I was on the Yahoo site when a title caught my eye An Interview Strategy: telling stories. All about preparing short stories about yourself, about your skills including how you overcame crises, stressful situations, failures, as well as how you contributed to a team, saved money etc. This reminded of Penelope Trunk’s post Be Memorable by telling good stories about yourself from her aptly named blog ‘Brazen Careerist’.

Telling stories is an art. Some people seem to have this wonderful ability to spin a good yarn and others, like myself, really need to work on it. I wonder if those people that tell a good story also tell jokes really well. I know that sales people tend to have the gift of the gab, but does that mean they tell an engaging story. Some sales people though, manage to create a huge number of stories – about them!

The article about Passive Aggressive organisations is a photocopy which was handed out a few weeks ago. If you don’t have this, I’ll bring it to the next lecture.