Comments on: This Week in the World - a flair for the dramatic http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2007/08/28/this-week-in-the-world-a-flair-for-the-dramatic/ By Meryl Runion and SpeakStrong, Inc. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:23:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: merylrunion http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2007/08/28/this-week-in-the-world-a-flair-for-the-dramatic/#comment-1509 merylrunion Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:46:25 +0000 http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2007/08/28/this-week-in-the-world-a-flair-for-the-dramatic/#comment-1509 Yes, yes Ron, Helen is from the south. I moved to Nashville from Minneapolis when I was 11 and didn't know what hit me. Now, some decades later, I'm starting to decipher it all. Helen, I will say that it's on my list to tell the stories of how I adapt to people who are more literal than I am. I've found them challenging over the years as well! Thanks for your posts! Meryl Yes, yes Ron, Helen is from the south. I moved to Nashville from Minneapolis when I was 11 and didn’t know what hit me. Now, some decades later, I’m starting to decipher it all.

Helen, I will say that it’s on my list to tell the stories of how I adapt to people who are more literal than I am. I’ve found them challenging over the years as well!

Thanks for your posts!

Meryl

]]> By: Helen Wilkie http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2007/08/28/this-week-in-the-world-a-flair-for-the-dramatic/#comment-1501 Helen Wilkie Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:07:24 +0000 http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2007/08/28/this-week-in-the-world-a-flair-for-the-dramatic/#comment-1501 My name really is Helen, and I'm not the Helen in the story! In fact, I'm more the Meryl communication style. I have a friend who is a "drama queen", and I used to react by becoming less and less responsive, until I realized she had just as much right to her communication style as I had to mine. Reminding myself of that lets me enjoy my friend's company, much like your experience with "Helen", Meryl. As my mother used to tell me, it would be a boring old world if we were all the same! Helen Wilkie http://howtowriteabusinessletter.blogspot.com My name really is Helen, and I’m not the Helen in the story! In fact, I’m more the Meryl communication style. I have a friend who is a “drama queen”, and I used to react by becoming less and less responsive, until I realized she had just as much right to her communication style as I had to mine. Reminding myself of that lets me enjoy my friend’s company, much like your experience with “Helen”, Meryl. As my mother used to tell me, it would be a boring old world if we were all the same!

Helen Wilkie
http://howtowriteabusinessletter.blogspot.com

]]> By: Ron Pulliam http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2007/08/28/this-week-in-the-world-a-flair-for-the-dramatic/#comment-1493 Ron Pulliam Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:51:07 +0000 http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2007/08/28/this-week-in-the-world-a-flair-for-the-dramatic/#comment-1493 What a fun story. Had I but known, I'd have had some great fun with this at the San Francisco seminar I attended a few years back. Is Helen by any chance from the South? We southerners love to engage in overblown hyperbole. It adds a lot of flavor to some rather funny stories. I'm really happy you found a way to enjoy Helen! What a fun story. Had I but known, I’d have had some great fun with this at the San Francisco seminar I attended a few years back.

Is Helen by any chance from the South? We southerners love to engage in overblown hyperbole. It adds a lot of flavor to some rather funny stories.

I’m really happy you found a way to enjoy Helen!

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