6 Tips to Help You Craft Great Opening Lines: Three Fundamental WorkLife Stories: Success, Failure and Passion Tell the Stories

by Carmel O' Reilly

Overview

INTRODUCTION 

Many Stories Grow From a Single Sentence.

The opening line to your story can be simple, eloquent, informative, contradictory, startling, thrilling, funny, curious, suspenseful ... But it should propose a contract to your audience: If you keep listening, I'll tell you a certain kind of story.

In these lessons, you will take time to think about an intriguing way to begin your:

Success Story
Failure Story
Passion Story

You will learn to craft the beginning, the middle and the end of each story.

You will learn The Art of Insightful Self-Questions and Effective Self-Feedback.

You will learn to embrace and fine-tune your powers of Self-Awareness and Observation (superpowers in my book) through the Art of Journalling and Thinking. 

You will learn how to use the Three B's of Creativity to reflect on the story you want to tell.

You will learn how to use speaking techniques to test how your story sounds and to help you deliver the words with the greatest impact.

You will learn to build a range of stories that are unique to you that you can then tap into to tell the right story at the right time.

You will learn to develop the practice of building a wonderful repertoire of great lines that you can use at the beginning, middle and ending of your story.

Through Aisling's story (the protagonist in the story/case study in this lesson), you will learn how to use The 6 Tips to Help You Develop Great Opening Lines That Hook Your Audience the Moment You Begin Your Story. 

You will also use the #6TIPS as a tool to both structure and test your story.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186592457
Publisher:	Carmel O' Reilly
Publication date:	02/21/2023
Series:	The Art of WorkLife Storytelling: Learn to Craft Your Unique Stories
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	361 KB

About the Author

Carmel O’ Reilly is the founder of School of WorkLife. She was born and grew up in Ireland, and now lives in Shoreditch, London.

Her work and subsequently her first book, Your WorkLife Your Way, and its companion workbook, focus on helping people live their best WorkLives by managing their learning, development and growth, through effective self-feedback, insightful questions and the ability to shape and tell their unique story. 

Her School of WorkLife book series tells WorkLife stories of the obstacles, failures, and successes people encountered in their WorkLife. Each book includes the exercises that helped navigate these situations, which are presented as assignments for readers to work through and adapt to their challenging WorkLife situations.

Her books are designed to help you gain insight and inspiration in your chosen area of WorkLife, and then support you in achieving what is important to you in your WorkLife learning, development and growth. You will learn to take ownership of your strengths and potential, as well as assessing your challenges to determine where you are stuck, to then uncover solutions to move forward.

Her new book, WorkLife Book Club Volume One takes you on a journey through the streets of Shoreditch, East London, as the members share culinary experiences, while discussing WorkLife struggles and successes through the wisdom found in the books they read.

Her WorkLife Book Club Case Studies embrace Learning Through Reading and applying those lessons to real-life situations. The series is a collection of stories inspired by real WorkLife struggles and successes and show how the wisdom found in the books they read helped the protagonists in the stories navigate through their challenging situation. 

The stories are presented as case studies for group discussion. The case and the recommended book are the required reading for each book club meeting and help to frame the subsequent discussion. 

The Art of WorkLife Storytelling is a series of e-books designed to help you find, develop and tell the right story at the right time in all WorkLife situations – in day-to-day communication: WorkLife and feedback conversations, presentations, talks, and negotiations, at interviews, and when socialising and networking in building and maintaining good relationships. You will learn to tell the stories that express who you are in an interesting and engaging way.