35 min
Designing Meaningful Stories from Daily Life with Kit Pang Life as Leadership: Where Leaders Gather to Grow Together
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Kit Pang is the founder of BostonSpeaks and a public speaking coach at Harvard Business School. He has worked with speakers ranging from NFL Players and Three Star Michelin Chefs to Fortune 500 CEOs and TEDx Speakers. He is on a mission to help individuals become exceptional speakers and communicators.
LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS
- Story telling is the greatest “state of the heart” technology that anyone can use.
- To tell a good story, keep three things in mind: 1. The time and place, 2. The situation, and 3. The thinking, actions, and feelings.
- When you are creating your Powerpoint, what are you feeling? If you’re feeling nothing, your audience will probably feel the same.
- Your stories should always have a point so people are very clear why they are being told the story.
- The PREP method of story development: Point, Reason, Example, Point.
- Stories always have to attach themselves to a point – especially in the business world
- Four reasons why you get scared in front of people: 1. You haven’t reached task mastery. Solution: Practice! And take more risk each time. 2. It’s high stakes in your mind. Solution: Realize it’s not high stakes in anyone else’s mind. Get out of your own head! 3. You don’t know how to control your adrenaline. Solution: Use your adrenaline to give yourself and your audience that energy. 4. It’s in your DNA. Some people have more of a predisposition to nervousness.
QUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION
- What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? Learning how to rise to obstacles rather than fall to them.
- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: “A leader is…” Brave, conscious, and light-hearted.
- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? What’s in it for them?
- What book would you recommend to leaders? Everybody Wins: The Story and Lessons Behind RE/MAX by Keith Hollihan and Phil Harkins
- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Sleep earlier.
- As a general life principle, is it better to ask “why?” or “why not?” “Why?” Just like a kid, ask “why?”
Website:
https://www.bostonspeaks.com/
Contact:
kit@bostonspeaks.com
Find Kit on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Boston_Speaks (@Boston_Speaks)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boston_speaks/ (@Boston_Speaks)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kitpang/ (in/kitpang)
Kit Pang is the founder of BostonSpeaks and a public speaking coach at Harvard Business School. He has worked with speakers ranging from NFL Players and Three Star Michelin Chefs to Fortune 500 CEOs and TEDx Speakers. He is on a mission to help individuals become exceptional speakers and communicators.
LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS
- Story telling is the greatest “state of the heart” technology that anyone can use.
- To tell a good story, keep three things in mind: 1. The time and place, 2. The situation, and 3. The thinking, actions, and feelings.
- When you are creating your Powerpoint, what are you feeling? If you’re feeling nothing, your audience will probably feel the same.
- Your stories should always have a point so people are very clear why they are being told the story.
- The PREP method of story development: Point, Reason, Example, Point.
- Stories always have to attach themselves to a point – especially in the business world
- Four reasons why you get scared in front of people: 1. You haven’t reached task mastery. Solution: Practice! And take more risk each time. 2. It’s high stakes in your mind. Solution: Realize it’s not high stakes in anyone else’s mind. Get out of your own head! 3. You don’t know how to control your adrenaline. Solution: Use your adrenaline to give yourself and your audience that energy. 4. It’s in your DNA. Some people have more of a predisposition to nervousness.
QUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION
- What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? Learning how to rise to obstacles rather than fall to them.
- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: “A leader is…” Brave, conscious, and light-hearted.
- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? What’s in it for them?
- What book would you recommend to leaders? Everybody Wins: The Story and Lessons Behind RE/MAX by Keith Hollihan and Phil Harkins
- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Sleep earlier.
- As a general life principle, is it better to ask “why?” or “why not?” “Why?” Just like a kid, ask “why?”
Website:
https://www.bostonspeaks.com/
Contact:
kit@bostonspeaks.com
Find Kit on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Boston_Speaks (@Boston_Speaks)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boston_speaks/ (@Boston_Speaks)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kitpang/ (in/kitpang)
35 min