"This was an excellent course. Very useful tips and easy to remember. I will definitely be changing the way I do presentations going forward"
Storytelling
Long before humans could write, great communicators told stories. Their stories shared vision, sparked motivation, imparted wisdom, and influenced behaviour. Campfires gave way to boardrooms, but great communicators still tell stories.
Exceptional communicators skilfully weave words, phrases, and imagery in meetings, presentations, and everyday conversations. They inspire, inform, and bring about change. This course will allow you to do all of that.
Whether you are a data scientist trying to help your stakeholders understand complex trends, or a leader trying to ensure your team buy in to your vision, storytelling is an essential skill.
Course Overview
Using experienced trainers who are expert communicators, and therefore expert storytellers, we ensure that you learn the practical skills of storytelling.
The Communications Clinic’s storytelling course is based on learning by doing.
Our experiential training model ensures behavioural, not just attitudinal change.
We record you and play back. We let you see what you’re doing well and how you can strengthen your storytelling. Then we record again and you can see the difference and embed the learning.
You’ll leave with expert guidance to refine your storytelling skills, ensuring your points resonate and leave a lasting impression.
Our training model doesn’t leave people with fancy words for things they still can’t do. It changes behaviours and gets real results.
This training can be offered as a half day or a full day. Or it can be split across two half days to allow participants work on their feedback and return to deliver again and further develop.
The key thing is that it’s not “off the peg.” It’s devised and structured for you, your business, your budget and your objectives.
Great communicators tell memorable and understandable stories. Their words resonate long after: helping listeners remember key concepts, process information, understand complex details and make sense of disparate points.
Our Storytelling course is designed to unlock your potential to craft compelling narratives, deliver stories confidently, and leverage storytelling techniques to achieve your objectives without PowerPoint, slides or visual aids.
You’ll come with a story read to tell. One that is designed to achieve a key objective.
Then you’ll tell it – and be recorded, assessed and given the knowledge to improve.
You’ll learn how to make a story vivid, specific and therefore memorable, how to structure a story so that it’s easy to follow and understand, plus how to deliver in a natural, authentic and interesting way.
This course can also be run with a group of senior individuals, working together to enhance their leadership communication. It's a course that is particualrly useful for senior leaders or technical experts who are seeking to communicate the complex.
Whether your group wishes to enhance their communication skills, drive organizational change, or inspire others to act this course enables them to become a masterful storyteller and therefore a more impactful leader.
At the end of the group course, you are your people will be able to:
Confidently tell stories that meet your audience’s needs and deliver your leadership objectives.
Understand how storytelling has shaped human communication, empowering leaders to inspire unity, convey values, and change behaviours.
Craft stories with impact, captivating your listeners and creating lasting connections that inform, motivate and drive change.
Know how to connect details, evidence and illustrations to your points to ensure credibility.
Integrate storytelling into a broad range of formal and informal contexts.
By the end of this programme, you will:
Know how to use this storytelling capacity to help achieve your own leadership objectives and goals
Be able to deliver stories in a natural and impactful manner that takes full advantage of your naturally confident body language
Confidently tell stories that meet your audience’s needs and deliver your leadership objectives
Understand how storytelling has shaped human communication, empowering leaders to inspire unity, convey values, and impart timeless wisdom
Craft stories with impact, captivating your listeners and creating lasting connections that inform, motivate and drive change
Know how to connect details, evidence and illustrations to your points to ensure credibility
Integrate storytelling in a broad range of formal and informal leadership contexts.
What people say about us
We work with some of the biggest organizations in Ireland. We’ve helped multinationals and global brands. And we've also helped thousands of individuals.
Frequently asked questions
Is this course right for me?
If you want to be a better communicator- then yes it is.
If you want to be able to communicate the complex, simply and clearly - then yes it is.
If you want to be able motivate, inform, persuade and influence – then yes, is it.
If you want to be tested and challenged to really improve - then yes, it is.
It doesn’t matter if you are looking for training for a group of experienced leaders who want to hone new methods to reach their teams or stakeholders or if you’re a new technica expert looking to deliver on your potential - we’ll design the course to match your need.
What is the learning experience like?
Practical. Challenging. Honest. Fun.
We don’t just do extensive theory; we focus on real personal development.
The only way to improve your capacity to tell a productive, authentic story is to prepare one and deliver it.
And then be assessed. That’s what we’ll do. Every participant delivers a story. That’s recorded. They are then challenged to assess themselves in detail, working out for themselves where they can improve.
Can we tailor this to my team?
Yes. All of our courses are tailored to your specific needs.
We’ll work with you to establish your specific learning objectives, your own leadership approach and the complexities that are unique to your own context.
I’m still not sure if this course is for me?
Why don’t you talk to one of our trainers?
Let us know what specific arena you need to excel in, and we can design a training programme to make it happen.
Can you run this training remotely?
Yes. All of our training programmes can work as effectively delivered on any online platform.
We have adapted our offering to fully replicate the experience online. Working remotely, we can still record your input, play it back live and assess it together. And then give you a clear road map to improvement.
Can you deliver training around the country?
Yes. We have trainers based right across Ireland. And all of our trainers are willing and happy to travel.
Can you deliver training internationally?
We can. And we regularly do. In the recent past, we’ve worked with clients in the US, in the UK, in South East Asia and across mainland Europe.