Storytelling Reflection

Challenge

I am a member of a club of my university. In the very beginning of the fresher’s semester, we  recruit member for the club. As our university is not as popular, the students stay demotivated and  fails to come forward and engage themselves in co-curricular activities. So every year for  motivating them to come forward and work hard from wherever they are studying we have to take  many initiatives. For this every year we arrange seminars and other discussions to engage them to  motivate them.

Selection

For motivating we, the members of the club arrange some events to engage them in different co- curricular activities. Storytelling is a tool where we can help them clearly image where they will  be able to reach if they work hard from the very beginning. It is not only about giving the  information. It’s about what was the problem, how they got into it and above all how they manage  to come forward from these situations and reach the peak. It helps one to picture the whole  information along with getting the emotion. That’s why storytelling was selected.

Application

I talked about many of ours alumni who has reached the peak of success as well as some persons  who could never get there. I started with the positive side first. I talked about three alumni of our  university who is gaining success in their professional life. Their background where they came  from, how they managed to keep up with the pace of students with more facilities, how they  achieved both institutional grade and  co-curricular outcomes all of these things were discussed at  first. So then the students could can compare themselves with those persons. Then their story of  success was told so that the students think that they will also be able to achieve that kind of success.  By this way they was easily motivated. That talking motivate themselves to come forward from  their position and work hand and also to engage themselves in some co-curricular activities. Then  some of average person’s story was told to give them the right direction to walk. So that they don’t  forget their way.

Insight & Approach

The result we got from the fresher’s was very supportive. Their demotivated was almost gone and  they wanted to work hard from their position. We took feedback from them and almost all of them  were positive about their future and the clear idea about the importance of co-curricular activities.  So they started to join the club. This tool storytelling worked very well in this particular job.

We, the members of the club discussed about the tool and further come up with the idea to use this  tool every year to help the fresher.

