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Level Up Your Work Skills
How to Get Everyone To Understand You
This event happened on Fri, May 3, 2019
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Overview
30 Lovely Attendees
30 Lovely Attendees
Your Host
Susan O'Connor
Creative Consultant & Adjunct Professor at UT Austin.
Austin, TX, United States
I love stories. I tell them for a living. I collaborate with teams on storytelling projects; I teach a class in digital storytelling at UT; and I speak at conferences worldwide. If your goal is to create a deeper emotional connection with your audience, I can help. Franchises in my portfolio have sold over 30 million copies and generated over half a billion dollars in sales. Eating breakfast tacos in Austin since way back when.
About this FieldTrip
Look. Your dog already gets you, 100%.
But what about people at work - clients, and coworkers, and other stakeholders? Do they get you?
Do they understand what you have to offer and how awesome you truly are?
Stories help.
Stories get you a seat at the table.
Stories help other people say Yes to your ideas.
Best of all, storytelling is a skill - one you can learn.
In this hands-on creative workshop, Susan O’ Connor will help us take a different approach to storytelling. Weâll play board games and Mad Libs, talk shop about story, and create our own personalized narrative roadmaps!
Youâll come away with a set of storytelling tools that will make you more persuasive, effective, and compelling - to everybody except your dog.
Susan OâConnor is a writer, teacher, and storytelling consultant. Franchises in her portfolio have sold over 30 million copies and generated over half a billion dollars in sales. If youâve got a story to tell, she can help you tell it. Find out more about her at susanoconnorwriter.com.
What to expect
Lecture format!
This is a more traditional format where participants absorb information through presentations and talks.
Real-time only!
This FieldTrip will not be recorded.
This FieldTrip was made possible by
Chameleon Cold-Brew is Austinâs original consciously-crafted, organic cold-brew coffee.
To take your business to the next level, you need to get in the right atmosphere. Join small-business owners, entrepreneurs, and freelancers in helping build the next great work community in East Austin. Atmosphere is about the right mix of people that know while competition is fierce, cooperation grows your business.
Your Host
Susan O'Connor
Creative Consultant & Adjunct Professor at UT Austin.
Austin, TX, United States
About Susan O'Connor
I love stories. I tell them for a living. I collaborate with teams on storytelling projects; I teach a class in digital storytelling at UT; and I speak at conferences worldwide. If your goal is to create a deeper emotional connection with your audience, I can help. Franchises in my portfolio have sold over 30 million copies and generated over half a billion dollars in sales. Eating breakfast tacos in Austin since way back when.
Attendees
Kat Atmar
Freelance Visual Designer.
Talia Pinzari
Founder & PR Director at Pinzari PR.
Oktavia Merazga
Business Analyst at hintt.
Jessika Mann
UX Writer & Content Designer at Google.
Alex Cogan
Community Engagement Specialist at City of Austin.
Merrily McGugan
Glenn Mendonsa
Alyssa Morris
Writer at Freelance.
Mary M.
Jennifer D.
How to make the most of FieldTrips
The FieldTrips experience is defined not only by what the host has to share, but also by how we show up individually and collectively. The way we show up impacts our capacity to be moved, inspired, and activated.
Show up fully
Get ready to be immersed! Engage with smiles, nods, waves, emojis. Share in the chat. Get cozy. Turn off notifications. Sip your favorite beverage.
Stay curious
Wear your beginnerâs hat. Go with the flow. Welcome the stumbles and fumbles. Congratulate yourself for trying. Keep going!Â
Celebrate your host
Our hosts are members of the CreativeMornings communityâjust like you! Everyone comes to this with different backgroundsâa lot of our hosts have never done anything like this before! And we love that! Cheer them on when something goes awry and when it goes perfectly.
Support each other
Weâre all figuring things out in real time. Celebrate, rather than critique emerging ideas. Cheer each other on as you try new things. Try âYes! AndâŚâ in conversation.
Not vibing?
Itâs 100% okay when a FieldTrip does not resonate with you. Pop out quietly and try another experience later. Fill out the survey with your feedback (no dms to host or chat commentary, please.)
This FieldTrip was made possible by
Chameleon Cold-Brew is Austinâs original consciously-crafted, organic cold-brew coffee.
To take your business to the next level, you need to get in the right atmosphere. Join small-business owners, entrepreneurs, and freelancers in helping build the next great work community in East Austin. Atmosphere is about the right mix of people that know while competition is fierce, cooperation grows your business.