Be The Director: Build your StoryBoard

Putting ideas into action with support from the LookUP team

Wouldn’t it be great if you just knew the best way to pitch yourself in 30 seconds, in any scenario? Better than that, to feel natural in doing so, without any of the ‘ick’ factor?

That’s the goal of this piece. We all feel uncomfortable in scenarios that require the dreaded ‘elevator pitch’, be it in person or virtual. We plan to give you the skills so that telling your own story becomes something that you do with ease.

Ready to tell your story? Try this first:

Write down a paragraph that you’d normally use to introduce yourself. Practice on someone if you like. Keep it (or record it). We’ll come back to it later.

In our last post (here if you’ve stumbled across this without reading it already) we talked through the 3 problems that we all encounter in telling our own story, and the three weapons to counter them:

Here’s what you’ll be building: