Jose Garcia

Storytelling

Challenge & Selection

When I was in high school, one of my teacher told me that I was a great storyteller,

in that moment I did not understand what that means. Currently I am a student of

Administration in Balatas ES (Politecnico di Milano) and I realized

that my teacher was not wrong about me.

Nowadays I am in conflict with one of my college team. The main issue is that he is

zero empathic with people and situations, that is the cause of many problems

because the decisions that we have taken is becuse that kind of thinking, affecting

the others and seeing just for our benefit.

As a lider, I am trying to manage the team in a empathic direction, is not easy

because they really do not understand a diferent point of view of themself. That is

the reason why I am practicing the storytelling.

Application

I have been using storytelling more than before, when we are discussing about a

project, I always find a moment to use this tool. I start talking about a specific

situation of the project and then I connect that situacion with a personal one. I finish

the story making a personal reflection, in that way, they can understand very well

different point of views clearer than just go in a direction.

For example, the last session that we had was the last week, we were talking about

the diagnostic needs of training. It was a very hard topic because they propossed

some agressive techniques for the collaborators, when it was my turn to speak, I

commented my story with the training and how I felt about it, I recalled to them when

we were on a similar situation and how a lot of them felt so dissgusted, in that way,

we are working to do making better deccisions focus in a humanistic approach.

Jose Garcia

Insight & Approach.

The team now are thinking about how they felt when my teacher applied to us a lot

of questionnaires, interviews, etcetera. We were really tired and at the end of the

day, the results were not useful. Detect needs for training is a hard work, specially

when you are not part of the enviroment that you want to train. We are not thinking

about questionnaires or explicit interviews, we are relly want to be part of it, known

te process, the fomal and informal groups, how to do it and see how they are doing.

I really consider that this course going to helps me to do it definitly better. Now I am

aware about a lot of tools, attitudes, etcetera. I often think about myself as a

entrepenaur, Mexico's economy is about that, and now I realized that my creativity

is a key to do it.

