Publisher Description
When speaking to groups, one of the sure-fire techniques that you can employ to be effective is the use of stories. Stories have intrigued mankind since our earliest days as cave dwellers. Regardless of what you're trying to achieve, telling the audience a story increases their propensity to be attentive.
In this captivating session, professional speaker Jeff Davidson, who has addressed nearly eight hundred audiences in forty-six states of the union and in six foreign countries, lays out exactly what it takes to effectively use stories with your audiences. Davidson, who has also written fifty-six books, uses his own signature story about the time he saw Katherine Hepburn in a play at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, to illustrate the points he makes. The result is an enjoyable, practical, informative program that will inspire you to begin using stories with your audiences, so that you can reap the associated benefits.
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About Made for Success
Dianna Booher is an American author and communication expert. She is also the chief executive of Booher Research Institute, a Colleyville, Texas–based company that offers communication consulting, executive coaching, and publishing strategies for Fortune 500 organizations and nonprofit organizations. She is also the founder of Booher Consultants, a communication training firm, that has worked for Fortune 500 organizations and governmental agencies since 1980.
About Jeff Davidson
Jeff Davidson, the Work-Life Balance Expert®, has written over fifty mainstream books, is a preeminent authority on time management, and is an electrifying professional speaker, making nearly eight hundred presentations since 1985 to clients such as Kaiser Permanente, IBM, American Express, Lufthansa, Swissôtel, America Online, RE/Max, USAA, Worthington Steel, and the World Bank. He is the author of Breathing Space and Simpler Living. His 60 Second Series with Adams Media, including the 60 Second Organizer, 60 Second Self-Starter, and 60 Second Innovator, are popular titles in China, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Poland, Spain, France, and Brazil. Jeff has been widely quoted in the New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor. Cited by Sharing Ideas magazine as a “consummate speaker,” Jeff believes that career professionals today in all industries have a responsibility to achieve their own sense of work-life balance, and he supports that quest through his website BreathingSpace.com.