November 2023 PMI-MC Monthly Chapter Virtual Meeting

Everyone knows someone at each end of the spectrum. You know the person who starts telling a story, and you’re totally engaged.  You know the person who can’t tell a story to save their souls.  Just to hear them start has you looking for the door.  A Coursera survey identified “Storytelling” as the NUMBER ONE business skill for the year ahead. Not cost-cutting. Not planning.  Storytelling. Carl Pritchard, PMI-RMP, PMP returns to the Montgomery County chapter to offer his thoughts on how you can dig in and become a better storyteller. Through the journalistic practice of the inverted pyramid to how you make your stories positively memorable, Carl shares his thoughts on making you build better stories.

Carl Pritchard is the principal and founder of Pritchard Management Associates. He is recognized lecturer, author, researcher, and instructor. As a lecturer he is considered a leading authority on risk and communications management and presents on a variety of management topics, ranging from project essentials to the complexities of network diagramming and team motivation. As an author and researcher, he has published articles on project management language, advances in risk management, and on the challenges of training on the Internet. His work as an instructor has taken him around the world, training with some of the leading international training organizations, as well as for private clients and the Project Management Institute®. He is the U.S. Correspondent for the U.K. project management journal, Project Manager Today.