Communication for Leadership
Workshop 15 April 2009
An event made possible by the Stanford Initiative for Creativity & the Arts (SiCA)
by the Cross-Cultural Rhetoric Project (http://ccr.stanford.edu)
and by the Hume Writing Center
The Power of Oratory
Deictic Gesture
Exercise I: Diagram
Exercise II: Story Telling
MEMORY
LONG TERM
SENSORY
SHORT
TERM
MEMORY FUNCTIONS
cerebral cortex
Rehearsal
hypothalamus
‘υποκρίσις
Opening
Delivery
Send Off
Exercise III: Application of Story
as Rhetoric of Leadership
1. Accompanied by 11 buccaneers, Captain Morgan advanced with difficulty through the
foliage.
2. His guide, Alonzo, cleared a path before them with arched swings of his sabre.
3. Suddenly there was a cry.
4. A spear had just pierced through the guide's shoulder.
5. In one quick movement, Captain Vane spun around, cocked his weapon, and fired up
into the shadows.
6. A smelly, bearded figure, with a toucan perched on his shoulder, fell at his feet.
7. The bird squawked "Shiver me timbers, One Eyed Jack!"
 Groups of 3: Apply all/part/Doxa of story
to communicate one research topic to
specific audience: Beginning, Middle, End
Magic Number
Left/Right
Brain
Aural.........................................Visual
Analytic........................................Holistic
Time...........................................Space
Logic............................................Gestalt
"It has now been clearly demonstrated that the right
hemisphere is dominant over the left in the analysis of
geometric and visual-space, the perception of depth,
distance,
direction,
shape,
orientation,
position,
perspective and figure-ground, the detection of complex
and hidden figures, the performance of visual closure,
gestalt formation, and the ability to infer the total stimulus
configuration from incomplete information, route finding
and maze learning, localizing targets in space, drawing
and copying complex geometric-like figures and
performing constructional tasks, block designs and
puzzles."