Storytelling

Challenge and Selection  When one is interacting with a set of strangers, there is always this problem of establishing  a connecting with them. Since the two parties are not acquainted with each other, it  becomes difficult for them to understand each other without a point of reference. That is  where storytelling comes into picture. It is easiest way to bond with people you have never  met before. People relate to stories. You give them one and you’ve got yourself an  interested audience willing to listen to what you have to say further. I would say that  storytelling can form an efficient basis of establishing a relationship with someone new.     Application  When I was in college, we used to have a lot of presentation events where we would go to  different colleges and explain a chosen topic in front of an audience. The genre of the topics  usually used to be technical and the audience would be bored through half the  presentations scheduled for the day. This is where storytelling came to my rescue. I got up  on the stage and talked about being lazy. The thing is everyone related to being lazy at one  point or the other. Now, I had established a point of common notion by starting with  storytelling. I related parts of this story with how we could use the technology and bam, I  had an audience who was not only listening to me but also was interested in what I was  telling.     Insight     I got excellent results with the use of my story in the presentation. I was able to connect  with the audience. It would be safe to say that this approach was a great technique to  achieve whatever I had wanted.     So, yes, I agree that a little story can do a lot of good.     Approach    Though I have to say that the story telling too worked effectively, I think the combination of  using one or more tools like these together would result in a better result.    For example, had I combined the storytelling aspect along with the visualization tool, I think  I would have garnered more response. I would have reached a broader audience perhaps. I  would definitely like to try the use of two tools together in the future.

