How many stories?

A question I’m often asked is ‘How many stories is it OK to include?

The answer of course is ‘It depends.’

It depends on the message you’re using the stories to convey. Does using more than one add value to your message and to your audience or does it water down the value of the single one you might share?

Can a talk be one long story? Again, it depends.

Some stories are powerful enough to not really need a narrative. The message or learning is so obvious that it doesn’t need to be spelt out.

Others are not and you’ll need to let the audience what you, or the main character learned from their experience within that story.

It all comes back to basics. Which stories, or parts of a story do you need to tell this particular audience to convey this particular message?

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Rachel Maunder is a communication skills and speaker coach and professional speaker.

She has been in the world of competent communication, in different guises, for more than 30 years so has a wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise to pass on to her clients, both through her signature programmes and her own presentations.  

You can find out more about her coaching programmes here and about her speaking topics here.