tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37504629656548317082011-12-20T10:24:05.560+11:00I collect stories to use in corporate training and coaching. Here are the ones I want to remember. Maybe you can find them useful too!Cindy Tonkinnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750462965654831708.post-9110198718590886922009-09-05T16:29:00.004+10:002009-09-05T16:34:54.645+10:00

Interesting post by Andrew Rixon of Babel Fish Group, about the stories told by people who had an accident. Where they had sued someone, their stories were "victim" stories. Where they had not, they were more often "heroes" of their own stories.

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I put this story together as my introduction for a speech on story telling I'm giving for a Breast Cancer Network's National Member Group Summit on August 13, 2009.When Cindy Tonkin was 17 she went to France as an exchange student. She didn’t speak much at all for 3 months. She didn’t think her French was good enough, and Corinne, her host student spoke excellent English. Then came the school

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At lunch today with Glen, he told me the story about one of his bosses who dealt very well with conflict and stress. This boss always overspent his budget, and was constantly in trouble with the internal auditors. He was incidentally a great boss to work for. He was also a surfer. When a wave dumps a surfer they go down to the bottom of the water and hang onto the seaweed until the big wave has

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