Influencing through stories (for Agile Coaches)
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SELECTING – THE ANNECDOTES THAT MADE THE
STORYLINE..
CONNECTING – THE PRINCIPLE THAT THE FEW DEGREE BODY
ANGLE MATTERED THE MOST TO BECOME A WORLD
CHAMPION
RELATING – HELP SEE AND OVERCOME GAPS FOR EFFECTIVE
COACHING
WHY TELL STORIES - 1
• Impact on mind – stories put whole brain to work..
• Stories help pass the your beliefs on the topic with the impact that it had on
you
• Holistic learning happens at multiple levels
• Principle level – Why we do something
• Concept level – what is the theory behind
• Practice level – How it is to be performed
WHY TELL STORIES - 2
• Most great teachers – both ancient and contemporary, pass
timeless truths through stories. It is part of our eastern culture
and especially Indian as well
• Jesus Christ – real life instances, objects
• Vivekananda – a story of old carpenter
WHERE CAN WE USE STORIES
• Training sessions
• Stories making things lively
• Retrospectives
• When Tsunami hit Indian coast, two key questions – why did we not predict, why are we not
prepared?
• Formal Individual interactions
• Reinforcing views
• Team sessions
PREPARING FOR STORY TELLING
• Observe real world and correlate to real life
• Thinking of outcome and picking the story
• Preparing the opening statements – invoking curiosity
• “Once upon a time” start
• Start from a middle
• Stating the end and starting
• Deciding how to derive the outcome
• A set of questions that would prompt people to tell the outcome
• Driven as part of the story itself
• Writing a narrative script, practicing
THINK OF STORIES FOR THESE..
Working product
Customer collaboration
Working together – pair programming
Collaboration
Stories breakdown
Feedback cycle
Visibility
Vision
Retrospective
Cultural change takes time
Don’t fret. Think of your problems first
Focus on what can be controlled
Being focused
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