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  4 Tips To Becoming A Great Storyteller  Understanding the difference between presenting and storytelling is critical to a leader’s ability to engage an audience and move them to action. Unfortunately, presentation software often gets in the way. Slides should be designed to complement a story, not to replace the storyteller. Following are five storytelling strategies to help you stand out the next time you give a presentation. Presenters open PowerPoint. Storytellers craft a narrative. If you want to engage your audience, you have to tell a story. But for most people who prepare presentations, storytelling is not top of mind. Most “presenters” do what sounds logical: They begin by opening the slideware. But most presentation programs aren’t storytelling tools. They’re digital delivery mechanisms. PowerPoint’s default template asks for a title and text. A bulleted list is not a story. A story is a connected series of events told through words and/or pictures. A sto