Webinar Description: Knowing how to tell compelling stories isn’t just a critical skill when interviewing, it also helps the job seeker stimulate interest when networking and help others understand what they have to offer.
In job interviews, too many tell stories that fall flat—factual but forgettable. They come across more as an educational documentary than a edge-of-your-seat murder mystery or thriller. In this practical and engaging webinar, career coaches will learn how to help clients bring stories to life by incorporating concrete details, moments of tension or dilemma, and insights into the client’s decision-making process.
We will also show how to “wrap a story in a SARI.” We will also look at how to take the basic SAR model of storytelling and add a game-changing component—an I for Insight. By adding insights—both process and takeaways—to their stories, your clients will not only help interviewers gain a clearer understanding of how they operate and unique ways they approach problems, these two types of insights also help make sure the messages your clients want to deliver get received.
By the end of the session, you’ll know how to guide clients in crafting “Teaching Stories” that go beyond merely describing what happened to showcasing how they think, act, and add value. These are the stories that spark deeper conversations, differentiate candidates from the crowd, and elicit responses like, “Wow—we could really use that here.”
Learning Objectives:
- Upgrade Client Storytelling Skills: Learn how to guide clients in going beyond STAR to the SARI model, helping them tell richer, more insightful stories in interviews and networking conversations.
- Reveal Thought Process and Values: Teach clients how to embed strategic insights into their stories, revealing how they think, make decisions, and solve problems in ways that build trust and interest.
- Make Stories Memorable and Impactful: Learn how to coach clients to add narrative tension, vivid detail, and clear takeaways so their stories are easier to follow, more engaging, and highly memorable.
Your Instructor: David Lee
David Lee is the founder of SoulSatsifyingWork.com. He has taught storytelling at conferences throughout North America for over 30 years. Before focusing his work on how to use storytelling in business, he practiced and taught hypnosis and therapeutic storytelling in the field of mind/body medicine and trauma, both domestically and abroad.
He is also the author of Add Powerful Storytelling Techniques to Your Training published by ASTD Press (out of print) and his work has been featured in the clinical book Tales of Enchantment: Goal-Oriented Metaphors for Adults and Children in Therapy by Stephen and Carol Lankton.
When he added career coaching to his work 8 years ago, he noticed that the SAR, STAR, and CAR models of storytelling in interviews were missing out on an important element that would make client stories far more compelling, Now, as part of his work teaching storytelling, he gives seminars to coaches, counselors, and therapists on how to use stories to make their important points come alive, challenge clients’ perspectives and limiting beliefs without being confrontational, and help clients see possibilities where before they could only see obstacles.
David holds a M. Ed in Counselor Education from the University of Maine.
