“Great stories happen to those who can tell them”
- Ira Glass
The Story Rules Content Hub
Welcome to the Story Rules Content Hub – the best place on the web to learn all about storytelling techniques for work. 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.
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5Cs - Cerebrate/reflect (5)
5Cs - Consume good content (229)
6W1H framework for story flow (9)
Add human stories (18)
Appeal to emotions (14)
Be authentic and vulnerable (13)
Big Picture first (7)
Build common ground (5)
Clear messages (26)
Conjunctions to connect messages (5)
Convert numbers to right charts (22)
Convert words to right images (21)
Credibility/Ethos (11)
Curiosity: Control release of info (19)
Curiosity: Use mystery (7)
De-clutter slides (9)
Derive BLUF (6)
Familiarity: Analogies (30)
Familiarity: Anthropomorphize (5)
Familiarity: Connect with what audience knows (17)
Familiarity: Make abstract concrete (5)
Familiarity: Make numbers relatable (10)
Familiarity: Use human stories (36)
Figures of rhetoric (6)
Finding patterns (15)
Framework (11)
Humanise - show human element (30)
Know your Audience & be empathetic (11)
Make audience empathise (14)
MECE list of ideas (9)
No mismatch between message and slide contents (5)
Productivity hacks (8)
Pyramid Principle (18)
Relevant comprehensive and credible Data (15)
Right metrics (5)
Show-don't just tell (35)
Show context of performance (10)
Story Situation: Business Reviews (5)
Story Situation: Social sector Org (5)
Surprise: Contrast (28)
Surprise: Grab attention at beginning (12)
Surprise: Humour (7)
Surprise: Norm-Variance (37)
Visually highlight key elements on slide (9)
Word choice: Simple-articulate-brief (8)
