Course : Brand Content and Storytelling: optimizing your brand strategy

Practical course - 1d - 7h00 - Ref. STT
Price : 890 CHF E.T.

Brand Content and Storytelling: optimizing your brand strategy




This training course will introduce you to the multiple possibilities of storytelling to create and reinforce customer loyalty and stimulate interest in your brand. You'll learn what's at stake strategically and how to present your brand as an effective communication tool.


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In person or remote class
Available in English on request

Ref. STT
  1d - 7h00
890 CHF E.T.




This training course will introduce you to the multiple possibilities of storytelling to create and reinforce customer loyalty and stimulate interest in your brand. You'll learn what's at stake strategically and how to present your brand as an effective communication tool.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Understanding the challenges of storytelling
Avoiding the pitfalls of storytelling
Identify the brand's history and values
Choosing a narrative framework
Writing and developing your storytelling
Adapting your style to the media

Intended audience
Marketing managers, communications managers, product managers, marketing project managers and anyone in charge of brand communications.

Prerequisites
Experience in strategic marketing desirable.

Practical details
Hands-on work
Writing workshops.

Course schedule

1
The challenges of storytelling

  • Storytelling: narrative as a communication tool.
  • The origins of storytelling: concept, history, key examples.
  • The fields of application of storytelling: politics, the individual, business.
  • A propitious context: the advent of Web 2.0, the economic crisis.
  • The growing use of emotions in advertising and marketing.
  • Understand the limits of storytelling: lies and lack of authenticity, personification, negative emotions...
Case study
Understand and discuss a few case studies in storytelling.

2
Different types of stories

  • Identify different types of stories.
  • The function of identifying with the brand's values and personality.
  • Properties of narrative: temporality, intentionality, meaning, identification capacity, transformative capacity.
  • Define storytelling style according to identified issues.
Hands-on work
Determine the type of story you want to tell.

3
Putting storytelling into practice

  • Identify the brand's origins, history and values.
  • Build a narrative outline.
  • Play with the story and its twists and turns using an actancial model.
  • Identify and profile the players.
  • Setting storytelling in motion.
Hands-on work
Storyboard the brand's story.

4
Storytelling

  • Define tone, style and play with emotions.
  • Involve your audience in the story.
  • Addressing the five senses: VAKOG (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory, Gustatory)
  • Capture the unusual and play on originality.
  • Adapt your writing to the specificities of the chosen medium.
Hands-on work
Write the attack and fall of the brand's storytelling.


Customer reviews
5 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
CHLOÉ N.
12/11/25
5 / 5

I really appreciated having a methodology that made it easier for me to create a story and I also really enjoyed working on a concrete case that concerned me.
ALEXANDRE H.
12/11/25
5 / 5

Very interesting, I thought I knew the subject and the training course helped me a lot, especially with the structuring.



Publication date : 03/20/2024


Dates and locations

Last places available
Guaranteed date, in person or remotely
Guaranteed session
On 22 June 2026
FR
Remote class
Registration
On 2 November 2026
FR
Remote class
Registration

REMOTE CLASS
2026 : 22 June, 2 Nov.