136: How to Make Your Presentation as Compelling as a Movie with Ted Frank
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Backstories Studio Principal Ted Frank shows how to apply Hollywood tools to create and give great presentations.
You’ll Learn:
- The fundamental key to captivating people
- Best practices to help your audience remember the crucial points
- Keys to keeping it simple and real in your presentation
About Ted
Ted Frank is the principal and story strategist for Backstories Studio, with clients like Netflix, ESPN, and Twitter. He is the author of Get to the Heart, a book on how to apply movie style storytelling to presentations.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Book: Get to the Heart by Ted Frank
- Book: Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High Performance Companies by Paul Zak
- Company: Backstories Studio
- TED Talk: Paul Zak on trust (and Paul Zak on our show!)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 136 with Ted Frank. |
| 0:26.4 | Ted has a world of experience when it comes to movies and advertising and |
| 0:31.2 | stories he ties it all together to help you become a better present. and best practices to help your audience remember the crucial points and three |
| 0:45.3 | keys to keeping it simple and real in your presentation so if you'd like to check |
| 0:51.0 | out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we reference here. |
| 0:55.0 | You can find that over at awesome at your job.com slash eep one three six. |
| 1:00.6 | And while you're at awesome at your job dot com, I'd encourage you to check out some of our cool resources. |
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| 1:19.8 | Or the 10 days to winning at work email course which offers tools for a slashing an average of 84-ish minutes of waste out of each work week. |
| 1:28.0 | But first here's Ted Frank is the principal and story strategist for Backstories Studio, which has clients such as Netflix, E-PN, and Twitter. |
| 1:38.0 | He is also the author of Get to the Heart, a book on how to apply movie style storytelling to presentations. |
| 1:45.0 | Here's Ted. |
| 1:46.0 | Ted, thanks so much for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 1:50.0 | You know, it's so great to be here, Pete, I've listened to your podcast a bunch of times and you are so much fun. Oh shucks |
| 1:57.8 | Well, Flattery will get you everywhere Ted. Thank you |
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