Cohort 2

Storytelling is like breathing. You become better by being mindful. 
A 3-week course to spot, shape, and share stories in your conversations

Pramoda Vyasarao

Founder of Changesmith

Storytelling in the Tech World

Oracle

Storytelling is the art of communicating through stories. It’s an effective tool for influencing your audience and impacting them. Storytelling is like breathing. It’s natural to you. You become better by being mindful. In this 3-week online course, you’ll learn to spot, shape, and share stories in your conversations.&nbsp; We'll have 3 live sessions as part of this course. Each session is 90 minutes long. We start with the Hero’s journey story framework in the first week. The second week is focused on shaping “sticky” stories. Sticky stories change people's thoughts and behaviors. During the last week, you’ll narrate stories in various contexts in the world of technology: performance reviews, resumes, LinkedIn profiles, job interviews, workplace presentations, and business stories.&nbsp;Your story narration will be in both oral and written forms. The course content draws inspiration from Dr.Joseph Campbell’s extensive research on mythological heroes around the world. You’ll master the universal story framework, “Hero’s Journey.” Once you understand the elements of Hero’s journey, you spot opportunities for storytelling in every interaction. You’ll start enjoying it.&nbsp; Are you keen to be an effective communicator through storytelling? The course is designed with practicality in mind. What you learn here will be immediately useful and applicable in your life. I look forward to hearing your story - particularly the story about how you decided to sign up for this course! Join us, Hero! Alumni include:Personas: Engineers, Engineering Leaders, Product Leaders, Program Managers, Entrepreneurs, and Consultants.Companies: Google, Salesforce, Oracle, Taulia, Ridecell, EY, PWC, Dell, Fidelity, JCrew and many start-ups. Bonus material:- Video recording of all live sessions available via the Maven platform- Class slides as a PDF- Opportunity to practice storytelling with technical experts from diverse backgrounds

In every interaction, you tell stories. Why not   make it impactful?

Senior Engineers, Tech Leads and Staff Engineers who want to influence without titles

Product Managers and Engineering Managers who paint the project canvas with vision, and pathways to inspire collaboration

Anyone who’s looking to improve storytelling skills as an entrepreneur or aspiring candidate for leadership interviews or teachers/speakers

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Spot opportunities for storytelling in everyday interactions. With this awareness, you’ll communicate with influence

Shape your stories to make an impact. You’ll develop stories that are relatable, tangible and understandable

Share stories in a variety of contexts: meetings, discussions, interviews, self-review, resume and LinkedIn profile

Learn the rubber band technique to narrate a story in the range of 30 seconds to 120 seconds 
 

Practice storytelling with peers in a group of 2 or 3; 90 minutes of practice over 3 weeks! You’ll surprise yourself on this journey 
 

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First Module

Second Module

Third Module

Course syllabus

Meet your instructor

We have three 90-minute sessions. Each session has a theme. In every session, you'll get 30 minutes to meet other participants in breakout rooms. You'll narrate and hear stories in these breakout rooms of 2 or 3 people in a room.

Fridays

Course schedule

This course is designed with the intention of doing the work more than gaining knowledge. Transformation is more important than information.

Learning by Storytelling

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and practice sessions on Storytelling

Interactive and peer-focused

Join a community of growth-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you and narrate better stories

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