Peer Graded Assignment

Challenge & Selection

Story telling is a very powerful tool. An interesting story gain the attention of its listeners, and when  the listeners pay attention, they surely learn something from it. An impressive story can boost  someone confidence and take someone imagination and dreams to the next level.

I work with team of developers. Most of them are from less standard universities. They have a lack  of confidence and they fear from errors and mistakes. Most of the time when they make a mistake,  they left the work and declare that they should leave that job and they cannot do nothing. They  think they cannot achieve in life etc. Most of them are the ones who have dealt with domination and  maladjusted in every stage of lives, they must be endowed and motivation is a path to endowment.  At those times, me with my partner, try to share some stories of our past work that how do we came  at this level. When we share our stories and our bad experiences to such kind of people, it boost  their confidence and moral that these are people like us, if they can achieve it then we can also  achieve it. That’s the best part of the story telling. Motivation is the core of storytelling. Your story  must be strong enough to motivate at least one individual and you have done your part.

Application

I have a story to tell about usage of storytelling, how I make it work for someone. I was leading a  project. A development of software. Where I have to incorporate new juniors who had very less  experience of programming and development. I was already explaining the management that we  have to show some confidence in them to boost their motivation and moral so that they put their  best efforts. Appreciation is the foremost requirement of healthy working environment.  Appreciation and showing confidence can make a non-skilled person a very good professional. We  can rely on a person who is motivated to learn no matter if he or she is not yet skilled. Basically a  small software house work closely with its employees. Normally a boss sits very close to the  developers. This makes a very tight environment to work with. One day I came to the office and I see  that one of the developer was deciding to leave the job. When I asked the reason of doing so, he  said that he is getting too many errors, this work is beyond his capabilities and he should leave.  While other developers were trying to get things done.

Insight & Approach

This was very shocking and surprising for me that due to temporary bugs and errors, this guy was  destroying his career, because where ever he will go, he will face the same issues, so it’s better to  learn how to face them, instead of how to avoid them. Then I told him the story of computer  networking course assignment. I told him I didn’t know about coding. I was too depressed that how I  am going to do that and how my friends left me alone in this work. I told him how I took help from  seniors, worked day and night to overcome coding skills deficiency, and submitted my work on time  alone with help and guidance of seniors. After listening this story, the guy sat still for a while. After  that he gave a positive smile and told me that he is going to try again and again until it is get done.

I also shared this story in workshops and I guess it make a very significant impression on people  professional lives. Work environment have to be reformed and the developers must be given a free

relax environment where they can work in their own style and show productivity. A little piece of  motivational story can a novice one to professional one.

Design thinking in business innovation has sparked a new dimension in my thinking process. Now I  analyze situations more positively rather than negatively. I think more optimistic and make  motivational stories to move forward the concept and idea of positivity in society as well.

I have done BS Computer Science, had worked as a programmer, now I am into business side,  helping companies to establish. Spreading the design thinking knowledge in the field of business is  one of my motivation now.

