We'll begin with a self assessment of your storytelling skills. Your peer group will provide an initial assessment of your technique. We'll develop a shared definition of storytelling, understand why our brains love good stories and the power of storytelling in business. You'll learn the most common story structures and set individual goals.

We will analyze a variety of business speakers—from great to merely good to the truly terrible. From this you will learn and practice the tactics and tools of building good stories. Based on the peer feedback from session 1 and the lessons of session 2, you'll identify specific areas to work on individually. Identify your refined final project.

You'll learn from your peers of storytelling successes or disasters that they've encountered first hand. You'll exercise the pre-story checklist—your audience, intent and message, outline your speech using one of the story structures you've learnt and complete a first draft of your speech. You'll identify candidate stories that you'll use.

You put together all that you learnt to deliver a compelling story. You refine your script, top it up with appropriate body language, vocal variety and the use of props with a clear opening hook, crisp middle and strong ending. You'll provide one another feedback, learn from observed best practices and make a plan for continuous learning.