How to Become a Great Storyteller and Engage Your Audience
Mon Feb 02 2026
Great speakers know how to tell a great story. On this episode, I'll give you the five key steps of storytelling that these great speakers know and use in every single speech that they deliver. (That's hat makes them great speakers!)
This is a continuation of the series we started a few weeks ago about your Presentation Skills Checklist. And over the last couple of weeks, we covered the first three items on that checklist, (1) how to know your audience better, (2) how to design a catchy title, and last week, we covered (3) how to create a presentation outline focused on what the audience wants.
This week, we're going to show you how to add great content to that presentation outline you created last week -- specifically through storytelling.
And, based on my decades of delivering presentation coaching to people from every industry on the face of the Earth, there is a good chance -- a really good chance -- that, right now, you are thinking...
"Oh, but we don't tell stories in out presentations." Or you may be thinking, "I don't think stories will work well for me." And, if you are thinking either of those things, then sadly, your presentations are likely confusing and uninteresting.
Let me give you an example. Think about a time where someone was explaining something new to you verbally, and the more the talked, the more lost you got.
For me, it happened last month here at my office. We bought a 3-D printer. And we followed the instructions to the letter over and over and over again. But every time we tried to sample print an object, the object disconnected from the plate and caused a big mess.
Luckily, my wife knows a teenager who does a lot of 3-D printing. When I told him about what was happening, he started giving me setting adjustments, tips, and a munch of other stuff. that just made the fix more confusing.
I stopped him and said, "Has this ever happened to you?"
He said, "Oh yeah, especially when I get a new printer."
I asked, "So, what did you do... Step-by-step."
And he just remembered what he did to fix his printer, and recited those steps back to me.
That recitation of what he did was a story. And it was way easier for me to follow. Incidentally, me tell you about my printer problem and how I fixed it was also a story.
On this episode, we're going to show you how to insert these pieces of evidence into your presentation in a way that makes you presentation more interesting and easier for the audience to understand.
The clip from The Hangover.
Show Notes: The 5 Steps of Storytelling – How to Tell a Great Story in a Presentation
(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/the-5-steps-of-storytelling-how-to-tell-a-great-story/)
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Great speakers know how to tell a great story. On this episode, I'll give you the five key steps of storytelling that these great speakers know and use in every single speech that they deliver. (That's hat makes them great speakers!) This is a continuation of the series we started a few weeks ago about your Presentation Skills Checklist. And over the last couple of weeks, we covered the first three items on that checklist, (1) how to know your audience better, (2) how to design a catchy title, and last week, we covered (3) how to create a presentation outline focused on what the audience wants. This week, we're going to show you how to add great content to that presentation outline you created last week -- specifically through storytelling. And, based on my decades of delivering presentation coaching to people from every industry on the face of the Earth, there is a good chance -- a really good chance -- that, right now, you are thinking... "Oh, but we don't tell stories in out presentations." Or you may be thinking, "I don't think stories will work well for me." And, if you are thinking either of those things, then sadly, your presentations are likely confusing and uninteresting. Let me give you an example. Think about a time where someone was explaining something new to you verbally, and the more the talked, the more lost you got. For me, it happened last month here at my office. We bought a 3-D printer. And we followed the instructions to the letter over and over and over again. But every time we tried to sample print an object, the object disconnected from the plate and caused a big mess. Luckily, my wife knows a teenager who does a lot of 3-D printing. When I told him about what was happening, he started giving me setting adjustments, tips, and a munch of other stuff. that just made the fix more confusing. I stopped him and said, "Has this ever happened to you?" He said, "Oh yeah, especially when I get a new printer." I asked, "So, what did you do... Step-by-step." And he just remembered what he did to fix his printer, and recited those steps back to me. That recitation of what he did was a story. And it was way easier for me to follow. Incidentally, me tell you about my printer problem and how I fixed it was also a story. On this episode, we're going to show you how to insert these pieces of evidence into your presentation in a way that makes you presentation more interesting and easier for the audience to understand. The clip from The Hangover. Show Notes: The 5 Steps of Storytelling – How to Tell a Great Story in a Presentation (https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/the-5-steps-of-storytelling-how-to-tell-a-great-story/)