Reflection – Storytelling

Challenges

As a senior financial employee that started in young age working from fresh graduate I went through  many challenges with my colleague and managers through the years. There were a lot of differences  such as age, educational background and not taking my opinion and suggestion seriously especially by  older age colleagues who are not welcoming working with new technologies, techniques and anything  outside their comfortable zone.

Selection

In my opinion, using storytelling tool is a great way to understand, deliver, discuss and present approach  the it preferred for most of people. It can clearly and simply deliver and clarify your thoughts,  suggestions and opinions in an easy and clear picture that your audience for example my colleague and  manager would understand, negotiate and accept by showing them all the challenge aspects and at the  same time smoothly moving between problems and solutions.

Application

Moving my team to work with 100% automating reports was my big challenge yet biggest proud that I  applied and enhance in my department. I showed them through storytelling tool the benefit of using  system in stead of manual reporting is magnificently saving huge time and efforts and result in having  zero errors, up to date reports which will result in giving us enough and generous time to do out analysis  and recommendation which increase the efficiently big times.

I prepared a one part of the reports which we used to work in for a week and show them in an informal  meeting with very friendly environment and atmosphere and show them how by one click the system  can prepare this part of the report and with option of choosing the colors and designs for the reports  and reflecting numbers onto dashboards that will be easy to read and for quick presenting and decision  making.

Insight

Wow and claps, that were the results I got from my colleagues who really like and were interested to  see how this small automated sample can be reflected on the whole work and how easy and efficiently  the work will turn giving us the time to focus on other projects and time to enhance our skills and  abilities in creating reports in the system.

Approach

Telling the story of this huge changes is now a great way for continuously suggesting and improving not  only the regular routine work, but at the same time we implement this to our daily life which result in  better approaching meeting, training and work operating.

