Storytelling while communicating.

Oh no, I a not a good story teller. No way I am near. I think this has to do more with my intrinsic nature of being shy and introvert. A very shy person, that's me, cannot be a good story teller ever. It requires a very good power of conviction, comfort level, vocabulary and love of the art to excel in it. It has t make sense so that the listeners are intrigued and convinced. Sense making is very important and so is personality of the story teller. 1. The triple C: Confidence and conviction, communication: A good ST has to possess these. Communicatio skill is the most important thing and that's supported by confidence and the conviction that he is good at it. 2. Presentation: Tone modulation, enacting, realism support the ST enormously. He has to know who is he catering to. I mean the kind of audience and has to modulate it accordingly. Obviously children and adults do not have the same level of understanding. 3. Observation, listening: These help in communication skill of the STs. A good story teller should be a good listener and observer. 4. Timing: This is very important. For the punchlines or the hitting points are to be narrated appropriately in proper time. Or else the fun goes a miss. Again, he has to keep somethings in mind. The line between the fun in listening to a story and a message being conveyed is very subtle. He has to be entetaining with good sense of humor. He has to be very smart not to repeat the same stuffs again again again. that would rather irritate the listeners and earn a bad name for him. PERIOD

I am a good story teller.I sprinkle it with a lot of proverbs and jokes here and there.

Actuall I do this a lot alok! I have a sales guy here in Egypt that I mentor and his English is not good at all. I have to use a heap of different stories to try to motivate him and to teach him about sales, negotiation and the business owrld in general as a result. I do become quite animated when telling him these stories too because it helps me communicate better with him. I try not to be repetitive too much as well but I do have to be for some instructions to make them sink in.

I like to do that often, or like say something with the effect of, oh yeah I heard that one too and you know a friend of mine something like that happened to her too and blah blah blah. I think people tend to remember more or believe more when they knew that it happened in real life. A friend of mine usually do this and sometimes she really alter the story to make it livelier, it was like in the real story, a friend gulp down ten bottles of coke, in her story it would 15 bottles of coke. But I think we do that too sometimes no? we make things appear bigger to make it livelier.

I don't really know if I'm a good storyteller. I think in most cases, especially when I need to be in front of a lot of people, I "crumble". I used to do a lot of public speaking in grade school and high school and then I just stopped doing so. It's a complete reversal now, I get jittery and flustered. But when I'm with friends and family, I can be very lively. Sometimes, I tend to hog the conversations and interactions. I think tone variation is very important. A monotonous voice can be quite boring no matter how hard the audience tries to listen. Boyfriend's dad tells very interesting stories but then he repeats them every now and then. Anyway, I think storytelling is a good way to have a rapt audience. It allows the audience to imagine and see what you're trying to relate that story to.

I am one of those people that likes to share funny stories with my friends, and unfortunately, I have a terrible memory as to WHO I have told what to. LOL. I do tend to use tonal changes and expressions to make the story more fun, that is just how i am lol. BUT if one of my friends says o ya I remember that, I dont mind, and the subject changes. They do the same thing to me, repeat certain stories. The thing is though that I have noticed, when someone repeats a story often, it's because there is something about it that they are still thinking about and/or trying to deal with. Sometimes it's just what they need to talk about it again, whether it is a good happy story or not, just so they can work through whatever it is that has their minds glued to that incident. And if listening to the same story again and again helps out my friend, then I am more than happy to do it.

I prefer to give some concrete exampleswhile narrating something. I try to check in between, by asking questions, to the listener, whether he is attentive to me or not. Though, I avoid repeating the issues, but sometimes it so happens that to stress a point, some issues are repeated by me. What do you do?

I recently found out that I cannot read a book thorougly from start to finish if they don't have examples of what they are talking about here and there. Examples make comprehension much more easier and I guess people who can narrate a story fascinatingly with voice and tone changes and slight hand movement can captivate and spell bind their audience than someone who just drones their point across. Of course, when something is presented in an interesting manner, there is a lot of response for it, which is what one expects when we start explaining something, isn't it?

I am a very bad story teller. I think I tend to repeat myself when I try to say something.