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Creating Your Inspiring Narrative

From connecting authentically with audiences, to telling compelling stories, to making a clear call to action, this program is all about driving positive change and meaningful results.

Program Overview:

Leaders will learn and practice communications skills designed to help them inspire the members of their communities to see their vision and work together to create a better future.

In the safety of a cohort of colleagues, this program provides leaders with the space to share their leadership challenges and opportunities, discuss how Inspiring Educators’ approach to leadership communications can help them realize their vision, practice new communications skills, and get feedback from the facilitator and their peers. Depending upon an organization’s specific needs, the teaching-and-learning format can blend full-group participation with small-group breakouts and one-on-one coaching.

Plan This Program

Core Objectives:

  • Explore a framework that you can use to generate buy-in and inspire stakeholders support and engagement.

  • Build on leadership communication skills and storytelling techniques introduced in foundational workshop Leading With Presence or Articulating Your Why.

  • Practice effectively giving and receiving feedback through collaborative exercises and observation.

  • Learn how to weave together key framework components to create your Inspiring Narrative

    • Practice creating an Empathetic Bridge to your audience

    • Refine a Personal Story that conveys your values and demonstrates your ability and commitment to leading change for the community

    • Identify a Success Story that captures a student or staff member overcoming an obstacle and illustrates a part of your vision for your school and all students

    • Develop a Motivational Bridge that moves people to a positive emotional state, and makes a specific call to action that motivates people to join them in realizing their vision

    • Prerequisite: For best results, we recommend first completing Leading With Presence or Articulating Your Why.

    • Group Size: Small (max 10 participants, for both virtual and in person programs)

    • Duration: 4 hours (presented as a half day program, both in person and virtually)

  • Rallying support/buy-in for new initiatives, founding teams, family/community engagement, or fundraising

optional Program variation

This program can be offered with an increased, targeted emphasis on teacher/staff retention.

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What Past Participants Are Saying:

  • “Immediately applicable skills, practices, and perspectives. This framework will help me whenever I present from this point forward.”

  • “I appreciate being explicitly taught how to speak and convey messages to my school community. Most leaders have to learn public speaking skills on the fly. I appreciate the investment in us to learn these skills.”

  • “This program did a great job of laying the groundwork for what drives an effective story and in giving us the time to process on our own and engage in consultancy. The framework they provided us with allowed me to create and chunk up an action plan in a manner that felt manageable.”

  • “I would 100% recommend this session to any educator or leader to elevate their thinking, narrative storytelling, and be able to apply new learned knowledge tomorrow if need be.”

  • “This really teaches you to be more relatable/real with your audience which increases your chances to receive what you are requesting.”

  • “This was probably the best and most effective leadership training I have ever attended. My facilitator was extremely captivating and relatable which allowed me to be engaged the entire time.”