Storytelling, A Design Tool I Use Everyday – Storytelling

A. Challenge & Impact

I have never know before that storytelling is one of design tools to deliver our insight  to the others. I believe we use storytelling almost every singe day in our life as we  socialize to another. Storytelling is usually been use to illustrate somebody’s or a  firm’s success in their own way. Regardless its important toward our argument or  ideas, sometime I find storytelling has some challenges to face. In order to make  people understand about someone’s story is not a easy way to do. I have to make sure  they know where the organization is. It’s not an necessary but it’s important to make  the story is in its own way, and there is no problem with that.

As one of design tools, storytelling has its important role to communicate and  socialize. I have ever seen myself when I told my colleagues about success story of an  organization, they look like excited and do not expect the walkthrough of the story  would be amazing. From this result, I believe storytelling impacts on their  understanding about the arguments or ideas.

B. Application

I am an university student who is currently pursuing bachelor degree. It gives me lot  of chances to meet new colleagues and build strong networking in the near future. I  use storytelling to visualize how people works and create something new. One of best  storytelling I have ever made is when I told my colleagues about NGOs here in my  country. I told them when the NGO was established, how do they face challenges,  raise fund and  build strong networking within them. I use their stories to visualize  how things going to be happened when we play same role or implementing valuable  things from them.

I use application not only to deliver someone’s success but also to visualize my plan  or idea. I tried to tell my colleagues how I get those ideas and its impact to the  organization. So it means I use storytelling not to just tell someone story but also of  my own.

C. Insight & Approach

When I deliver my ideas by storytelling, I use background and social approach to  make my story well. To make them understand what is inside my mind and make  same perspective of them, it is necessary for me to tell them story that they also  understand. I mean story that I deliver has to be understood by them to avoid  misunderstanding and boring when I deliver my story. I have to understand their  background, level of education, religious and sexual orientation also.

Overall this course gives me much of knowledge both theoretical and practical. I hope  there would be many advantages and benefits I get from this course to develop my  career and support my study in the future.

