Storytelling

Challenge and selection

Storytelling is a great tool that I use all the time. Many of  these people deal with oppression and dysfunction in every  aspect of their lives, they need to be empowered and  inspiration is a path to empowerment. I spend a lot of time  “opening people up” and finding ways to inspire them to  improve their circumstances.

I am a member of human resources management  department of my company. I have five years’ work  experience. So, I decided to change my workplace to this  company. When I came to this company, the employees  welcomed me warmly but after one month later, I  understood that there was a problem to resolve.

One senior executive who is working for two years made  quarrels often with his peers in his department and they  complained to our department.  My senior manager asked  me to resolve this problem. So, I had to use my brain. This  workplace was not familiar for me because I was a  newcomer. I had done this course models and watched  videos so I decided to use one strategy in them. It is  storytelling.

Application

I invited her to a coffee shop and talked with her very  friendly as a peer not as a HR manager. I appreciated her

contribution for developing our company. As well, I  appreciated skills and good qualities of her. After that I asked  her the reason for quarrels. She told me her story. Her hobby  in her childhood was gossiping with friends. Because of that  she found others’ secrets and when met them she told she  knew their character. Unfortunately she could not control  her tongue in her workplace also.

Insight & Approach

I shared my childhood memory when I messed with my best  friend after heard a gossip.

When I was 16th years old, I heard some peers talked that my  best friend had hugged my boyfriend. I felt that my blood  boiling. I saw her in playground and ran away towards her  and slapped without hesitating. After that she was angry with  me and refused talking. My boyfriend told me clearly what  happened. My best friend was going to meet an accident and  he had saved her luckily and she had thanked him. I felt very  sad for her and I was angry with me. However I corrected my  mistake.

The executive agreed to correct her all mistakes and be a  good employee after hearing my story. She thanked me for  helping her and gave my time for her. This worked really well.  She really needed individual attention for that brief time, and  she ended up with that and a true support.

The problem solved and I became a famous HR manager in  our workplace.

