Challenge & Selection:

I work with people who are talented software engineers from renowned educational institutions and  joined corporate organizations. They are quite good academically and tasted mostly success in life, have  huge dreams and expectations from life and want all the things in quickly. Once they join the corporate  environment, they face both success and failures. If things go well in a projects, they are quite cheerful  however when things start breaking down they get panicked easily. When some project end in total  failure only few can handle it gracefully and can bounce back but many get depressed.

Storytelling is a powerful tool that I use from time to time to inspire these people to cope-up with  failures and help them to them gear up for next new opportunity. I share stories of my disappointments  in life and how I learnt my lessons from them. This helps them to open up and share details about their  current mental situation. Use this to data to understand their problems and solve them so that they can  get inspired and start with new vigor in projects by shredding of their depressions.

Application:

While working for a software engineering project for a bank I was trying to make the team members  understand that they need to work as a cohesive unit with total collaboration between themselves and  how they can use past experiences in a positive way only. I told them the story of an earlier project for a  telecom client I had worked. There most of my team members were doing well but 1 key individual who  was quite talented otherwise was trying to deflect most work coming his way. He used to find out and  highlight faults in other team members work in an unsolicited manner even if the work was unfinished.  This caused some friction and tension within the team, so I had to sit down with this person separately  to understand what the problem was. As I discussed with the person jovially it came out that the last  project in which he was working failed and he got the majority of the blame for the failure which made  him really upset mentally. So he made it point to highlight the problems of all other team members he is  working with in his next project from the start itself.

Insight & Approach:

So this made things clear for me and I was able to understand the reason behind this persons awkward  behavior. Now I shared the stories of my failures in work with him and also advised him what learnings I  got from them and how I put them to use for future projects. This resonated well with the person and  he was able to understand his mistake and corrected himself and he became a true team player as a  result of which all frictions and tensions with rest of the team was mitigated.

This story had a good impact on the team members on the banking project and they were clear on the  idea of working as a complete cohesive unit and acted accordingly helping each others.

After going through this course I got the confidence to use Storytelling in a more systematic way by  preparing them early as per situational demands rather than in an adhoc manner and hope that will help  me for my future endeavors.


Challenge & Selection : I work with people who are talented software engineers from renowned educational institutions and joined corporate organizations . They are quite good academically and tasted mostly success in life , have huge dreams and expectations from life and want all the things in quickly . Once they join the corporate environment , they face both success and failures . If things go well in a projects , they are quite cheerful however when things start breaking down they get panicked easily . When some project end in total failure only few can handle it gracefully and can bounce back but many get depressed . Storytelling is a powerful tool that I use from time to time to inspire these people to cope - up with failures and help them to them gear up for next new opportunity . I share stories of my disappointments in life and how I learnt my lessons from them . This helps them to open up and share details about their current mental situation . Use this to data to understand their problems and solve them so that they can get inspired and start with new vigor in projects by shredding of their depressions . Application : While working for a software engineering project for a bank I was trying to make the team members understand that they need to work as a cohesive unit with total collaboration between themselves and how they can use past experiences in a positive way only . I told them the story of an earlier project for a telecom client I had worked . There most of my team members were doing well but 1 key individual who was quite talented otherwise was trying to deflect most work coming his way . He used to find out and highlight faults in other team members work in an unsolicited manner even if the work was unfinished . This caused some friction and tension within the team , so I had to sit down with this person separately to understand what the problem was . As I discussed with the person jovially it came out that the last project in which he was working failed and he got the majority of the blame for the failure which made him really upset mentally . So he made it point to highlight the problems of all other team members he is working with in his next project from the start itself . Insight & Approach : So this made things clear for me and I was able to understand the reason behind this persons awkward behavior . Now I shared the stories of my failures in work with him and also advised him what learnings I got from them and how I put them to use for future projects . This resonated well with the person and he was able to understand his mistake and corrected himself and he became a true team player as a result of which all frictions and tensions with rest of the team was mitigated . This story had a good impact on the team members on the banking project and they were clear on the idea of working as a complete cohesive unit and acted accordingly helping each others . After going through this course I got the confidence to use Storytelling in a more systematic way by preparing them early as per situational demands rather than in an adhoc manner and hope that will help me for my future endeavors .