Reflection – Storytelling

Challenge

Recently I graduated from college, and I was looking for a job on management  consulting at one of the “Big Three”, to do so I needed to show to my interviewers that  I had what is needed to got a great performance on the job. I knew that I have what  was needed but I was not sure how to communicate it and I knew it was an important  part of the interview at strategic consulting.

Selection

I choose Storytelling tool because it was the best way that I can approach to the  situation I was facing up, for me Storytelling is a way to communicate to others the  way you see a situation and engage them to feel what you were feeling when you were  living the story, that way you ensure that they will remember and understand the whole  situation and what reasons you have to approach the way you did.

Application

When it came my first interview, I was nervous, but I stick to the Storytelling tool and  everything came good. Firstable I settled the situation, describing the context of the  story, then I told the interviewer what was the challenge I face and how I feel and react  to it, trying to emphasize the skills that I knew the company value the most. At the end  I told the interviewer how everything ended and what was the result of my participation  in the situation.

Insight

The most valuable thing that I found was that the way that you tell a story change the  whole context of the situation, you can transmit a lot of things thru good stories and  communicate on a way that change the perspective of the other person about an  specific situation.

Approach

When I will have to use the Storytelling tool again I will be more aware of how to select  every word and the way that a story can change depends on who is the listener of the  story, it is not the same tell a story to a friend that tell the same story to someone you  are trying to convince of doing something or to see you in a certain way.

