Challenge & Selection

The tool I selected is storytelling; since I used to work giving tours on my college, and to keep  the future students, many of them not knowing what to study or what college should they  select, storytelling was a nice tool to make them know how things might be like or to reduce  their doubts. Sharing stories with future college students often also helped me to inspire  myself and remember what I am studying for, and hopefully I had inspired some people to  study too. A lot of times they are not even sure. Sometimes some students win challenges or  stuff like that, and get time in the college as a reward, in which they get to know the place and  most than other things work on the laboratories, which is a good way to help them decide  their future careers regardless the college they choose, since that is more valuable; using my  experience to help them to manage themselves in the area and process taken on it. Their  feedback is something useful, since it helps to develop more strategies to get their attention,  which can also be obtainable by asking them to tell stories about their experience in other  tours, which might lead to an improvement in helping people to choose their careers.

Application

I do not have any story of storytelling in particular, but there is one that I would like to address  on this section, since I am not in a college from the first world, we don’t have the last  equipment on the laboratories, and almost all the resources go to the investigation area, so we  even have to work with expired reagents, and sometimes the equipment stops working or  doesn’t work correctly, even with that we manage to make things work, since one teacher  once told me that in the laboratories I might get to work they wouldn’t have last model  equipment, but the important thing is to know how they work, learn how to use them and  what are they for, and make the best you can with the things you have, I’ve been trying my  best to keep up with the work on there until the pandemic started, but even with problems  like this we’ve managed to keep working on the laboratory, with things as online tours or going  to the laboratory to broadcast a laboratory class. The point of this stories is to do everything  you can even with limited resources, it might help you in the future, teach you how to manage  better the things you got and be better on many aspects. Telling this to students also helped  them to get to know the current situation not only of my college, but of my country, and how  to improve with the resources they have, and to choose a career.

Insight & Approach

After all I have told, I can tell that it’s been helpful on some ways, such as interviews for works,  or training new interns, knowing what to tell them and how to help them, using stories to help  them understand how thinks works and make them know things that might be useful in their  futures; also getting to know more people has been great to develop more ways to attract  their interest, something that might be helpful on developing new stories. The best thing of  having interns is also getting someone that can help you in your work, and overall, that getting  to know someone who can also tell you stories to improve yourself and make things better,  because sometimes a story even can help to cheer up someone, or to help them realize the  importance of their work.

I think that some stories might have a greater impact than the teller think they have, but it  depends on many factors, such as how and when it is told, and what is the listener thinking on  that moment.

An alternative approach could be visualization, this way we could figure out problems just by  thinking of them, and give some solutions based on that, both approaches could be used  together, since sometimes story telling goal is to teach and help to make that the history does  not repeat itself.

I am still studying, and I think that stories have an effect not only on our personal life, but in  our careers and how we manage to keep going every day.


Challenge & Selection The tool I selected is storytelling ; since I used to work giving tours on my college , and to keep the future students , many of them not knowing what to study or what college should they select , storytelling was a nice tool to make them know how things might be like or to reduce their doubts . Sharing stories with future college students often also helped me to inspire myself and remember what I am studying for , and hopefully I had inspired some people to study too . A lot of times they are not even sure . Sometimes some students win challenges or stuff like that , and get time in the college as a reward , in which they get to know the place and most than other things work on the laboratories , which is a good way to help them decide their future careers regardless the college they choose , since that is more valuable ; using my experience to help them to manage themselves in the area and process taken on it . Their feedback is something useful , since it helps to develop more strategies to get their attention , which can also be obtainable by asking them to tell stories about their experience in other tours , which might lead to an improvement in helping people to choose their careers . Application I do not have any story of storytelling in particular , but there is one that I would like to address on this section , since I am not in a college from the first world , we do n’t have the last equipment on the laboratories , and almost all the resources go to the investigation area , so we even have to work with expired reagents , and sometimes the equipment stops working or does n’t work correctly , even with that we manage to make things work , since one teacher once told me that in the laboratories I might get to work they would n’t have last model equipment , but the important thing is to know how they work , learn how to use them and what are they for , and make the best you can with the things you have , I ’ve been trying my best to keep up with the work on there until the pandemic started , but even with problems like this we ’ve managed to keep working on the laboratory , with things as online tours or going to the laboratory to broadcast a laboratory class . The point of this stories is to do everything you can even with limited resources , it might help you in the future , teach you how to manage better the things you got and be better on many aspects . Telling this to students also helped them to get to know the current situation not only of my college , but of my country , and how to improve with the resources they have , and to choose a career . Insight & Approach After all I have told , I can tell that it ’s been helpful on some ways , such as interviews for works , or training new interns , knowing what to tell them and how to help them , using stories to help them understand how thinks works and make them know things that might be useful in their futures ; also getting to know more people has been great to develop more ways to attract their interest , something that might be helpful on developing new stories . The best thing of having interns is also getting someone that can help you in your work , and overall , that getting to know someone who can also tell you stories to improve yourself and make things better , because sometimes a story even can help to cheer up someone , or to help them realize the importance of their work . I think that some stories might have a greater impact than the teller think they have , but it depends on many factors , such as how and when it is told , and what is the listener thinking on that moment . An alternative approach could be visualization , this way we could figure out problems just by thinking of them , and give some solutions based on that , both approaches could be used together , since sometimes story telling goal is to teach and help to make that the history does not repeat itself . I am still studying , and I think that stories have an effect not only on our personal life , but in our careers and how we manage to keep going every day .