Welcome to the Story Rules Content Hub – the second best resource to learn all about storytelling techniques for work (after ‘Story Rules‘, my comprehensive book on the topic!).
In this Hub, Here’s where you get rich storytelling examples, analyses, viewpoints, interview nuggets, visuals, quotes, and much, much more. To find out how you can make the most of this resource, please watch this 12-minute video.
You can explore this (for now free!) resource in four ways:
How do you choose the right charts for your data stories? And how do you figure out what type of images you can use to depict ideas on slides? In this post, I share a couple of nifty tools Here’s the first one: You can download a hi-res PDF of this page here. And here’s the images cheat sheet: And you can get a hi-res PDF of this page here. Cover Photo by Luke Chesser on Unsplash …
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One of the most powerful storytelling techniques that I teach is the 1-3-9 Story Spine. Please read this older post to get an idea about the concept. In this post, we consider a few advanced questions about this storytelling technique: a. Does the idea work in real life? Are there any examples of people using it? b. After the one-sentence summary at the top, how many buckets and levels should be there? c. How do I know if my story narrative is complete, clear and correct? d. Should the summary be perfectly in place before we start work on our …
In this post, I will share why it is better to have a longsh (upto 2 lines) message on the top of your slides, rather than a short title. Here’s a small exercise for you. What is the right headline for the two charts? Is it: Some of you might be leaning towards option (b), while some may think that (d) sounds better. The answer: None of the above None of them answer the question for the audience: what meaning do the two charts convey? Each of them leaves unanswered questions in the audience’s mind: Header Audience’s response India: Literacy …
