My Story Telling Experience

Challenge & Selection   Storytelling is a great tool that I use all the time. In my role, I act as a Business Relationship Manager and  every time I deal with my Business manager on one-side and Technology leaders on the other side. Both  this people have a different mindset to deal with. On one side the Business manager are more focused  on business objectives and they don’t really care about Technology and on the other side Technology  leaders are very obsessed with technology who needs to be empowered and inspired from time to time.

I spend a lot of time mentoring people on technology side and finding ways to inspire them to improve  their circumstances. When I work with Business leaders, we share stories for different reasons. Often  they are happy to share stories of their lives with me to connect and they find meaning in sharing these  experiences. I use their feedback against the context of my story to ascertain their goals, and sometimes  we use stories to better understand their interests and thought processes.

I use this information to develop different strategies, which might bring both the sides on common  page.

Application   I have a story about using storytelling. Technology requirement from business leaders shared very  briefly and they expect it to deliver as early as possible. On the other side technology leaders needs  more clarity to provide realistic timelines. Therefore, as a BRM I always make both the sides understand  the challenges on either side by some story telling.

Insight & Approach   For the business user I always try to listen more and link my story to give them understanding of the  efforts that will be required by IT and on the other side, I talk about Business urgency by making some  story on Business need that can have impact on our Business to deliver solution in Agile and quick way.

Listening to Business leader story and linking our story to their journey helps to build the repo and make  them realise the real effort that goes in developing something and sharing putting our IT expert in the  imagination of they generating impact on business value motivates them to achieve this goal with  excitement.

Simple stories sometime makes a big impact and story can be used for people to realize their own worth  and value others worth as well.  It’s a great tool that I always use in my day to day life to even mentor  people and motivate them

