Presentation Skills: How to Use Stories to Make Your Presentations Engaging and Entertaining from the Best Ted Talk: Running Meetings & Pre

Essentially, the best speakers on the TED stage were the ones who had mastered the art of storytelling. They had mastered how to craft and present their stories in a way that allowed them to share their message with the world without seeming like they were lecturing their audience.

In this short but powerful guide, you're going to learn how to use stories to make your presentations engaging and entertaining. Using case studies drawn from TED talks by Sir Ken Robinson, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Susan Cain, Leslie Morgan Steiner, Mike Rowe and Malcolm Gladwell, you'll learn how to craft stories that keep your audience mesmerized.

By the time you've finished reading this storytelling manifesto, you will have picked up twenty-three principles on how to create stories that keep your audiences mesmerized.

Whether you are giving a TED talk or a corporate presentation, you will be able to apply the principles you pick up in this guide to make your next talk a roaring success

You will discover in this book:

• The magic ingredient in delivering a great TED talk
• The "Story start"
• The Surprising element that make a story irresistible
• How to bring your characters to life
• How to create mental motion pictures for your audience
• Adding internal credibility to your stories using specificity
• The power of positive stories
• The spark, the change and the takeaway
• Wrap up

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