October 29, 2009

The story before the story

Fellow speaker,

Before you tell your story in your presentation, get your audience in the right "frame of mind".  Set up the story with a question that relates to the story:  "Have you ever been scared?  I mean REALLY scared so you didn't know what to do?  How did you feel?  What thoughts came to your mind?" and then, once you have them thinking about those questions, move into your story:  "I remember when I felt that type of fear.  I was..."

Setting it up,

Tim