Storytelling to Inspire: for Speaking, Presenting & Training (Udemy.com)
Eight Keys To The Greatest Stories On The Planet: For Any Public Speaking, Presentation, Training or Business Arena.
Created by: Jason Teteak
Last updated April 2020
What you will learn
- Hook your audience and get them interested in your stories.
- Use content and characters in your stories that relate to the topic of your presentation or public speaking.
- Relates your stories to your audience so that they can more easily “feel” what is happening in your story as a result.
- Write and tell stories that have real, true elements that add sincerity and truth to the stories.
- Display and share vulnerabily (either of the yourself or the characters in your story so that people want to hear more about them.
- Get your audience to smile, laugh and feel good as they listen to your stories.
- Use the “mystery” technique with the “big reveal” or unexpected twist and surprise toward the end of the story to keep your audience listening.
- Build in “big ideas”, “lessons” and teachable moments that give your stories more value? (Hint: think moral of the story).
How it compares
Against the other 392 rated Udemy courses in Communication Skills on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 42% of them
- Reviews101#367 of 393 by number of reviews
- Length1.9 hoursshorter than 52% of them
- Last updatedApril 2020earlier than 90% of them
Course Description
My name is Jason Teteak and I have given over 10,000 presentations myself in front of real, live audiences.
Over the last 25 years, I have observed another 10,000 presentations by real public speakers, other than myself, and figured out what really works...
...in this program we are going to bottle up all that information for storytelling and give it to you.
In fact, we’re going to make this so practical that you can literally start to create and build your own stories right away.
Why are we doing this? The answer is simple...
...because you asked for it.
So many storytelling programs spend their time telling you how to create a story...
...but they don’t actually tell you stories to do it!
Or, even worse, they tell you stories that don’t fit your style or their content, and leave you wondering how you will ever apply it in your public speaking and presentations.
Perhaps the ultimate worst thing, however, is they try to tell you how to tell stories, without having had the experience in front of real audiences telling stories themselves...
...so, they don’t really know what works and what doesn’t. I have had thousands of people (who have seen my presentations and trainings on Udemy) ask me to tell them how to create stories.
I decided to create my very own storytelling class, and you are in it with me right now.
How are we going to do it?
...with storytelling, of course!
I have spent the last year combing through all of my programs at Rule the Room.
After combing through hundreds of stories...
...we have narrowed it down to 10....
...ten stories that will allow us to analyze what works for any story, and help you be able to put these techniques to practice in your own public speaking and presentations.
Here's what you will learn how to do in this program:
Hook your audience and get them interested in your stories.
Relates your stories to your audience so that they can more easily “feel” what is happening in your story as a result.
Use content and characters in your stories that relate to the topic of your presentation or public speaking.
Write and tell stories that have real, true elements that add sincerity and truth to the stories.
Display and share vulnerabily (either of the yourself or the characters in your story so that people want to hear more about them.
Get your audience to smile, laugh and feel good as they listen to your stories.
Use the “mystery” technique with the “big reveal” or unexpected twist and surprise toward the end of the story to keep your audience listening.
Build in “big ideas”, “lessons” and teachable moments that give your stories more value? (Hint: think moral of the story).
Bonus #1: this is a comprehensive learning experience. You will get a 48+ page storytelling workbook for you to follow along with every word.
Bonus #2: You'll also get a set of quizzes at the end of each major section of this program with "Your Turns" giving you specific exercises and tasks to practice on your own.
Bonus #3: Finally, you'll get activities and suggestions and an opportunity to stop the video and practice the storytelling techniques in this program right on the spot, "storytelling bootcamp" style.
And much more…
...it’s time for you to sit back, relax, and enjoy as we observe, analyze and break down the top 10 stories of Rule the Room to help you build your own stories for your own Public Speaking and Presentations.
Storytelling Mastery Reviews:
"I figured Jason Teteak might have a few new tricks—but not much that I hadn’t heard before. I was wrong. Jason integrates the latest research on presenting, learning, and audience dynamics with a captivating style that plays with the ironic fact that he is doing presentations… about presentation skills. And therein lies the secret to this marvelous program."
- Philip Deloria - Professor and Associate Dean, University of Michigan
"It's pretty simple. Jason Teteak walks the talk. In this day and age, finding a true thought leader amongst many is the key to getting to new levels. Listening to Jason and benefiting from his teachings will take you to that new level you seek. He is cutting edge, extremely practical and connects in a way that is motivating, informing and memorable. Some of the biggest benefits received from Jason are tactics, ideas and methods that are immediately implementable. Watch Jason’s program before your competition does."
- Al Lautenslager - Best-selling Author, Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days
“I have been to several seminars on public speaking and giving presentations, including Dale Carnegie training. I truly went into this thinking that I couldn't possibly learn anything new, but I found myself scribbling notes like a mad woman during the presentation. I quickly realized that these were tips and techniques that I had never heard before, and that I could use immediately upon my return to the office.”
- Joey Monson-Lillie - Human Resources Manager
About Your Storytelling Instructor:
International Public Speaking Coach, TEDx Speaker and Best Selling author Jason Teteak has taught more than one million people how to flawlessly command attention and connect with audiences in their unique style.
He’s won praise and a wide following for his original methods, his engaging style, and his knack for transferring communications skills via practical, simple, universal and immediately actionable techniques.
Or as he puts it “No theoretical fluff”.
Jason gained recognition at EPIC Systems in the medical software industry, where he was known as “trainer of trainers of trainers.”
He has developed more than fifty presentation and communication training programs ranging in length from one hour to three days that serve as the basis for The Rule the Room Method.
In 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 he was named #1 Best Selling coach on Public Speaking for his on-demand video teaching tools that quickly took off for over 100,000 online students around the world.
Teteak has flipped the model and changed the approach to great Public Speaking for even the most seasoned veterans.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
101 Reviews
Jason Teteak
Best Selling Author, YouTuber, TEDx Speaker, International Public Speaking, Financial and Executive Coach, Trainer of Trainers and Founder of Rule the Room, Jason Teteak has taught more than one million people personal development, public speaking, presentation skills, financial training, train the trainer, and communication skills.
He’s won praise and a wide following for his original methods, his engaging style, and his knack for transferring communications skills via practical, simple, universal and immediately actionable techniques.
Or as he puts it “No theoretical fluff”.
Jason gained recognition at EPIC Systems in the medical software industry, where he was known as “trainer of trainers of trainers.”
He has developed more than fifty personal development, public speaking, presentation, financial training, train-the-trainer and communication training programs ranging in length from one hour to three days that serve as the basis for The Rule the Room Method – which simply means he makes difficult things easy to understand and implement.
In the last five years, he has been named the #1 Best Selling coach on Public Speaking, Personal Development and Training for his on-demand video teaching tools that quickly took off for over 1 million online students in over 100 countries around the world.
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Reviews
By PHANDA BUSINESS on 10/8/2026
This course have deepened my passion for working with children and enhanced me with insight into cognitive, emotional, and social development. The course equipped me with with both theoretical knowledge and practical skills (Through research) to understand children's behaviour and emotional needs, assess childhood disorders, and develop ethical, supportive, and holistic intervention plans that consider the child's family, school and environment. I loved it.
By Rick Tasker on 3/1/2026
Jason breaks the technique down in multiple examples and we practice what we are learning and then Jason shows us the answers, this cycle is repeated so that we are applying what we are learning throughout. This is an excellent course.
By Owen W. Sutton on 8/7/2024
I learned the points I want to make to keep my classes' attention. Do you have a class which accentuates why they should leave their phones off or at the door. People want to keep glued to it.
By Gabriele Loeffler on 7/25/2022
This wasn't a good match for me. I would be very interested to hear about different approaches, scenarios, perspectives and contexts for storytelling. This one feels like a sales person talking about his own life.
By Edmond Remus Mailat on 9/9/2021
Thank you Jason for the high level of information that you delivered very quick and easy.You are amazing.Very high recomandation
By Maria Lee on 8/10/2021
Very useful and practical technique for delivering training. Have learned a few but great stuff. Thank you for the great sharing!
By Meghan Hagedon on 5/14/2020
Jason is a thorough and engaging educator. He is an articulate speaker which makes the content easy to understand. He states his presentation personality is inspiring and he is spot on!
By Prakash N on 4/10/2020
I love the introduction video with 8 parts of the story. However, The course was only analysis 10 stories with above parts. Being an learned we also like to know whether we should tell stories which are available or we should create own stories.. how to create etc. Expected more.
By Victoria Grantham on 12/1/2019
Lots of really good takeaways to be had, and I enjoyed dissecting the stories to learn how they're constructed. I feel that what I got out of the course (with practice) will help my storytelling tremendously but I need a lot more practice on the dissecting first. I would have liked a demonstration of constructing a story using the structure provided so I could see it in action but not having it doesn't diminish the learning, it's more of a security blanket to understand how it can be constructed rather than learning through deconstruction.
By Deborah wade on 9/2/2018
Because Jason give specific examples and then has as students complete our own. Very helpful.
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Overall Score : 90 / 100











