Friday, July 25, 2008

Communicate With Stories

Have you found that it is more fun to listen to someone who exemplifies the points they are trying to make? You can use this technique yourself and tell more stories and give examples of what you are talking about. Use examples from your own experience whenever you can. Storytelling and personal examples are great because stories easily slide beneath people's bullshit-indicator. People will listen and more readily believe you when you verify your claims with examples and a good story.

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Urban Gavelin a native Swede with more than twenty five years of business experience. He has held positions as director of sales- marketing- and business development on Nordic, European and World Wide levels. Urban has lived and worked in Stockholm, London and New York, now works primarily with leadership development and sales training and is a credentialed coach. He has studied Executive Management at Lausanne Business School and Stockholm School of Economics.

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