Tales for Trainers: Using Stories and Metaphors to Facilitate Learning, Revised Edition

  • 2h 54m
  • Margaret Parkin
  • Kogan Page
  • 2010

Tales for Trainers is an introduction to using stories, anecdotes and metaphors to give training programs more impact. Beginning by setting the use of stories in learning on a sound theoretical footing, the book goes on to include sample stories that trainers can read aloud to groups. The author provides 50 tales that will immediately help trainers, managers, educators and coaches to reinforce key messages and stimulate fresh thinking. Proven to work in a variety of training environments the stories themselves range from ones written specifically by the author to carefully selected extracts from literature (everything from Lewis Carol to James Thurber). The linking factor in all of the stories is that they each work brilliantly as an aid to learning.

Complete with a detailed matrix showing which tales can effectively be used to promote particular learning concepts (communication, leadership, problem solving, dealing with change, etc), this radical and ground-breaking book is sure to change the way you help others to learn.

About the Author

Margaret Parkin has a Master's degree in Training and Development and a Master Practitioner qualification in Neurolinguistic Programming. Founder and Principal of Training Options, she has worked with individuals, groups and major organizations for over 20 years, helping them with her innovative and refreshing approach to training. She is a well-known speaker at conferences and symposia around the world. Her first two books, Tales for Trainers and Tales for Coaching are also both published by Kogan Page.

In this Book

  • Tales For Trainers—Using Stories And Metaphors To Facilitate Learning, Revised Edition
  • Introduction
  • Once Upon A Time… Storytelling Traditions
  • Stories For Learning—Is Storytelling Still Valid?
  • The Right Time And Place—Whose Story Is It Anyway?
  • It’s The Way You Tell Them—Gaining Rapport With Your Audience
  • The tales
  • ‘…And I’m Not Joking’
  • The Tube of Toothpaste
  • What the Sleeping Beauty Would Have Given Her Right Arm for
  • The Meaning of My Communication
  • Percy the Pot
  • Sophie Learns a Lesson
  • The Cookery Book Game
  • If in Doubt – Delegate!
  • Our Deepest Fear
  • The Enormous Turnip
  • Memorandum
  • Mother and the Knife Grinder
  • The Moth and the Star
  • Waste Paper
  • Keeping Body and Soul Together
  • ‘There Is No Such Thing as a “Difficult Delegate”’
  • Alice Meets the Cheshire Cat
  • Setting the World on Fire
  • The Sun and the Wind
  • Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
  • ‘Did I Tell You the One About…?’
  • The Ball of Wool
  • The Project
  • The Prince and the Magician
  • Giant Steps
  • The Prophet
  • The Professionals
  • The Miller, His Son and Their Donkey
  • Leave Well Alone
  • The Horse on the Road
  • The Wedgwood China Shop
  • The Pirate Ship
  • Lessons from the Geese
  • The ‘Correct’ Procedure
  • John’s Tale
  • Role Play
  • How the Waters Changed
  • Rodney’s Tale
  • A Leader’s Prayer
  • ‘Just a Bod’
  • Fitness for the Purpose
  • All Those Buns!
  • Six Honest Serving-Men
  • Houdini and the Locked Door
  • Revolution in Your Mind
  • The Tortoise and the Hare Revisited
  • ‘Thank You for the Smile’
  • The Parable of the Sower and the Seed
  • Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say
  • Atlas’ Tale
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Further information
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