YOUR MESSAGE IS MORE THAN JUST A STORY
It's a work of art
Unlock the messenger
I provide a heady elixir of the science of persuasion, storytelling, behavioral design, and leadership combined with experience from the stage. I weave Western principles of success with Eastern wisdom without being woolly. But you can probably already feel that in your first chakra… I use comedy, music, and gastronomy as sources of inspiration and metaphors to share insights into the power of communication.
This means you get the following::
Clear message design
Solid content, tight structure , and an empathetic, action-oriented message. A story that touches your audience’s hearts and minds. Because if you want to change your stakeholders’ behaviors, you have to reach them on an emotional level too. People say what they think but do what they feel.
Impactful live delivery
Form and content are inseparable. If you know and feel what you want to say, you will be able to convey your story convincingly. You will dare to be in the moment and make real contact with yourself and your audience. Your outside – your voice, hands, and body language - then follows as a matter of course. If you dare to stand with facing the light, shadows fall behind you.
Boost your personal power
It’s a liberating feeling when you make your inner world outward. If you dare to give direction and do not shy away from confrontation and give yourself 100%. You will come to know the powerful feeling of accepting success or perish at the hand of your own truth. But even the latter is better than going down with someone else’s story. The spotlight turns to sunlight: your budding story flourishes.
The golden gun
It would be quite the ego boost if I were to write that I have the keys to guaranteed success. Sadly, this isn’t the case. Professor Hans Hoeken of Utrecht University and his colleague Daniel O’Keefe of the North Western University worked on a meta-analysis of dozens of review studies on communication message design for three years. Their most important conclusion? There is no golden ticket to success.
This conclusion is in line with my experiences. During my training courses, I always see that the design of stories is important, but stories only take off and speakers only start to make an impact when they really start to carry that message themselves. All the tools, structures and tricks are ‘inward looking’. It is about your guts and urgency as a speaker. You are the golden gun that shoots magic bullets, or techniques, if you will. I don’t focus on the ‘outside’, but on making sure you believe in your story and dare to be vulnerable, so that you can become bulletproof..
THE SEVEN words of the messenger
Setting down a powerful message starts and ends with you. It is an intensive, creative process. In my opinion, most persuasion techniques and modes of storytelling are only effective if they come from you and correspond to one of the 7 words: ‘The Seven Words of The Messenger’. This means that something has to already be or happen within you. A good story does not just fall out of the sky, but you take it for yourself. All seven words begin with a C - do you believe in coincidence?
- Confidence
- Care
- Change
- Connect
- Collide
- Create
- Conceive
REACH OUT
Contact me through the form, schedule a call or leave a reference. I am ready for you and have reflexes faster than my own shadow. Note: only 1 Rik Rottier left in stock.
- rik@themessenger.io
- (+31) 6 460 336 59
- Muiderslotlaan 26
1384 AK Weesp/AMSTERDAM
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