Autodesk: Storytelling for impact workshop
Out of the different workshops I have done this was one of the best!
- participant feedback
In May 2023 Autodesk approached me through my association with Think Visual, looking for a workshop that would help them improve their skills around storytelling, seeing the big picture, support to be more comfortable when presenting, summarising a concept and building a story, particularly around the following key areas:
KPI Dashboard
KPIs - Audience: Federated Analytics
Comms Strategy
‘What I had in mind for this workshop was an activity that will help them tell a story with data or facts in a fun and more attractive way; and maybe identify some key principles and tools they can use going forward for our projects’ Alina Banea, team manager
Through a co-design approach with the client, I developed a bespoke workshop which included:
Welcome and introductions (with a warm up to storytelling)
Doodle lab - visual thinking tools
Autodesk to introduce key areas of work
Focusing on ‘what’ to share for impact
Audience identification, prioritisation and Empathy mapping
Know, Feel, Do - forecasting success
Focusing on the Why (then the how and the what)
Compiling content, information refinement / and relevance
Focusing on ‘how’ to share for impact
Storytelling (exploring the narrative arc and visual storyboarding)
Reflecting on our behaviours using Stop, Start, Continue
Round up & Feedback
At the end of the workshop I asked the participants to reflect on what they might need to STOP, START, CONTINUE doing in order to make space for new approaches like these. They said:
They also offered the following messages:
Thank you so much Becky for sharing and teaching me about storytelling it’s more than that I learnt today happy face life lessons.
Out of the different workshops I have done this was one of the best!
Great workshop.
Unique. Eye-opener for a lot of areas. Great collaboration
Thanks for getting our creative juices flowing.
The workshop really helps one toward storytelling thank you for the fun learning experience.
This is the first workshop for me I definitely learnt a lot of things thank you :-)
Thank you for a fun filled and meaningful workshop very insightful.
Thank you for helping us take a step back and reflect on how to make better use of communication.
Thank you for this interesting workshop learnt a lot.
Thanks. I will try to use metaphors when explaining difficult things.
Wonderful forum to foster discussions on why we are focused on a particular work.
