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Public Speaking
Stanford Graduate School of Business
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2021 · score 0.7
A Stanford Graduate School of Business course on public speaking, covering how to structure and deliver talks to an audience. Commenters describe it as taught in a business school setting with Nancy Duarte's book Resonate as a course text.
One commenter recalls it as a really good course, and highlights the course's use of Resonate's idea of framing the audience as the hero on a journey.
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I took a really good course at Stanford Business School about public speaking.
One of the course textbooks was Resonate by Nancy Duarte, which offered a really interesting twist. The book talks about the classic "Hero's Journey" story template, but then flips it on its head: it suggests you consider your audience to be the people going on the journey, and it's your job to guide them through the different stages: the initial call to adventure, the trials along the way and the eventual return where they have been changed in some way (by their understanding of the topic you are talking about).
I thought that was really neat.