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Storytelling in Presentations For Dummies

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Storytelling in Presentations For Dummies

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

8 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

8 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Analyze why stories persuade an audience, and mine and craft material from your own experience for a specific group.

  • Construct a presentation with a strong opening, a memorable ending, a frame-by-frame storyboard, and slideware chosen deliberately.

  • Design effective slides, handouts, and supporting materials, and deliver with poise in person, in a team, and under pressure.

  • Handle hostile questions, bad news, and humor, and adapt your approach for virtual, training, executive, and conference settings.

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Assessments

13 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 6 modules in this course

Provides a starting-point assessment that helps learners understand their current readiness across the presentation and storytelling skills developed throughout the course. It highlights strengths and development needs across audience analysis, story mining and crafting, openings and endings, storyboarding, slide design, delivery, difficult questions, virtual presenting, and specialized presentation formats. Results generate a personalized readiness profile and recommended learning path without restricting access to any module.

What's included

1 video4 readings1 assignment

Establishes why storytelling is central to memorable business presentations and how presenters can find material worth sharing. Learners explore why stories are retained more effectively than information alone and how presentations can move audiences from what is to what can be. The module then develops audience analysis skills, positioning the audience as the hero and the presenter as the guide, before teaching learners to mine their own experiences and craft stories with a clear situation, tension, turn, point, and ending.

What's included

4 videos2 readings3 assignments1 peer review1 discussion prompt

Develops the structural skills needed to turn ideas and stories into well-planned presentations. Learners create strong openings that earn attention in the first thirty seconds and memorable endings that leave audiences with a clear takeaway. The module then introduces frame-by-frame storyboarding before slides are built and teaches learners to select and use slideware deliberately, ensuring that presentation tools, templates, and features support the intended structure rather than dictate it.

What's included

4 videos2 readings3 assignments1 peer review1 discussion prompt

Builds the visual, supporting, and delivery skills needed to present ideas clearly and confidently. Learners design slides that support rather than replace the presenter, create useful handouts and workbooks, write credible professional bios, and develop evaluation forms that generate actionable feedback. The module also strengthens presentation poise through preparation, rehearsal, voice, pace, movement, eye contact, and recovery from problems, while developing coordination, sequencing, and effective handovers for collaborative team presentations.

What's included

4 videos2 readings3 assignments1 peer review1 discussion prompt

Prepares learners for challenging presentation situations and formats that require specific approaches. Learners practice handling difficult questions and bad news, using humor appropriately, presenting inclusively, and adapting presentations for virtual environments where attention and audience feedback are limited. The module then applies presentation principles to training sessions and workshops, executive briefings, conference presentations, and situations where presenters must effectively deliver content created by someone else.

What's included

4 videos2 readings3 assignments1 peer review1 discussion prompt

Provides practical resources that consolidate the storytelling and presentation frameworks developed throughout the course. These resources bring together audience analysis questions, story mining and crafting techniques, the what is to what can be structure, opening and closing options, storyboard frameworks, slide design rules, supporting-material checklists, delivery and recovery guidance, difficult-question responses, virtual presentation adaptations, and specialized presentation structures. The supplementary materials also include a presentation toolkit, practical reference resources, and a final integrated project in which learners analyze a real audience, craft a story, storyboard and build their presentation, prepare supporting materials, and create a rehearsal and feedback plan.

What's included

1 video2 readings1 peer review

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