Comments on: Storytelling An Effective Training Method!

By: selva lakshmi

selva lakshmi — Thu, 12 May 2011 09:12:16 +0000

As rightly said in this article, storytelling method will really cause a paradigm shift in the T & D effectiveness,as the traditional method of training create boredom for the employees.

By: Marjee Righeimer

Marjee Righeimer — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:28:58 +0000

Thanks for the great article. I am in the process of collecting stories about the mentoring experiences of thousands of people who have worked with us. One book I found really helpful was “Stories Trainers Tell” by Mary Wacker.

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By: Jesusita Mems

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By: gandhini

gandhini — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:19:50 +0000

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By: Jeffrey A. Bernstein PD MS

Jeffrey A. Bernstein PD MS — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:17:34 +0000

I taught for 12 years at Kent State (Math and Computer Science/Technology) and the students definitely enjoy a story, as long as you are not reading to them directly from the textbook. The interpretation is (by some) that Math is difficult enough and anything you can do you can do to make it better is a welcome relief.

For example, I would work “pharmacy” things into my lectures. Solving an equation, I would get to the step where 10x = 85, which I would read to them as, “10x (which is for blood pressure) equal 85″ and continue on like nothing happened. On a quiz or exam (for extra credit), I would ask them for the mathematical equivalent of a medication used for blood pressure; you would be surprised the number of students that received the extra credit.

Creating a computer program is really no different; you are telling the software a story to make the program accomplish a task. “Once upon a time…” is how some stories begin; so at the beginning of your program you haveq a section to declare variables, once. Functions and subroutines are chapters that tell a tale while performing work. The “end” of the story comes when the user gets whatever it is they want from the application.

Thanks!

Jeffrey

By: Hope Reynolds

Hope Reynolds — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:52:20 +0000

Mr. Newson-Ray
Jon:

- Your write up brought up some memories of when we were children and listened to the radio. My mother did not permit us to have TV because she said it “removed” imagination.

- Sherlock Holmes adventures were on every night at 8 PM and “The Hound of the Baskervilles” started with this very deep voice reading the title and in the background the howlin of wolves.

- Still to today, we can recite the start of the show… we can immitate the sounds of the hounds and as we tell stories to children, we use that powerful means of communications…

- Just the other night, a group of 10 kids were gathered for a birthday party and we asked them to close their eyes and told a story… filled with sounds… that they had to identify for us. These children were in the living room and from the kitchen, behind a wall so they could not see us, we would touch certain pots, knives, cutlery, glasses, etc. producing noises that they had to identify…

- The children had a blast! Now they want us to repeat the experience and told us that it was more fun than watching a movie…

- Story telling, prompting the imagination to take flight, eliminating all “noise” and allowing the senses to work… that is the magic of our most incredible gift… our minds!

By: Jon Newsom-Ray

Jon Newsom-Ray — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:13:56 +0000

Not sure if we undertake storytelling in the traditional sense when we are training but we do use examples of events from real life and anecdotes from business instances to make or emphasise a point. These are loosely all stories and work better than quoting text books at people or lecturing them in a dry academic way. The storytelling approach enables and allows comment and connection; promotes discussion. One person’s take on a story being different from the next persons.

There is something powerful about stories; our responses to them is deep and primal. In Marrakesh, North Africa, storytelling is an entertainment. People gather around in the market square at night to listen to the storyteller; the listener responds with deep concentration, enthralled by the experience. There is something in this that tells you that there is a business application to storytelling. The way we receive language stimulates our imagination, inspires us to think outside of the box. As someone once said ‘the best pictures are on the radio’.

By: Richard Kain

Richard Kain — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:55:13 +0000

Story Telling is linear and changing. It is not stagnant. The unknown is kept in context and leads to the enhancement of wonderment. Which in turns stimulates the curiosity of our being. If told right the key elements of every story is what leads to the retention by the participant.

By: Christine Christianson

Christine Christianson — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:40:21 +0000

When I was a student, I was always very interested in the professors’ stories that were sprinkled in with lessons. It not only made the lessons more memorable and relatable, it also made me understand a bit more about the human condition–we all have so much in common.