Spark understanding: Explain with story and visuals

Verbal interactions, chats, email, and social mediamost of us work to communicate thoughts and ideas constantly. Cyrene Domogalla explains how to be a more effective visual storyteller. Getting people to listenand being heardare critical factors in effective communication. Join in to learn how to explain better to achieve your goal and maximize impact with engaging visuals.

Verbal interactions, chats, email, and social media—most of us work to communicate thoughts and ideas constantly. But we all want our communications to be stronger, more engaging, and persuasive. You may be surprised to learn it’s a skill you can advance. Here’s your opportunity to learn practical techniques that will support you in being a more effective visual storyteller. Maybe you’re struggling to get others who are not as familiar with the material to understand what you’re talking about. Maybe people don’t seem engaged or your explanations generate more questions than confidence. Cyrene Domogalla dives into the methods to tackle these issues, outlining useful processes to develop a presentation, pitch, or even a short video for the purposes of explanation. She takes you step-by-step through the structure of building a narrative around your topic, shares a few tricks to selecting the most important information to support your story, and explores how to find or generate visuals that enhance rather than detract from your narrative. You’ll leave with critical basics in communicating technical (and not-as-technical) topics more succinctly and effectively, as well as some tangible and digital tools at your disposal. Bring something to take notes.