Storyfying financials
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Storybird - collaborative story telling for familes and friends
Storybird - collaborative story telling for familes and friends More and more online presentation tools are popping up. A recent one is Story Bird. You select the story. My first creation can be found here. Via Orli story. The service is targeted at family/children and works well. Narrowing down the degrees of Story
Is it OK to be "negative"?
Story to get the real story does not really exist, and/or they do not have the time to find it, so being a bit more explicit might not be that bad. a positive way to spin this story. Both models have a reason to exist: your product works great for
When the problem is not the story
Story When the problem is not the story that beautiful story is not the issue. Ideas can be pretty simple to describe, the market size easily All my clients want that presentation that uses story telling and captivating images to hook its
"Story telling" in a business context
The majority of business pitches do not have the entertainment value of a Harry Potter story. It is scalability issue. So what elements of "story telling" can we use in everyday business presentations? Some Story "Story telling" in a business context to open with "let me tell you a story..." Image via WikiPedia isn't. Did you know that..." Business presentations can use elements of story telling without having into a fast-paced, spell-binding campfire story. And no, few people will be interested in the 30 minute
One audience
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Staring at a page and repeat
Story overall story looks garbled and duplicated. Image from WikiPedia
Make it personal
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Against all the other options
Story story to an audience who cannot wait to hear it. When you pitch a business initiative it is
Presenting the conclusions vs the recommendations
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Branching out
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One level deeper
presentation designer, going one level deeper allows you to think about the story you want to tell from Story scratch. Often the expert has left out bits of the story that are obvious to her, but crucial for a cold slide, since there is a big fixed cost component to understanding a new story, independent of the slide count of your presentation. Image via WikiPedia
"They are not interested in this"
of time/slides on something. But leaving that part of the story out, creates a deck with only your Story presentation does not mean that you should pull that part of the story. It is most likely that the audience
Usually one thing is special
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Over-summarizing
got more confident with your story, and more importantly, as you got bored with hearing yourself Story
Too many things in your head
Story When you are deep into your own story, your mind has hard-wired all aspects of it in one complex down in the 30 minute journey back. No worry about story lines, no worry about structure, no judgement
What questions do you usually get?
the weaker point of your story, you might as well address things, since even if you had a meeting Story said that she understood a previous answer you gave? Does the person say she understands, but her eyes tell a different story
Repetition = boredom
Story earlier slide Do the full presentation early on, and give a very small recap of the story later when it
Anticipating the next question
Story We all understand that story telling is a better way to get an idea across than reading out bullet plan a story flow for a business presentation is anticipating the next question of a smart audience
The loooong Executive Summary on page 1
conclusion, and say what it is you actually want. Then dive into the 14 story elements one by one, slide Story , story elements. A presentation usually has 2-3 big points that qualify as messages Nobody can remember
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