Reflection - Storytelling

Challenge & Selection

The tool of storytelling is the tool of communicating new ideas or product development,

storytelling can even be used to inspired young to senior individuals. Our peers can connect

through storytelling in a sense of opening up and creating a conversation it can be innovative

ideas, personal experience or a story they heard when these individuals was a child that still

empowers him/her as young adults. Working with seniors or interacting with any seniors outside

work can lead to storytelling where these seniors would feel vulnerable to open up to the

younger generations about their past experience or the current situation, they are in because of

past experience.

This story can now assist the younger individual to picture themselves and aligned the story or

the feedback to their goals, I would generally use this technique to wow my colleagues which

can lead to creating a cause for the idea or to potentially assist my colleagues in solving a

problem that is troublesome. However, storytelling can lead to a person feeling unsure or

uncertain of the next step they should align or take if questions are not being answered by the

person. A person who shares their story must be captivating since people would listen to the

message or advice regardless of the intent of the story and provide empowerment, motivation or

inspiration to those who are listening.

Application

Recently, I have told my teammates a story by implementing storytelling. In assisting my

colleagues in a group project where we had to establish a business plan for a startup business, I

was trying to explain the fundamental of starting a project by establishing who would take the

lead on the project and everyone would need to communicate with each other if they happen to

get stuck on the given task. Even talking about my past experience with these types of projects

on how I would be the one to take up the slack in finished the project by myself since the

teammates I also get paired with never seemed to have an interest, or they would never come

to an agreement on who would complete the different tasks to complete the project or even

argue over minor bumps along the way of finishing the projects. One of the colleague's brought

up a past experience of having a failed business due to not planning properly enough to achieve

his goals within his business.

I further went on to relate a story of business planning of a good friend who had open a

business, where she purchased different products of makeup wholesale and would sell these

products back to her customers retail, her business was full of ideas per her plans she made

before opening where after achieving a certain amount of customers she would expand her

business and purchase more products of different brands. Eventually, she did not have enough

funds to manage her business due to her mishap of managing the business and came to me for

assistance in managing her small business, we tried using a different technique such as SWOT

and PESTLE to examine the environment of her business and what was affecting the business,

I also advise her to look through her financial to notice where investments can be allocated but

she wasn’t patient enough and opted for a friend to buy half of her business.

Not too long after they both did not agree or predicted the same achievement for the business

due to different mindsets and both had a different target set for this small business and ended

up failing.

Insight & Approach

By opening up about my friends' story really made a difference to my teammates, this jolting

story caused my colleagues to re-evaluate the steps they both wanted to take when it came to

business planning. The fear of having a failing business plan resulted in both my teammates

conducting external and internal analyzes on the environment to confirm that this sector was the

right one and what threats or strength we had against the competitors. Having done all these

analyzes we had determined the results and began on making plans on the methods that should

be used to attain the goals, financial projections, organization background and most importantly

the goal to be obtained.

Storytelling improved our communication and allowed each teammate to have a conversation or

expressed their opinion on what we should include in the project. It also demonstrated before

starting a business we need to choose a sector and apply different tools to analyze the

environment around the business to determine potential threats, weakness or the environmental

factor affecting the business and while exploring these factors we can decide if it is the right

sector to start our business.

Since discovering storytelling has such a positive impact on our peers or even individuals I

interacted with daily, I have decided to prepare myself and listen to other people and assist

them with a story that I have heard or a story of my past experience since it can create value to

someone and even resolve problems.

Because of storytelling, I am now able to have more disruptive ideas for my business and it has

become a strong point for me by listening and communicating to people around me such as

seniors and adults.


Reflection - Storytelling Challenge & Selection The tool of storytelling is the tool of communicating new ideas or product development , storytelling can even be used to inspired young to senior individuals . Our peers can connect through storytelling in a sense of opening up and creating a conversation it can be innovative ideas , personal experience or a story they heard when these individuals was a child that still empowers him / her as young adults . Working with seniors or interacting with any seniors outside work can lead to storytelling where these seniors would feel vulnerable to open up to the younger generations about their past experience or the current situation , they are in because of past experience . This story can now assist the younger individual to picture themselves and aligned the story or the feedback to their goals , I would generally use this technique to wow my colleagues which can lead to creating a cause for the idea or to potentially assist my colleagues in solving a problem that is troublesome . However , storytelling can lead to a person feeling unsure or uncertain of the next step they should align or take if questions are not being answered by the person . A person who shares their story must be captivating since people would listen to the message or advice regardless of the intent of the story and provide empowerment , motivation or inspiration to those who are listening . Application Recently , I have told my teammates a story by implementing storytelling . In assisting my colleagues in a group project where we had to establish a business plan for a startup business , I was trying to explain the fundamental of starting a project by establishing who would take the lead on the project and everyone would need to communicate with each other if they happen to get stuck on the given task . Even talking about my past experience with these types of projects on how I would be the one to take up the slack in finished the project by myself since the teammates I also get paired with never seemed to have an interest , or they would never come to an agreement on who would complete the different tasks to complete the project or even argue over minor bumps along the way of finishing the projects . One of the colleague 's brought up a past experience of having a failed business due to not planning properly enough to achieve his goals within his business . I further went on to relate a story of business planning of a good friend who had open a business , where she purchased different products of makeup wholesale and would sell these products back to her customers retail , her business was full of ideas per her plans she made before opening where after achieving a certain amount of customers she would expand her business and purchase more products of different brands . Eventually , she did not have enough funds to manage her business due to her mishap of managing the business and came to me for assistance in managing her small business , we tried using a different technique such as SWOT and PESTLE to examine the environment of her business and what was affecting the business , I also advise her to look through her financial to notice where investments can be allocated but she was n’t patient enough and opted for a friend to buy half of her business . Not too long after they both did not agree or predicted the same achievement for the business due to different mindsets and both had a different target set for this small business and ended up failing . Insight & Approach By opening up about my friends ' story really made a difference to my teammates , this jolting story caused my colleagues to re - evaluate the steps they both wanted to take when it came to business planning . The fear of having a failing business plan resulted in both my teammates conducting external and internal analyzes on the environment to confirm that this sector was the right one and what threats or strength we had against the competitors . Having done all these analyzes we had determined the results and began on making plans on the methods that should be used to attain the goals , financial projections , organization background and most importantly the goal to be obtained . Storytelling improved our communication and allowed each teammate to have a conversation or expressed their opinion on what we should include in the project . It also demonstrated before starting a business we need to choose a sector and apply different tools to analyze the environment around the business to determine potential threats , weakness or the environmental factor affecting the business and while exploring these factors we can decide if it is the right sector to start our business . Since discovering storytelling has such a positive impact on our peers or even individuals I interacted with daily , I have decided to prepare myself and listen to other people and assist them with a story that I have heard or a story of my past experience since it can create value to someone and even resolve problems . Because of storytelling , I am now able to have more disruptive ideas for my business and it has become a strong point for me by listening and communicating to people around me such as seniors and adults .