Reflection - Storytelling

Challenge & Selection

I believe Storytelling is a good tool especially for kids. In my spare time, I work with cub scout, which has  boys from 6 years old to 10 years old. Some young kids are not mature yet, still like toddler, some kids’  personality is strange, and some big kids are making some joke to damage some facility staff. We need  to train them to follow cub scout law, spirit, and discipline, and also let them learn some simple skill in  wild. Encouragement and inspiration are the way to empower them. When I work with young kid, I tell a  story and ask them to give me feedback, through this way, we can teach young kids. When work with big  kids (8-10 years old), I share my old experience in my mind with them to encourage them to overcome  difficulty. Through this Storytelling, it creates understanding and trust, I can use the information I get to  develop different strategies for developing the way for cub scout kids growing up.

Application

For cub scout, once a year, we need to organize a popcorn booth sale.  I told stories to new cub scout  how last year other scout sale popcorn,  and encourage them to promote their products to potential  customers, to talk with people about their story to sell their popcorn. One old lady asked a scout how  much popcorn he planned to sell, the cub scout’s answer was creative, “$1000”.

Insight & Approach

“Wow”, the lady asked “why ”, the scout said because he wanted to win the gold award prize. “that is a  long way to go”, the lady said, and immediately called 4 of her friends to come to buy popcorn. By  applying Storytelling tool, I found my storytelling, the scout storytelling really works well, it did impact  people and generate good result.

The course make me realize, for any kind of situation, I need to prepare and think about some stories in  advance, and then use the story to present my idea and illuminate other people. Storytelling helps  communication and understanding, it will make all stakeholders quickly to come to same page, greatly  improved efficiency of resolving issues.

