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Can you share an example of a time when a story helped you make a point or inspire action at work ?

Can you share an example of a time when a story helped you make a point or inspire action at work?

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Robert’s Answer

At the start of my career, I was pretty clueless and often did things that weren’t that productive. I’d often go to my boss with another difficult thing that I couldn’t handle. One day he sat me down and said, “Let me tell you a story about when I got started in this industry. Like you, I’d go to my supervisor with problems I couldn’t fix. He told me this: Don’t come back to me again with a problem. Come back with SOLUTIONS and, if you need further assistance, I’ll help you to decide how to choose the right one to try.”

That advice changed the career of my boss, and it changed mine from that day throughout my whole working life. From then on, I researched how to solve my problems in books, online and talking with my more experienced colleagues. I went from a junior engineer to the head of a multi-million dollar international company with that story in mind.
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Karen’s Answer

While managing a nonprofit organization that provided small gift bags to parents who couldn't afford to buy birthday gifts, I often began my presentation asking them to take a minute and imagine when they woke up today they remembered it was their young daughter's birthday, but they simply couldn't afford to give them anything. I asked them to think about how they would feel.
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Jerome’s Answer

I am a sales professional and I use stories all of the time to prove points or encourage buying behaviors. I once catered for a Super Bowl (1500 people between 2:00 AM and 5:00 PM later that day). We had to navigate checkpoints and army vehicle with machine guns on them. I will tell other clients if we could do that, we can get their lunch delivered on time. The right story can help alleviate concerns and anxiousness.
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James Constantine’s Answer

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In 1960, my Uncle worked as trainee biochemist at Queensland University with a Professor. They were keeping small ducks in tanks, checking their chemistry. Years later, my Uncle died from a massive heart attack at 38 years of age. He was a co-manager in a liquor wholesale factory, with my Dad.

Then his old boss, the Professor came to work at our university lecturing in Biochemistry. I changed my major to Biological Chemistry! I continued on at another university with postgraduate biochemistry, tutoring dental and medical students. Then my Dad died of the same illness at 50 years of age!

The year after I started studying to become a dietitian-nutritionist! I helped thousands of patients referred by medical doctors!

GOD BLESS!
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