Storytelling:
Your communication toolbox.
theWholeStory’s training, workshops and coaching positively and effectively develop your natural communication skills; so you can think, speak and work better.
What we do
Storytelling is part of human evolution. It’s a set of tools that made us the unique and brilliant communicators we are.
But these tools can get rusty.
Or we don’t know how best to use them.
But we all need to communicate well. Whether talking over an idea with a colleague in the corridor, round the table with the team for a monthly project update, formally presenting to the board, leading your organisation through a change, or building relationships with clients and other stakeholders.
theWholeStory’s practical approach enables individuals and organisations to understand and use storytelling well.
Good Storytelling
=
Good Communication
Coaching
Whether you are preparing a crucial presentation that needs to rapidly win over hearts and minds; needing to ‘control’ difficult or uncomfortable conversations with colleagues or stakeholders; pitching yourself at an interview; wishing to lead with conviction or gain a deeper understanding of a subject and how you think and communicate we can help.
Workshops
Our workshops and training are highly participatory, active and fun whether to upskill in communication and leadership skills, to collaboratively investigate strategies and changes, or to create and deliver visitor engagement, interaction and experience. We create an informal but focused, energetic and safe working environment, where participants can be successfully challenged to work beyond their comfort zone to get the most from storytelling.
Conferences
We deliver high quality experiences that will refresh and improve your delegates’ communication style or creatively explore your conference or away day theme. Would your conference or away day benefit from an inspiring and practical talk, some interactive break-out sessions, 1-2-1 surgeries over the tea/meal breaks, or a combination of the above?
Who we work with
We are proud to have consistently worked with a great variety of organisations and their people since we founded in 2006. Whether from the public or private sectors, from charities, museums and galleries or heritage and cultural organisations, they all found real value and practical applicability in our training and approach.
“I have to be honest: I was a sceptic. But I was so wrong. It’s hard to overestimate the impact theWholeStory had with my charity. ”
Chief Executive, Crimestoppers
Our Story
Our curiosity about how the practical, enduring and dynamic methods of storytelling can be used in contemporary working life, led us to founding theWholeStory in 2006.
When we began, we thought storytelling was perfect for presentations and museum tours. Now, as well as developing skills for effective, authentic and memorable communication, we use storytelling and creative approaches to investigate and gain greater understanding and to build connections, values and relationships.