New Skill Paths and Paths to Performance now available to help organizations improve their people’s leadership and influence through storytelling.
CrossKnowledge is pleased to announce the expansion of the “Build Influence Through Storytelling” collection, developed in partnership with Mimi Kalinda, renowned expert in global public relations & strategic communications and professor at IE University, Madrid.
Following the successful launch of 18 videocasts in December, the collection now includes:
- 4 new Skill Paths focused on building leadership presence and communication impact
- 2 new Paths to Performance (P2P) designed for deeper, self-paced learning journeys
These new resources are now available for organizations looking to strengthen leadership and communication through the power of storytelling.
Why it matters for your organization
Storytelling is more than a communication technique—it’s a strategic skill. In today’s fast-moving and often fragmented work environment, leaders who communicate through compelling narratives are better equipped to inspire trust, drive engagement, and lead through change.
This collection offers a practical, scalable way to:
- Build influence across teams and functions
- Develop confident, authentic leaders
- Foster resilience and adaptability in your culture
- Connect people to purpose and strategy
From presentations and pitches to change initiatives and team alignment, storytelling is a core capability that helps organizations communicate with clarity, lead with vision, and inspire action at every level.
Help people build practical storytelling skills with these four new Skills Paths
CrossKnowledge’s Skill Paths provide your team with actionable strategies that can be immediately applied in the workplace. Whether your focus is on developing leadership potential or building influence across teams, these courses are flexible, time-efficient, and designed to help learners master a specific skill.
Here’s a quick overview of the four Skill Paths:
Persuade through compelling narratives
- Understand Storytelling’s Role in Effective Leadership
Audience: Leaders | Duration: 68 min
The most successful leaders, by their very nature, possess a vision that transcends the ordinary. How do they inspire others to commit to it too? This course shows the many roles that storytelling must play in igniting team action. - Master the Elements of Storytelling
Audience: Everyone | Duration: 56 min
What goes into a great story? Conflict, characters, context, theme and more. This course shows what we must be sure to include—and leave out—to ensure that our audience stays riveted and how best to craft these elements. - Structure Compelling Stories
Audience: Everyone | Duration: 57 min
If you’re not sure exactly why certain stories have the power to hook you in and keep you guessing what happens next, this course will help you uncover the secrets. You’ll learn about the timeless structure that makes a story compelling, whether around a campfire, at the movies, or in conference rooms and sales calls—and you’ll learn how to use that structure when you need to engage an audience and get your own message across. - Deliver Presentations with Impact
Audience: Everyone | Duration: 46 min
Good presenting means delivering a story—a message and a vision—to an audience, and this means using your voice and body language in ways that connect. In this course, a master storyteller shares her secrets for engaging audiences both large and small in all kinds of contexts while staying authentic to yourself and your message.
Available in five languages—American English, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, and German—these four Skill Paths are designed to support the needs of global teams.
From insight to mastery: two in-depth Paths to Performance
For organizations looking to build critical skill sets, we recommend our Paths to Performance (P2P). These self-paced programs offer a curated and structured experience rooted in highly effective pedagogy for better upskilling. Learners will go deeper into storytelling techniques and how they apply to leadership and influence.
Here’s a quick overview of the two Paths to Performance:
- Harness Storytelling to Elevate Your Leadership
Audience: Leaders |Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes
To inform, persuade and spur the people you lead into action, you must ground them in a story that shows the path forward. Storytelling is thus fundamental to leadership; in this course you’ll see how to build quality stories and deliver them with impact. - Harness Storytelling to Build Influence
Audience: Everyone | Duration: 3 hours
Influence and persuasion involve being able to tell a smart, compelling story. In the workplace, this could mean telling the story of a product, sharing the vision for a new project or even explaining your own journey as you seek new opportunities. This course shows how timeless storytelling techniques can make us more effective in these and many other areas.
Available in five languages – American English, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, and Germa – making them ideal for global teams.
18 videocasts on storytelling with Mimi Kalinda
We also launched last december 18 videocasts with Mimi Kalinda, available in seven languages (Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish). These concise videos offer quick, actionable insights on using storytelling to enhance leadership and influence.
Bring storytelling to your organization today
Empower your employees to lead with confidence, communicate more effectively, and influence others through the power of storytelling.
Reach out to your CrossKnowledge representative to explore how these new resources can be integrated into your learning programs.
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