Storytelling for Business Professionals
OL920 | On Demand Course | Update | Self-Study
Description
Studies show that telling stories helps us be better communicators, but how do business people incorporate the art of storytelling into presentations and interactions? In this session, you will learn how to:
- Understand your audience, intention, and message for all communications.
- Apply story structures to organize information.
- Integrate "micro stories" and data into talks and conversations.
- Build a personal story bank.
- Attend this interactive session to gain frameworks and tips you can put into practice immediately to become a more effective communicator.
This course is part of the 2023 Empower - Women's Leadership Conference Bundle. Purchase the conference bundle here.
Credits
| Number of Credits | Type of Credits |
|---|---|
| 2.00 | Personal Development |
Prices
- Member (Early Bird)
- $79.00
- Non-Member (Early Bird)
- $109.00
- Member
- $79.00
- Non-Member
- $109.00
Instructors
Martha Weeks
Martha Weeks is a coach and lecturer at the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She spent more than fifteen years coaching MBA and executive education students at Stanford Business School. She has worked with clients on TEDx talks and hundreds of business, technical, and medical presentations as a speechwriter and coach.
Since 1993, Martha has provided services to Fortune 100 organizations, including Google, Microsoft, Volkswagen America, and Zynga, as well as numerous start-up companies. She leads workshops and coaches executives, physicians, engineers, and other business professionals to create and deliver persuasive presentations for conferences, investors, and internal audiences.
Martha earned an MBA from the University of California-Berkeley and a BA in mathematics from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She serves on the board of the University of Tennessee's College of Nursing.
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