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Storytelling – Leadership Skill & Core Competency

This Master Class teaches the substance, structure, mechanics and essentials of stories. Storytelling is more than just a rhetoric technique. Leaders and their teams in corporations and organizations benefit from this communications principle – suitable for New Work with agile work environments, flexible project management and flat hierarchies.

Content

  • Why Storytelling? When emotion wins over facts and figures
  • How does Storytelling work? Evidence from Neuroscience, Psychology and Sociology
  • How to tell a great story? Master storytelling with “pssst …”: 5 corner stones for compelling stories (passion, story, structure, sensuality, rhetoric techniques)
  • What´s your story? Define your personal narrative for your leadership story, your identity stories, your value stories, your knowledge stories, your signature story
  • Where do great stories come from? Sources for your next story

    Your Coach

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    Petra Sammer

    Personal information

    • Master of Arts
    • ”Everyone has a story to tell“

    Professional Career

    • 2018 - today    Founder of pssst… petra sammer
    • 2010 – 2017    Global Partner | Chief Creative Officer Ketchum Europe
                                 (most creative PR agency Germany 2016 / 2017)
    • 2006 – 2010    Managing Director Ketchum Germany with offices in
                                  Muc, Dus, Ber, HH
    • 2002 – 2005    Senior Vice President Corporate Communications & Technology
                                  Ketchum
    • 1999 – 2002    Head of Brand & Food Group Ketchum

    Focus and Experience

    • Ideation, Idea Management & Strategies
    • Brand & Corporate Communications
    • Storytelling and Trend Scouting in Marketing & PR

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