas
This document provides guidance on organizing and delivering an effective persuasive speech. It discusses adapting a speech to different audience types, such as favorable, neutral, apathetic, or hostile audiences. It also covers the different types of appeals that can be used in a persuasive speech, including emotional appeals, establishing credibility or ethics, and using logical reasoning. Finally, it discusses qualities that make for an effective persuasive speech, such as having a clear goal and main point, using supporting evidence, engaging the audience, and appealing to both logic and emotion.
This document provides tips for communicating confidently and effectively with the media. It discusses how to prepare for a media interview by understanding the purpose and format, knowing your key message, and anticipating challenging questions. The document emphasizes keeping answers short, painting pictures with stories, staying calm, and never lying. Building relationships with media contacts is also recommended by sending story ideas and responding promptly. The overall message is to know your topic, know your audience, and know your goals for the interview.
Here are three stories I discovered in my community that I think are worth sharing:
1. I interviewed my neighbor Mrs. Johnson, who is a veteran of the Vietnam War. She shared her experiences of serving as a nurse and what it was like to return home from war.
2. I spoke with my friend Maria whose father passed away last year. She told me about the special bond she had with her dad and how her large, close-knit family has supported each other during this difficult time.
3. At the senior center, I met Bob, a retired teacher. He talked about his long career educating students and how teaching allowed him to make a difference in people's lives.
I think sharing
This document discusses using strengths-based approaches to build trust and connection within communities in Kenya. It involves three phases: (1) using a VIA assessment to identify individual strengths and build a shared language; (2) using interviews and reflection to strengthen relationships within teams; and (3) applying these approaches to empower marginalized groups through counseling, peacebuilding, and livelihood programs. The document provides details on conducting VIA assessments, strength spotting interviews, and reflective exercises to elevate individual strengths and connect them to increased well-being and trust within communities.
This detailed, "turn key," lesson plan on oral history interviewing techniques will empower students to connect to history, bringing it to life. It includes classroom slides, teacher notes, and educational resources for oral history projects in the classroom.
This document introduces social stories, which are short stories written in a specific style and format to provide social information to individuals with autism. Social stories describe social situations and events to increase understanding of perspectives and appropriate responses. They aim to explain social cues rather than change behavior. The document discusses how social stories are written from the individual's perspective in a positive tone using descriptive, perspective, and directive sentences. They should increase social understanding rather than dictate behavior.
This document discusses different types of speeches according to purpose and delivery. It identifies three types of speeches according to purpose: informative speeches which aim to inform, entertainment speeches which aim to entertain, and persuasive speeches which aim to persuade. It also identifies four types of speeches according to delivery: extemporaneous speeches which involve limited preparation using notes, impromptu speeches which are delivered without preparation, manuscript speeches which are read from a prepared text, and memorized speeches which are recited from memory. The document provides examples and tips for each type of speech to help speakers choose the best type for different situations.
Stories: Your Secret Weapon For Building a MovementListenInPictures
This document provides guidance on crafting compelling stories to inspire audiences and further a cause or mission. It discusses how stories can influence perspectives and motivate action. Key points:
1) Stories allow sharing of values and lessons to encourage audiences to pursue higher goals. By expressing one's worldview through stories, audiences may be persuaded.
2) When choosing stories, consider the audience and desired action or perspective shift. Stories should facilitate an "aha moment" for audiences to realize how they can take the desired action.
3) Effective stories follow a challenge, connection, or creativity plot structure and track a character's journey of change from problem to resolution. Stories show audiences what is possible through relatable experiences.
The document provides information for a mentor orientation session with their mentee. The goals of the first session are to build rapport and trust with the mentee, introduce the high school experience in America, and understand the mentee's goals. The mentor is instructed to introduce themselves, have the mentee do the same, and use icebreakers. They then discuss the mentee's goals and anxieties, offering guidance. Homework and scheduling the next meeting is also covered. Materials provided include an program overview, icebreakers, American pop culture resources, and goal setting exercises.
Dr. Rakhi Sawlani's document discusses using digital storytelling to teach science concepts. It explains the key elements of storytelling like plot, setting, characters, point of view, and theme. It then provides examples of 15 digital stories that were used to teach different science topics to students over 15 days. Assessment results indicated that the experimental group who learned through digital stories were more interested, motivated, and achieved better academic performance compared to traditional instruction. The document concludes that digital storytelling is an effective STEAM-based approach for teaching and learning science.
Lean in - WomenGroundBreakers: Harnessing the Power of StoriesDenise Reed
Jennifer Aaker is a behavioral psychologist and professor at Stanford who researches the power of storytelling. Stories are more memorable than facts alone and can be used to advocate ideas by weaving facts into narratives. A successful story has four elements - a goal, attention grabber, engaging main character and challenge, and a shareable experience. Speakers should tailor their story based on their listener's familiarity and how relatable they can make their topic.
The document provides guidance on making ideas stick through simple, memorable messaging. It discusses focusing on the core idea and compact delivery. Unexpected elements can grab attention if they surprise without losing the connection to the core. Concrete language uses specifics, names and examples to make abstract concepts tangible. Credibility comes from authority, testimonials and compelling details. Emotional appeals tap into what people care about. Stories engage audiences and help them visualize ideas.
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This document provides guidance on using effective design and color in PowerPoint presentations. It recommends that colors have meaning and influence learning. Contrast is important, with blue or purple backgrounds and white text easy to read. While black and white works, adding some color can enhance graphic impact. Further research on how color influences people in different cultures is suggested.
This document presents 12 scenarios and asks the reader to provide an explanation for each without overthinking. It then provides potential explanations and scoring to evaluate how assumptions and biases may have influenced the reader's responses. The document aims to help the reader reflect on how stereotypes can shape explanations and assumptions, and how to overcome biases when interpreting observations.
This document discusses how perception shapes reality and can create optical illusions. It contains several images showing ambiguous figures or lines of different lengths that appear the same. The text explains that our brains will perceive patterns even where they don't exist, and that we can see multiple interpretations of images once aware of the alternatives. It emphasizes that our own views are shaped by our unique experiences and lenses, so we must try to see things from other people's perspectives to have empathy, validate their experiences, and communicate effectively to avoid conflict.
This document summarizes key points about ethics and civility in interpersonal communication from Chapter 12. It discusses the significance of ethical principles in relationships, deception within relationships, and ways to improve ethical decision-making. The five ethical ideals established by the National Communication Association are respect, responsibility, integrity, fairness, and truthfulness. While deception can damage trust, it is not always unethical depending on factors like intent and consequences. Maintaining civility during disagreements and owning one's communication choices can strengthen relationships.
This chapter discusses relationship dynamics and development. It explains that positive relationships are important for well-being, and relationships vary in significance from strong to weak ties. Relationships have benefits and drawbacks, and are governed by both implicit and explicit rules. Relationships progress through stages from initial attraction to maintenance based on evaluating rewards versus costs. Managing self-disclosure and reducing uncertainty are important for developing relationships. Dialectical tensions around issues like connection and autonomy must also be effectively addressed to maintain healthy relationships.
This document summarizes key points about interpersonal conflict from Chapter 9 of the textbook. It defines interpersonal conflict as a perceived struggle between two or more relational partners that can be expressed openly or covertly. Common causes of conflict include change, incompatible values, scarce resources, and interdependence. Effective conflict management involves approaching it strategically, using solution-based communication focusing on potential solutions rather than past behaviors, understanding both perspectives, and following conflict resolution steps. Power dynamics also influence conflict as some seek control while others prefer less control. Compliance gaining strategies and understanding sources of power further impact how conflict is addressed.
This document summarizes key concepts around diversity and inclusion from Chapter 10. It defines culture and discusses how cultures exist within larger cultures. It also explains the processes of enculturation, acculturation, and how individuals navigate different cultural norms. Gender identity and expression are defined, alongside sexual orientation. The chapter notes potential differences in communication styles between genders. It stresses the importance of understanding and valuing diverse perspectives to avoid conflict. Techniques for embracing diversity include challenging stereotypes, expanding cultural knowledge, and getting to know people from different backgrounds.
This document summarizes key points from chapters 11 and 12 of a communication textbook. It discusses the nature of technology-mediated communication and challenges like less richness and phone snubbing. It also covers technology's addictive potential through dopamine loops. The document outlines the disinhibition effect online and both bright sides like self-disclosure and dark sides like sexting. It discusses using technology effectively and impacts on sleep from bedtime use. Finally, it covers ethics, deception, improving decision-making, and disagreeing civilly.
This document summarizes techniques for improving listening and responding skills from Chapter 4 of the textbook. It discusses the difference between hearing and listening, types of listening like selective and defensive listening, challenges like listening fatigue, and bias. It also provides strategies for active listening such as paraphrasing, mirroring others, practicing recall tests, and listening empathetically. The overall goal is to enhance understanding of others and ability to communicate effectively.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 3 of the textbook "It's Interpersonal". It discusses the following:
1. The perception process and how people selectively pay attention. Perception helps make sense of messages and understand how messages affect others.
2. Self-perception and how the messages people receive can influence their self-concept, self-esteem, and self-confidence. People manage impressions and try to save face.
3. Improving accuracy involves avoiding errors like only attributing behaviors internally and self-serving biases. Checking perceptions helps accuracy. Personality and considering external factors also impact accuracy.
This document summarizes the key elements and principles of interpersonal communication discussed in Chapter 2. It outlines the seven elements of interpersonal communication including sender, receiver, message, channel, feedback, context, noise, and frame of reference. It then discusses the eight principles of interpersonal communication systems like how they create culture, roles, rules, and norms. It also notes how interpersonal communication can be synchronous or asynchronous, irreversible and unrepeatable, have both content and relational meaning, and not always be intentional. The document concludes by providing seven strategies for improving interpersonal communication such as thinking before speaking, clarifying mixed messages, replacing lean channels with rich ones, seeking feedback, optimizing context, eliminating noise, and
This document summarizes key aspects of verbal and nonverbal communication discussed in chapters 5 and 6 of the textbook. It discusses the significance of language and how words can influence thoughts and feelings. It also outlines different types of nonverbal cues like body language, proximity to others, and paralanguage. The document provides tips for improving verbal communication, such as using concrete language, monitoring powerless speech, and employing the "sandwich" method of feedback to say something positive before and after delivering a message.
This document summarizes key points about emotional intelligence and expression from Chapter 7. It discusses emotional intelligence, empathy, emotional challenges like emotional labor and avoidance. It also covers irrational beliefs that can influence emotions, such as the need for approval or perfection. Strategies are provided for improving emotional expression, including identifying feelings, looking at situations differently, and focusing on what is within one's control. The influence of culture and gender on emotional expression is also addressed.
Nonverbal communication conveys over 50% of meaning in face-to-face interactions. It includes body language, facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, posture, touch, use of space, time management, and other visual cues. People send and interpret nonverbal signals differently depending on culture and personality. To improve nonverbal skills, one can practice mindfulness, seek feedback, clarify perceptions through respectful questions, enhance vocal qualities, and increase physical expressiveness. Nonverbal cues often reveal true feelings beneath surface messages.
Interpersonal communication involves purposefully exchanging messages with relational partners to satisfy needs, achieve goals, and have consequences. It is a skill that requires considering a partner's perspective through accommodation, having ethical conversations, and self-reflecting on interactions. Developing interpersonal communication competence allows people to build positive, meaningful relationships and experience benefits to their well-being. However, unresolved conflicts can negatively impact well-being.
1) The document discusses the importance of supporting material for presentations and provides guidance on evaluating and selecting credible sources. It defines different types of supporting materials like facts, statistics, testimony, and examples.
2) Guidelines are given for testing the validity, credibility, and recency of sources. Supporting materials should be from qualified sources and not taken out of context. Statistics must represent adequate samples and distinguish between means and medians.
3) Speakers are advised to document their sources both orally and in writing to enhance credibility and avoid plagiarism. A variety of supporting materials should be selected and varied within presentations.
This document provides guidance on accepting an award, with key points including expressing gratitude, praising the sponsoring organization, and potentially advocating for a related cause. It recommends considering the context of the award, knowing expectations, and being prepared to speak without notes. Speakers should emphasize the importance of the award and thank influential supporters while staying within time limits. The document offers tips for impromptu acceptance speeches and choosing an appropriate language style.
This document provides guidance on delivering eulogies. It begins by defining eulogies as tributes that praise the deceased and celebrate their lives. It then discusses key features of eulogies, including that they focus on the deceased and create a comforting experience for those in attendance. The document provides tips for giving a eulogy, such as considering the occasion, speaker, audience and purpose. It recommends organizing the eulogy chronologically or with stories, and providing an introduction and powerful ending. The document stresses celebrating the deceased's virtues and small truths, using inspiring language, and preparing a manuscript while allowing for emotion.
This document provides guidance on delivering effective welcome remarks when introducing a group to an organization or event. It emphasizes that welcome remarks should connect the audience to the sponsoring group in a brief but engaging manner focused on the audience's benefits rather than the speaker. The document outlines considering the rhetorical situation and linking the audience and organization. It also provides a three-part structure for organizing remarks, including introducing yourself and the sponsor, previewing highlights, and concluding by looking ahead to the next part of the event.
This document provides guidance on choosing an effective topic for a speech. It discusses considering the speaker's interests and abilities as well as the audience. The speaker should select a topic they are passionate about so the audience will also find it engaging. Some ways to brainstorm topics include thinking about interests, values, and issues the speaker cares about. The topic also needs to be narrow enough in scope to be covered adequately in a speech. Researching the topic early allows refining the focus. Audience analysis can help choose a topic they will be receptive to that is not too broad or controversial.
This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
Main Java[All of the Base Concepts}.docxadhitya5119
This is part 1 of my Java Learning Journey. This Contains Custom methods, classes, constructors, packages, multithreading , try- catch block, finally block and more.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Assessment and Planning in Educational technology.pptxKavitha Krishnan
In an education system, it is understood that assessment is only for the students, but on the other hand, the Assessment of teachers is also an important aspect of the education system that ensures teachers are providing high-quality instruction to students. The assessment process can be used to provide feedback and support for professional development, to inform decisions about teacher retention or promotion, or to evaluate teacher effectiveness for accountability purposes.
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2. Introduction
• Stories were among the earliest ways to share memorable
experiences and lessons about life
• Well-told stories capture our attention and have a huge impact on
our lives
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3. The Power of Stories
• Stories describe experiences in a way that triggers listeners to
imagine and/or believe them as real, helping them engage with
speakers and their messages
• Stories enhance your credibility when you tell them well and draw
meaningful lessons from them
• Storytelling can also reduce your speaking anxiety because stories
are relatively easy to remember, particularly when they’re drawn
from personal experiences
• Short anecdotes can clarify a key point, support a claim, or provide
an introduction and conclusion to your presentation
• Stories can and should reinforce your purpose
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4. You (1 of 2)
• The following table offers eleven suggestions to extract your
personal stories:
Your name What’s the story of your name? Were you named for someone? If so, what was their story? Does your
name have a special meaning in your own or another language? Does it reflect your ethnic background?
Have you changed your name? Why?
Your past Start by filling in the following blanks: When I was in ___________ , I ___________. For example, When I
was in kindergarten, I used to play tricks on my best friend. What happened? Why do you remember it so
vividly? What did you learn that may benefit an audience?
Your family’s
roots
Where does your family come from? How far back can you trace your lineage? Are there unique customs in
your family? What’s your family’s ethnic background? Is there someone famous, funny, notorious, or
eccentric in your family?
Your special
places
Is there a special place in your life? Perhaps a vacant lot where you played with childhood friends? A venue
where your family holds reunions? A view from a beloved mountaintop? The place you were married?
Your mentors Who has helped guide you through life’s challenges? Your parents, a teacher, a coach, a relative, a best
friend, a mentor? What did they do for you? What advice did they share? Can their counsel benefit others?
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5. You (2 of 2)
Your successes What have you done that makes you proud? Have you earned an award, helped people in need, done
the right thing in a crisis, or survived a tragedy? How can your story of success help other people?
Your failures What have you learned from a particular failure? How did failing make you feel? How did you overcome
it? What did you do to make sure it wouldn’t happen again? How can your story help other people?
Your values What are your deep-seated values? Do you value fairness, honesty, tradition, equality, and/or justice?
Do you value your family and friends, your country, your environment, or profession? There’s probably
a story about why you strongly value what you believe and do.
Your pivotal
moments
When did you know you were an adult? What did you learn from being laid off from a job? When did
you first truly understand love?
Your pet peeves What bothers you a lot? Bad customer service, a grade you didn’t deserve, name-calling? Why? What
happened?
Your special
knowledge
Do you know how ___________ was discovered? Do you know why the town of ___________ was
founded? Do you know that ___________ happened here one hundred years ago today?
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6. Your Audience, Other People, and the Occasion
Audience analysis enables you to find stories related to their
interests, beliefs, and values
• Consider someone you know whose story might illuminate the
subject of your presentation
• However, never use it to embarrass someone or divulge
private information, and make sure to get their permission
before you tell it.
Find something you’ve done, witnessed, known, or believed that is
relevant to the speaking occasion
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7. Storytelling Strategies
• A story told in a presentation must be carefully developed and
delivered
• The following strategies will help guide you through this process:
• Use a simple story line
• Limit the number of characters
• Connect with your listeners
• Make a point
• Tell it efficiently
• Create tension
• Make it personal
• Exaggerate effectively
• Remember the rule of three
• Practice for sense and rhythm
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8. Shaping Stories
• Good stories, no matter how short or simple, share similar
elements
• The beginning introduces a situation where someone has to
overcome an obstacle or solve a problem
• The middle explains what the characters did or didn’t do to
resolve the situation
• The end shows the resolution and, in some cases, offers a
meaningful lesson
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9. Story-Building Chart: Template (1 of 3)
Title
• Questions: What is the title of your story? Does the title capture the essence,
mood, or spirit of the story?
• Suggestion: Although you don’t have to share the title of a story with your
audience, it can help you focus on the PURPOSE of your presentation. A title
such as “The Big Bad Man in the Back of the Building” suggests a very different
story from one titled “The Happy Haven behind Our House.”
Background information
• Questions: Where and when does the story take place? What is going on? Did
anything important happen before the story begins?
• Suggestion: Use CONCRETE WORDS and VIVID LANGUAGE to set the time,
place, and occasion of the story.
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10. Story-Building Chart: Template (2 of 3)
Character development
• Questions: Who is in the story? What are their backgrounds and
relationships to one another? What do they look and sound like? How do
you want the audience to feel about them?
• Suggestion: Bring the characters to life with vivid descriptions and adapt
your VOCAL DELIVERY and PHYSICAL DELIVERY to make each
character distinct from one another.
Action or confl ict
• Questions: What is happening? What obstacles or challenges did the
characters face? What did they see, hear, feel, smell, or taste? How did
they react to what’s happening?
• Suggestion: Let the action build as you tell this part of the story.
High point (climax or punch line)
• Questions: What is the culminating event or moment of greatest
intensity? What is the turning point in the action? When does the
tension that’s been building reach its peak? What sentence makes the
story funny?
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11. Story-Building Chart: Template (3 of 3)
• Suggestion: All action should lead to a discovery, decision, or
outcome. Show the audience how the character has grown or has
responded to a situation or problem. If you don’t include a climax or
punch line, the story won’t make sense—so make sure it has one!
Conclusion and resolution
• Questions: How is the situation resolved? How do the important
characters respond to the climax?
• Suggestion: The conclusion pulls the strands of the story together.
Make sure you don’t leave the audience wondering about the fate of a
character. In some cases, a story doesn’t need a conclusion—the
climax or punch line may conclude it for you.
Central point
• Questions: Is there a lesson to be learned from the story? How does it
relate to the rest of your presentation?
• Suggestion: Like the title, make sure the central point of your story
supports the PURPOSE of your presentation. You don’t need to state
the central point. Just make sure you know what it is and that the
story reflects its message.
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12. Story-Building Chart: Example (1 of 2)
Title: The Three Little Pigs
Background information: Once upon a time, three little pigs set off to seek
their fortune.
Character development: Each little pig built a home. One was made of straw,
one was made of sticks, and one was made of bricks.
Action or conflict: Soon a wolf came along. He blew down the house made of
straw, so the first pig ran to the house of sticks. The wolf blew down the house of
sticks, so both pigs ran to the house of bricks. Then the wolf went to the house of
bricks and said, “Little pig, little pig, let me come in.” All three pigs responded:
“Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin.” So the wolf huffed and puffed but
couldn’t blow the house in.
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13. Story-Building Chart: Example (2 of 2)
High point (climax): The wolf was very angry. “I’m going to climb down your
chimney and eat all of you up,” he declared, laughing, “including your chinny
chin chins.” The pigs heard the wolf on the roof and hung a pot of water over a
blazing fi re. When the wolf jumped down the chimney, he landed in the pot of
boiling water. The pigs quickly put the cover on it, boiled up the wolf, and ate
him for dinner.
Conclusion and resolution: And the three pigs lived happily ever after.
Central point: The time and energy you use to prepare for trouble will help you
survive and flourish.
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14. Notable Speaker: Rita Pierson, Part 1
In 1972, Dr. Rita Pierson followed in the footsteps of
her grandparents and parents to become an educator.
For more than forty years, Pierson spent her
professional life being a champion for students,
teaching elementary school and junior high school as
well as special education.
She led numerous professional development
workshops on a variety of topics focused on under
resourced learners and early intervention strategies.
In May 2013, at a TED Talks Education event, Pierson
called on educators to be champions for their students.
Her inspirational talk has been viewed more than ten
million times.
Her family announced her sudden death in June 2013—
just weeks after her TED talk aired on PBS.
19. Why Stories Work
• Good stories follow accepted storytelling principles that sustain
the meaning and value of story truths
• Understanding these principles can help you make stories
work for you in a presentation
• The best stories have two essential qualities:
• Probability
• Fidelity
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20. Story Probability
• Story probability describes the formal features of a story, such
as the consistency of characters and their actions and asks if it is
plausible
• To assess a story’s probability, ask the following questions:
• Does the story make sense? Can I follow what’s happening? Do
I believe the plot?
• Do the characters behave in a consistent manner? Do I
wonder, “Why did they do that?” or “How could they do that
given everything else they’ve said and done?”
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21. Story Fidelity
• Story fidelity focuses on the story’s connection to the audience
and asks if the story is faithful to what they already know
• To assess a story’s fidelity, ask the following questions:
• Do the events in the story seem believable?
• Does the story reflect the storyteller’s values, beliefs, and
experiences?
• What about the beliefs, values, experiences of the audience?
• Does the story omit or distort any key facts or events?
• Does the story use logical arguments and patterns of
reasoning?
• Does the story create the impact that the storyteller wants? 21
22. Story Truths
• Story truths refer to accepted principles that underlie the
meaning and values in a story
FOUR TRUTHS OF
STORYTELLING
Truth to
Speaker
When you speak truthfully and share your genuine feelings in a story, you enhance your credibility. When
relevant, storytellers reveal their beliefs and values openly and honestly. Even if the story is fictional, a good
storyteller conveys the anger, embarrassment, sadness, fear, or joy experienced by their characters.
Truth to
Audience
Audience analysis should guide your storytelling. When you arouse audience expectations, make sure you
meet them. If you promise a thrilling story, you have to follow through. If you use humor, your audience
should laugh. Use personal pronouns such as we, you, and I to invite the audience to share the experience
and feelings you describe.
Truth to
Purpose
Be true to your purpose! What is your overall objective? Does the story express the values you believe in and
want others to adopt as their own? When a story is true to your purpose, you can invest more energy and
emotion into telling it—and you’ll be more successful at reaching your audience.
Truth to
Occasion
As with any good presentation, a good story is never told the same way twice. If your time is limited, you’ll
have to shorten your story. If the occasion is somber, you may tell a different story entirely. If the setting
calls for a louder voice, arrange the room so you are closer to your listeners, or practice so you can project.
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23. Conclusion
• Good stories are more than spur-of-the-moment recollections or
retellings of classic tales
• The best stories are meticulously crafted, truthful, and
strategically adapted to all elements of the rhetorical situation
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Annette Simmons, Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins (New York: AMACOM, 2007), 19
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What to Watch For
[0:00–1:30] Pierson begins her talk by saying “I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse, on the way to the schoolhouse, or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse.” Not only does this statement build her credibility, it describes the source of the stories she’ll use to achieve her purpose. Note her use of “we”
statements as a way to involve her audience: “And we know why kids drop out. We know why kids don’t learn.” The “we” statements also convey her unspoken message: “I’m talking to you! So listen up!”
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What to Watch For
[1:30–5:57] Pierson uses one- to two-minute stories both to organize her talk and to provide supporting material. All but the final story about her mother include dialogue. She also uses humor to capture and hold the audience’s attention. In some cases, it is a simple statement, such as “Tell a kid you’re sorry; they’ll be in shock.” In other cases, she uses self-effacing humor to show the audience that she is an ordinary, fallible human being—to show that even education experts get it wrong sometimes.
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What to Watch For
[6:12–7:35] Throughout the presentation, Pierson’s delivery personifies the talents of a skilled storyteller. She is expressive, confident, immediate, and a model of stage presence. She maintains consistent and direct eye contact while smiling at appropriate moments. Her body movements are fluid and natural, helping etablish her credibility and making her appear confident and relaxed. She effectively varies her volume, rate, pitch, and inflection to emphasize different parts of her message. When she tells the story of teaching a difficult class, her tone changes, her volume drops a bit, and she slows down her rate of speaking. In the opening and ending of her talk, her delivery communicates the urgency and seriousness of her message.
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What to Watch For
[7:14–7:43] Although she continues to share both amusing and consequential stories about students, she wraps up her speech by returning to the need for strong relationships between teachers and students. She calls out to her audience: “Every student deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them.” She then skillfully uses short, urgent questions and answers to conclude because she knows that her audience is now with her. “Is this job tough? You betcha. Oh God, you betcha. But it is not impossible. We can do this. We’re educators. We’re born to make a difference.”
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Peter Guber, “The Four Truths of the Story-teller,” Harvard Business Review, December 2007, https://hbr.org/2007/12/the-four-truths-of-the-storyteller