Use stories to engage people

Telling stories is often used as content in presentations in part because stories help deliver our message in any setting to any audience with results.

Michel Neray, an acknowledged shy introvert even as a young child, hosts MoMondays once a month in Toronto, Canada. It started off as a one-off event, as a forum for people to practice speaking. Now with locations throughout Canada and entering the United States, this personal transformation even attracts a large number of speakers, coaches, trainers, event planners, and people with personal stories who contribute in hundreds of different ways.

Neray's MoMondays bring in speakers of all levels. Professionally paid speakers often attend and actually love presenting in a total story mode. It is a forum for many to practice their material to a friendly, supportive audience.

One of the speakers commented to Neray that while often their reputation is to be a valuable content presenter, he loved MoMondays' atmosphere of...