Communication Capability Pathway - Core Skills
Storytelling for Humans in
the Age of AI
The way we write has evolved, the way we read has changed and the way we use language has altered for good. The collective clamour for immediacy puts images first while algorithms override and automate human connection.
So do we still need stories in today’s visual and virtual worlds? Yes we do – perhaps more than ever — but we need to approach it in a different way. This online session is designed to help you get to grips with great storytelling and write with confidence.
AI is reshaping the way stories are made, shared and understood. It acts as both helper and hinderer.
With one hand, AI can amplify and support storytelling, offering tools to create, develop and extend narratives across multiple platforms. With the other, it can distort, bury and fracture stories, allowing misinformation to spread, fragmenting shared understanding and undermining trust.
So do we still need stories in today’s visual and virtual worlds? Yes we do – perhaps more than ever — but we need to approach it in a different way. This online session is designed to help you get to grips with great storytelling and write with confidence.
AI is reshaping the way stories are made, shared and understood. It acts as both helper and hinderer.
With one hand, AI can amplify and support storytelling, offering tools to create, develop and extend narratives across multiple platforms. With the other, it can distort, bury and fracture stories, allowing misinformation to spread, fragmenting shared understanding and undermining trust.
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Course overview
Watch and Listen
Live Online
27 June 2025
12:30pm NZST
12:30pm NZST
Digital Guides
Readings and resources
Practical
Story challenges
Certificate of Completion
CPD Points - 2
What will you cover?
Explore the shape of storytelling in today's world. Discover new approaches. Find fresh ways to engage with your stakeholders and communities and tell your stories well.
Share stories that develop knowledge and build relationships.
Learn how to use generative artificial intelligence to sharpen your skills and support your storytelling.
Share stories that develop knowledge and build relationships.
Learn how to use generative artificial intelligence to sharpen your skills and support your storytelling.
What’s the story – how to get to the heart of what’s going on
Transforming technical or complex information into engaging stories is hard.
The first step on the road to great organisational narratives? Discover how to find your story.
The first step on the road to great organisational narratives? Discover how to find your story.
Ways to engage your humans
Telling a story is one thing - keeping people with you to the end is another. Step four - understand who is with you and the type of story you are telling.
Storytelling for change
Stories influence behaviour and develop understanding, essential in times of change. Our second step - understand who the story is for and why it needs to be told.
What works best? Harnessing style and tone
Step five - refresh your skills. Brush up on style, tinker with tone.
Finding humanity – making the softer voices heard
Stories amplify voices that struggle to be heard above the noise. Third step forward - how to create stories that connect.
Anyone out there listening?
Step six - was anyone listening? Reading? Watching? Have they heard and understood? Discover ways to determine if your story has hit the mark.