Example Reflection – Storytelling 

 Challenge & Selection 

 Storytelling is a great tool and an integral aspect of being a good leader . Whether you ’re coaching your   project team , representing your team and their projects to executive stakeholders , or communicating   with external and internal customers you often achieve success through the stories you tell . Here are   some reasons why stories matter for leading project teams , and why I use it all the time : 

 1 . Coaching project team   2 . Pitching new projects   3 . Making executive - level presentations   4 . Creating project team brand 

 Application 

 The good news here is this : Everyone loves a story . We just have to find a way to tell ours . One effective   storyteller mode is drawing on our experience . For example , an experienced IT contractor once told me   that you work with the same people every place you go . Their faces change . Their names change , the   place changes . But they ’re basically the same people . This story taught me to approach people and   situations based on my experience of dealing with similar people and situations in the past . 

 Here 's chalking some points how I use it : 

 1 . Speak from experience . 

 2 . Practice my stories and solicit feedback from a trusted advisor , mentor , team member , manager , 

 friend , etc . , before I tell it my teammates . 

 3 . Use my retrospectives and postmortems as source materials for my stories . 

 4 . Stay well informed . Read industry blogs , business books and talk to others in my industry . 

 Telling an effective story can come from outside our experience . If we do n’t have the experience , find a   similar one from reading business books or industry blog posts and we ’ve our story with “ I read how one   of our fellow project managers solved a similar problem . ” 

 Once my team was struggling to resolve a user story as it was complicated and none of the team   members had experience of resolving the same . As the deadline was approaching team morale went   downwards as they could n’t find any solution . 

 Insight & Approach 

 I used the same trick of applying industry blog post story for maintaining the equilibrium . As the team   found that everybody can be in a soup but what best they can do they can try to find the best way out ,   team got motivated again . 

 Sometimes a little story can have great impact . When you can share stories about your experience , and   encourage your team members to do so as well , everyone can find a solution in the war stories . It ’s not   about having a team story hour at each team stand up . It ’s about being able to tell the story of a   previous projects or share similar story from industry blogs . 

 This course helped me to see this as a more effective tool in a new way . It will definitely help me to   prepare ahead and think of stories that will assist me in presenting my ideas and best illuminate them . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Example Reflection – Storytelling 

 Challenge & Selection 

 Storytelling is a great tool and an integral aspect of being a good leader . Whether you ’re coaching your   project team , representing your team and their projects to executive stakeholders , or communicating   with external and internal customers you often achieve success through the stories you tell . Here are   some reasons why stories matter for leading project teams , and why I use it all the time : 

 1 . Coaching project team   2 . Pitching new projects   3 . Making executive - level presentations   4 . Creating project team brand 

 Application 

 The good news here is this : Everyone loves a story . We just have to find a way to tell ours . One effective   storyteller mode is drawing on our experience . For example , an experienced IT contractor once told me   that you work with the same people every place you go . Their faces change . Their names change , the   place changes . But they ’re basically the same people . This story taught me to approach people and   situations based on my experience of dealing with similar people and situations in the past . 

 Here 's chalking some points how I use it : 

 1 . Speak from experience . 

 2 . Practice my stories and solicit feedback from a trusted advisor , mentor , team member , manager , 

 friend , etc . , before I tell it my teammates . 

 3 . Use my retrospectives and postmortems as source materials for my stories . 

 4 . Stay well informed . Read industry blogs , business books and talk to others in my industry . 

 Telling an effective story can come from outside our experience . If we do n’t have the experience , find a   similar one from reading business books or industry blog posts and we ’ve our story with “ I read how one   of our fellow project managers solved a similar problem . ” 

 Once my team was struggling to resolve a user story as it was complicated and none of the team   members had experience of resolving the same . As the deadline was approaching team morale went   downwards as they could n’t find any solution . 

 Insight & Approach 

 I used the same trick of applying industry blog post story for maintaining the equilibrium . As the team   found that everybody can be in a soup but what best they can do they can try to find the best way out ,   team got motivated again . 

 Sometimes a little story can have great impact . When you can share stories about your experience , and   encourage your team members to do so as well , everyone can find a solution in the war stories . It ’s not   about having a team story hour at each team stand up . It ’s about being able to tell the story of a   previous projects or share similar story from industry blogs . 

 This course helped me to see this as a more effective tool in a new way . It will definitely help me to   prepare ahead and think of stories that will assist me in presenting my ideas and best illuminate them .
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