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Published in 2023, The Storytelling Hero will help you gain the confidence needed to become a phenomenal public speaker. I wrote this book to be not only a practical resource but a deep dive into the power of story and what story could mean for you. You'll discover simple tools and techniques you can apply every time you speak to a group or an individual.
The Confident Communicator Toolkit – Stewart Bewley
I started writing this book having just coached 1,500 new hires at Microsoft in Seattle, and was asking myself the question: what if I could take everything I teach people from the stage and get it down on paper so they could have it in their hands?
The Confident Communicator Toolkit is the answer to that question.
It includes bite-sized practical chapters on: - Creating business content - Delivering your personal why story - Overcoming the inner critic - Listening - Handling difficult conversations and more.
Getting this pocket-sized workbook in the hands of all your people will help foster soft-skills and communication excellence, resulting in a measurable cultural change in how you tell stories throughout your organisation.
I had no idea that the chapter on listening would transform my marriage, my parenting and my business all at once. It changes everything. This book will open your eyes to how bad you are at listening and then you can get good!
Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel Prize for his work on behavioural economics. And this is what he says In essence – less is more. Speak in short sentences. And tell stories.
Timothy Gallwey writes about how he sets his clients free from their bad habits. It’s all about paying attention to what you do. This book goes way beyond tennis and into our inner life and how we can control adrenaline.
This book comes out of Harvard and a shed-load of research.t will highlight immediately relationships and conversations where we have got stuck in our positions and forgotten the person and their story in front of us.
This book is all about why some ideas stick, why some don’t and how to make sure your ideas are always memorable. It is full of stories and things you can do, but honestly the introduction has got enough to keep you going for life! Read it, underline it, re-read it and then start to play.
You don’t have to create anything new – you just have to find what is there and then use it! I have used most of the ideas in his book to keep me creative and generating new ideas.
Power poses - Amy Cuddy In this Ted Talk, Amy Cuddy gives a deeply compelling story for the science behind ‘power poses’ and offers some practical advice. Watch it, then take a trip to the bathroom / corridor / anywhere where no one can see you and practise a power pose for two minutes just before you get online. It will feel weird but makes a big difference!
The Hero’s Journey Hollywood use it in most of their movies and when I coach my clients I teach it to them as a really helpful framework for their messages. This 4:33 TED-Ed talk is made in animation – short, sweet and full of all the ingredients you need to know. As with every description of the hero’s journey, there is extra detail you don’t need, but it gives a great overview and will help you place your story and your customer’s story into a framework of you as wise mentor and them as hero. It will help you create a beginning, middle and end and your audience will thank you for that!
The first 20 hours - how to learn anything, Josh Kaufmann It is possible to learn anything – if you give it 15 minutes a day. This is a deeply encouraging and funny TED talk.
Feats of memory anyone can do - Joshua Foer One of the many things adrenaline will try to steal is your ability to remember your lines. In this TED talk Joshua Foer talks about the memory palace and how your mind can be a brilliant place to connect the dots to make sure you always remember your lines.
It takes work, but if you want to go deep, this is one of the places to do it!
Blueprint for a quiet revolution, Susan Cain It’s the first three-and-a-half minutes you want to watch. I am an extrovert and that undoubtedly affects how and when I speak. In these first three minutes, Susan tells the story of the other half of the planet – of army generals and teenagers – and how, as introverts, they have used their stories to lead. Wherever you find yourself on the Extrovert/Introvert scale it is a beautiful three-and-a-half minutes.
