Doug Stevenson
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Corporate Storytelling in Business Expert, @DougStoryCoach Expert
Doug Stevenson Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Storytelling in business, Corporate Storytelling, The Story Theater Method, How to Write and Deliver a Dynamite Speech
- Best Sellers
- Doug Stevenson's Story Theater Method, @DougStoryCoach
- Career Focus
- Storytelling in Business Speaker and Trainer, author, speaking and storytelling coach
- Affiliation
- National Speakers Association, ASTD
@DougStoryCoach
Doug Stevenson, president of Story Theater International, is a storytelling in business expert. He is the creator of The Story Theater Method and the author of the book, Doug Stevenson's Story Theater Method
His corporate storytelling, speaking, training and executive coaching clients include Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Lockheed Martin, Oracle, Bristol Myers Squibb, State Farm, Volkswagen, Century 21, The Department of Defense, The National Education Association and many more.
His 10 CD - How to Write and Deliver a Dynamite Speech audio learning system, is a workshop in a box. It contains an 80-page follow along workbook. Learn more at: www.dynamitespeech.com
Twitter @DougStory Coach
LinkedIn: Doug Stevenson and Storytelling for Business group
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Doug can be reached at 1-800-573-6196 or 1-719-573-6195. Learn more about the Story Theater Method, purchase the book or Story Theater audio six pack, and sign-up for the free Story Theater newsletter at: www.storytelling-in-business.com
Free Articles & Book Excerpts
What Exactly is Motivational Speaking - Part One
http://www.dougstevenson.com/2007/07/02/what-exactly-is-motivational-speaking-part-one/
What is Motivational Speaking - Part Two
http://www.dougstevenson.com/2007/08/06/what-is-motivational-speaking-part-two/
How to Write and Deliver a Dynamite Speech
http://www.dougstevenson.com/2007/03/21/how-to-write-and-deliver-a-dynamite-speech-part-one/
Free Audio & Video Samples
Doug Stevenson Audio & Video Programs
How to Write and Deliver a Dynamite Speech
http://www.storytheater.net/dynamite.asp
Story Theater book and Audio Six Pack Learning System
http://www.dougstevenson-store.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=NBBA-6pk&Category_Code=Books_Audios_Videos
DVD -Never Be Boring Again
http://www.dougstevenson-store.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=NBBA-videoDVD&Category_Code=Books_Audios_Videos
Video - Nine Steps of Story Structure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ3BDkMN1LY
Doug Stevenson Books
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How to Close Your Speech - Corporate Storytelling Training
What’s the point? I ask that question of every private coaching client. The response is usually three or four sentences long. The answer to the question, “What’s the point?” needs to be concise and simple, not a lengthy explanation. Can you state the point of your story in five or six words? Sharpen the Point and Make it Stick
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Corporate Storytelling for Business - How to Choose What Story to Tell
I recently gave the luncheon keynote speech for a state association. In the program that I presented, Emotional Eloquence, I usually tell three stories, which I call: The Oscar Story, The Chicago CEO Story and the Dagger Lady Story. Because I was speaking after lunch, I knew I needed to keep the energy high and work in a little more interaction. I decided to take out the Dagger Lady Story and replace it with my Airport Story, because the Airport Story is funnier.
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Corporate Storytelling - Tips for Telling a Great Story
You can give a presentation that’s a dazzling display of information and your vast intellectual knowledge, but when all is said and done, people remember the stories. Why do people remember stories but no other information? Studies about how adults learn show that memory is formed when a ...You can give a presentation that’s a dazzling display of information and your vast intellectual knowledge, but when all is said and done, people remember the stories. Why do people remember stories but no other information?
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Inspirational Corporate Storytelling Leadership Skills - Eloquence
I grew up with a father who was in love with words. His reverence for language, pronunciation and proper diction was an annoyance to me as a child, but a gift to me as an adult. I remember the way he would read aloud a passage from a book or a poem. He had a natural gift for rhythm and tempo. ...I grew up with a father who was in love with words. His reverence for language, pronunciation and proper diction was an annoyance to me as a child, but a gift to me as an adult.
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You Are Always in the Right Place - Trust the Process
My wife Deborah and I just returned from a month long trip to London and Germany. For the first 18 days we worked: a Story Theater Retreat in London, 2 Retreats in Munich, a keynote at the German Speakers Association annual conference and finally, a speech at a human resources convention in Cologne. It was a very busy, intense and absolutely wonderful time.
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Corporate Storytelling - Brain Science & The Story Theater Method
Why do you think Malcolm Gladwell is so successful? All three of his books, The Tipping Point, Blink and most recently Outliers – The Story of Success, are best sellers. The answer lies in the subtitle of his most recent book, The Story of Success. Malcolm is a synthesizer, a pattern recognizer. After he’s done his research and compiled lots of examples to illustrate the points he wants to make, he writes his books by telling stories. He’s a good storyteller.
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Inspirational Storytelling Power - A Leadership Development Tool
As the waiters cleared the dessert plates from the banquet tables, Joanne, the VP of Sales, stepped to the podium and began the annual meeting. The CEO, Jeff Carlson, could feel the heat building under his collar. He wiped his sweaty palms on the linen napkin and took another sip of water to wet ...As the waiters cleared the dessert plates from the banquet tables, Joanne, the VP of Sales, stepped to the podium and began the annual meeting. The CEO, Jeff Carlson, could feel the heat building under his collar.
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Corporate Storytelling in Business - Third Party Storytelling Tips
How to Make a Third Person Story Personal I always advise my coaching clients to use personal stories whenever possible. Personal stories establish credibility by letting your listener know that your wisdom comes from your life experience, rather than from reading the latest book.
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Public Speaking Presentation Skills - How to Open Your Speech
At a recent corporate storytelling workshop for Microsoft, I was asked a question that I hear frequently: “How do I open my speech?” Several others in the room agreed that the first two or three minutes of a speech are often the most awkward. Is it that way for you, as well? Do you have a hard time getting started, but once you get going, you’re all right? If so – welcome to the club.
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Corporate Storyelling in Business - Engagement - Persuasion
Recently, while providing a corporate training for the top sales agents in a large pharmaceutical company, I asked the following question: “Have you ever been speaking, and you look out into your audience and see ‘screen saver eyes’? You know – that glassy-eyed look that let's you know you’ve lost their attention?” They all laughed and nodded in agreement! If you’ve ever seen “screen saver eyes,” the two most important questions to ask yourself are: • What did you do to lose them? • How do you get them back?
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Corporate Storytelling - Engagement - How To Make Facts and Data Compelling
I once had a cat named Hermione. She got sick. So I went to the vet and he gave me some pills and told me to give them to her. That sounded pretty simple until I tried to do it. Hermione did not want to take her pills. She gagged and wiggled and scratched my hand, but she would not take her pill. I didn’t know what to do. A neighbor of mine also had a cat, so I asked her what to do. “Stick it in a piece of cheese,” she said. So I did. I got some soft cheese, wrapped it around the pill, and low and behold, Hermione took her medicine.
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Life Skills - Success - Take the First Step
I can remember growing up in Chicago when the year 2000 was a long way into the future. And now, in 2010, as we enter the second decade of the 21st century, I’m taking stock of how far I’ve come and what it took to get me here. As a child watching movies, I dreamed of being an actor in Hollywood. And then one day…I found myself acting on a movie set at Paramount Studios.
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Doug Stevenson's Story Theater International
Doug Stevenson teaches people how to be amazing speakers and storytellers using his Story Theater Method. A totally new and different approach to making a difference and leaving a positive impression when you speak.
September 23, 2007
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Doug Stevenson's storytelling in business blog
A blog that addresses advanced presentation skills and storyteling in business skills and techniques featuring Doug Stevenson - creator of The Story Theater Method and How to Write and Deliver a Dynamite Speech
September 23, 2007
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Doug Stevenson
Content without connection is futile. If you have too much content and too little connection, you'll be just like everyone else who overdoes it on content...you'll be boring.
Stop it! You are not boring. You are interesting. So why do you give a boring, content thick, bullet pointless, PowerPointless speech when you could engage people with stories? Because everyone else is doing it?
My job is to show you how you can be amazing. Not competent. Not corporate. AMAZING!
I do it with keynotes, training and workshops. I train for the top corporations in the world. I work with leaders, trainers and salespeople. I help people realize their dream of becoming pofessional speakers. If I can do it, so can you.
Read my articles. Listen to my interviews. Purchase my audio learning systems. Invest in yourself.
Contacting Doug Stevenson
Doug Stevenson's Story Theater International
2504 Shalimar Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80915
1-719-573-6195
1-719-573-6195
1-800-573-6196
www.storytelling-in-business.com
blog at: www.storytelling-in-business.com/blog
Newsletter: www.storytelling-in-business.com/newsletter
Twitter @DougStoryCoach
email: deborah@dougstevenson.com
contact Deborah Merriman, VP of Everything
How to get started
- Read my book, The Story Theater Method. Get it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Borders dot com.
- Download the Kindle version of my book, Doug Stevenson's Story Theater Method.
- Subscribe to my Story Theater monthly electronic newsletter. It contains a substantial article on speaking, training or storytelling every month as well as information on where I will be speaking. www.storytelling-in-business.com
- Call me for a free 20 minute consult. But before you call, know what you want to ask me. What do you need? Where do you want to go? Are you serious? Do you want to be successful and are willing to work to achieve success?
Other highlights
The Story Theater Retreat Experience. The retreat is an intensive on business storytelling held at the Peak View Studio in Colorado Springs, CO for four serious students who want to take their speaking to the next level. Doug Stevenson, the creator of the Story Theater Method for strategic storytelling in business, will guide you, in a safe and positive atmosphere, to your own brilliance. You will experience yourself as you know you have the potential to be. Over 700 people from the US, Canada, England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Singapore and Australia have studied with Doug. From speaker wannabees to corporate executives, you will feel right at home with Doug. He will challenge you to be the powerful speaker you know you can be. Are you ready to be amazing? Go to www.storytheater.net for more information. Free 20 minute consultation.