Run a storytelling programme where managers find, shape and tell the stories their teams will remember.
The complete STORY programme — facilitator guide, slide decks, workbook, scenario rotations, case studies and assessments — written by Bodhih Training and ready for you to brand and deliver.
- 2 days · 14 contact hours · blended, with a 40% concept / 60% story practice ratio
- STORY: Structure, Truth, Orient, Rehearse, Your Story in Action
- Grounded in Paul Zak, Brené Brown, Nancy Duarte, Jonathan Gottschall, Jennifer Aaker and Aristotle
- Each participant leaves with a six-story bank, a signature story delivered twice with STAR feedback and a 90-day practice plan
Storytelling for Managers — SMH001 Edition Trainer Toolkit by Bodhih Training — built on programmes delivered to 2,000+ companies since 2008.
The workshop is on the calendar. The material isn’t.
Inspiration without method
Storytelling sessions often leave people moved by great examples and no closer to telling their own. You need structure, exercises and a way to find stories in ordinary management life.
Vulnerability is hard to facilitate
Asking managers to share a failure story can go wrong fast. You need a calibrated approach and a safe sequence that makes honesty feel possible, not exposing.
Too little practice time
Real storytelling skill comes from telling, getting feedback and telling again. Fitting that into two days with a full room needs careful design and timing.
Picture the evening before your programme.
Picture Day 1 opening with the neuroscience of narrative — Paul Zak's work on oxytocin and trust, and Jennifer Aaker's Stanford finding that stories are far more memorable than facts alone. Then your managers get to work: Structure their stories with three-act structure, opening hooks and specific detail.
By mid-afternoon they're into Truth — authentic vulnerability, calibrated using Brené Brown's research — and the failure story exercise. Then they Orient: the same story told to a team, a senior leader and a client, so they feel how audience changes everything. The Meridian Group context keeps every exercise grounded in real management life.
Day 2 is Rehearse and Your Story in Action. Pace, pause, voice and eye contact. A story bank across six categories. A scenario rotation through change, difficult conversations, stakeholders and onboarding. Then the signature story studio: each manager tells their story to the group, takes STAR feedback and tells it again.
Somewhere between the first telling and the second, you'll notice the room lean in — and your participants will notice it too.
What you will deliver
A complete design, sequenced and timed — so every session has a purpose and every activity lands.
- Framework
- STORY — Structure, Truth, Orient, Rehearse, Your Story in Action
- Length
- 2 days · 14 contact hours
- Balance
- 40% concept, 60% story practice
- Outputs
- 6-story bank, signature story, 90-day plan
- Audience
- Managers, all sectors
- Formats
- In-person or virtual
S — Structure your storyDay 1
The neuroscience of narrative, three-act structure, opening hooks and specific detail.
T — Truth and authenticityDay 1
Authentic vulnerability calibrated with Brené Brown's research, and the failure story exercise.
O — Orient to your audienceDay 1
Audience intelligence and the same-story-three-audiences exercise.
R — Rehearse and refineDay 2
Physical delivery — pace, pause, voice modulation and eye contact.
Y — Your story in actionDay 2
A six-category story bank and scenario rotation through change, difficult conversations, stakeholders and onboarding.
Signature story studioDay 2
Full-group delivery, STAR feedback, a second delivery and the 90-day practice plan.
Everything for the room. Nothing left to build.
Unlocks the moment you pay. Until then, here is exactly what you will be downloading.
What your participants will be able to do
Designed for junior leaders and managers in any sector; managers who present to stakeholders or clients and managers told they come across as 'not engaging' or 'not inspiring'.
- Structure a story using three-act structure, strong opening hooks and specific detail
- Tell an authentic failure story with calibrated vulnerability
- Adapt one story for team, senior leader, peer and customer audiences
- Deliver with deliberate pace, pause, voice and eye contact
- Use stories in change communication, difficult conversations, coaching and onboarding
- Build a personal story bank of six stories and a refined signature story
- Commit to a 90-day storytelling practice plan
Walk in with data. Walk out with proof.
Trainers who measure before and after design sharper sessions — and get rebooked. AssessAll, our sister assessment platform, has assessments that sit naturally alongside this programme.
Walk in knowing where every participant starts.
Pair Storytelling for Managers — SMH001 Edition with an AssessAll assessment. Participants take it before the workshop, so you can tune the emphasis to the room; they retake it afterwards, so you can show the client what actually moved. Better-targeted sessions, and evidence that wins the next booking.
- Executive Presence & CommunicationView assessment ↗
- Stakeholder Management & InfluenceView assessment ↗
Nothing quite fits? Create your own assessment on AssessAll, or ask the AssessAll team to build one around this programme’s objectives for you.
That is the design work already done for you — research, session plans, slides, activities and assessments. Spend it facilitating, selling your next programme, or simply switching off.
The honest comparison
| Building it yourself | This toolkit | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to a deliverable programme | 60–120 hours of design | Ready today |
| Session plan with timings | Built from scratch | Included, minute by minute |
| Activities, role plays, cases | Hunted down one by one | Written for this programme |
| Assessment and feedback | Often skipped | Instruments and forms included |
| Virtual delivery version | A second project | Guide included |
| Cost | Your weekends | One payment |
Made for people who stand at the front of the room
Leadership and communication trainers
Offer a storytelling programme with a clear model, a strong research base and far more practice than theory.
Corporate L&D teams
Build leadership presence and influence in managers who communicate change, lead teams and present to stakeholders.
Sales and client-facing functions
Help account managers and team leads replace dense decks with the one story that makes their point real.
18 years in real training rooms, packaged for yours.
Bodhih Training has designed and delivered corporate programmes since 2008 — for first-time managers, sales teams, leadership cohorts and whole organisations. These toolkits are that reach, distilled: the structures, activities and materials that hold up in front of real participants, written so another trainer can pick them up and deliver with confidence.
Three steps from here to the room
- STEP 1
Buy in two minutes
Name, email, pay with UPI, card or netbanking. No account to create.
- STEP 2
Download instantly
Your download page opens at once, and a permanent link lands in your inbox.
- STEP 3
Brand it and deliver
Every file is editable Word or PowerPoint. Add your logo, your examples, and run it.
Every manager has the stories. Help them tell them.
Download the complete STORY programme, add your own examples, and spend two days helping managers find the stories that make people care.
Licensed to the buyer to deliver this programme to their own participants and clients, in person or online, and to adapt and brand the material. Reselling or redistributing the files is not permitted.
The rest of the Bodhih family, when you need it
Make the workshop last beyond the room
A workshop is two days; the behaviour change takes months. Jobulary turns assessment evidence into a focused individual development plan (IDP) — a few quarterly objectives built on real work, re-measured honestly. Give every Storytelling for Managers — SMH001 Edition participant a plan to carry forward.
IDPs are launching soon — the working demo is free to explore now, no sign-up.
Rather have us deliver it?
If you want Storytelling for Managers — SMH001 Edition run for your organisation by Bodhih Training’s own facilitators — in person, live virtual or blended, customised to your context — we deliver it end to end.
solutions@bodhih.com · +91 99000 11601. Building your own facilitation skills? See Bodhih’s Train the Trainer certification.
Storytelling for Managers — SMH001 Edition toolkit — FAQs
Already bought? Resend my linkWhat is the STORY framework for managers?
STORY is the five-part structure of this programme: Structure your story, Truth and authenticity, Orient to your audience, Rehearse and refine, and Your story in action. It draws on Paul Zak, Brené Brown, Nancy Duarte, Jonathan Gottschall and Aristotle's ethos, pathos and logos.
Do I need to be a great storyteller to deliver this programme?
No. You need to be a confident facilitator. The Facilitator Guide explains every concept and exercise and gives you feedback structures, so the programme does the teaching and you guide the practice.
Can storytelling training be delivered online?
Yes. The Virtual Delivery Guide adapts the story exercises, delivery practice and signature story studio for live online sessions.
What exactly do I get in the Storytelling for Managers — SMH001 Edition trainer toolkit?
14 editable files: Training Design Document, Facilitator Guide, Slide Deck — Simple Backup, Slide Deck — Main, Virtual Delivery Guide, Participant Workbook, Pre-Work Material, Case Studies, Role-Play Scenario Pack, Quick Reference Cards, Assessment Instruments, Participant Feedback Form, Certificate Template, Marketing Toolkit. Word and PowerPoint formats, so you can add your own branding and examples — and a single ZIP to download everything at once.
How much does the Storytelling for Managers — SMH001 Edition toolkit cost?
₹2,999 including 18% GST for buyers in India, or $29 for buyers outside India. One-time payment, no subscription, with an automatic invoice.
How and when do I receive the files?
Immediately. Your download page opens the moment payment succeeds, and a permanent download link is emailed to you. The link works from any device without a password.
Can I deliver this programme to my clients and put my own logo on it?
Licensed to the buyer to deliver this programme to their own participants and clients, in person or online, and to adapt and brand the material. Reselling or redistributing the files is not permitted.