My Reflection – Storytelling 

 Challenge & Selection 

 I ’m an Industrial and Systems Engineering student . Storytelling is a tool I use quite 

 frequently , for all my work , homework and basically in all of my tasks . Since the pandemic of 

 COVID-19 started , all of my work has to be done from my house , like many students all 

 around the world . When this pandemic started I was in my junior year , but now I ’m in my 

 senior year , which is kind of sad not being around for my last days in person at school . I 

 study Industrial Engineering , and work mainly with organizational innovation systems this 

 year . Many of my topics are focused in simulation , evaluation of a system , applied enterprise 

 case studies and systems in general . I spend a lot of my time trying to propose new and 

 better ideas to solve the problems given , always trying to save as many resources as 

 possible , whether they are tangible or intangible . As time passed by , I realized the 

 importance of the involvement of the stakeholders . Often the stakeholders that are usually 

 excluded have some really important ideas , or ideas that the management team would have 

 never thought ; but why ? Well , mainly since these stakeholders are left behind because of 

 the position they have , where most of the time they belong to the working class , where they 

 have been working and doing the same thing for 5 to 10 years in a row . When you get used 

 to doing the same exact thing , it can be said that you become a master of that process , you 

 know mostly everything .      Application 

 I have many stories about implementing storytelling . One I really like was the one 

 with the resistance to change from the management team . In discussing how to improve the   productivity of the workers , and reduce the fatigue of the workers , I proposed the idea of   talking and asking directly to them , know what they need and how can we help them to feel   less tired . When I proposed this idea , many criticized me for being crazy , argumenting that   as a management team we know what they needed .       Many methods and many things were changed in order to improve the work quality , 

 such as a new design of working station the , redesign the layout , change the working 

 methods , change the working schedule , and many more ideas proposed were made . But the 

 results were still the same . 

 Knowing that thing in fact did not change , the straight approach with the workers was 

 imminent . When we talked with a selected group of workers , that were mainly the leaders of 

 different work groups , they all agreed on one thing , to change the light intensity in the 

 workplace , since it was pretty high and exhausted the sight of many workers . Such a simple 

 thing as the light changed the whole panorama of the fabric , and it was n’t a difficult task to 

 do . All we had to do was to do a storytelling of the process the workers do and just tell it like 

 a normal story , describing it from the beginning up to the end . It was as simple as just telling 

 a story . 

 Insight & Approach 

 Oh well , who would have thought it before ? Such a simple thing as changing the 

 lights would resolve the problem of inefficiency of the factory . There were many white lights 

 all around the workplace , more than necessary once we analyzed the request . When we 

 revised the series of standards of ergonomy , in fact the workers were completely right . When 

 the fabric was designed the management did n’t realize that they installed an excess of lights . 

 Finally , the level of productivity of the factory was able to increase and the workers 

 were more satisfied with their workstations . 

 I applied this same technique with other case studies in school and in my practice 

 job , where I simply make a storytelling with the stakeholders involved and evaluate the 

 possible options of change , how can the enterprise , the stakeholders , and mainly everybody 

 get a benefit from change . 

 This course allowed me to see even more the importance of applying different tools 

 of design thinking , making me see the problem or the situation with a new perspective . Also ,   it allowed me to make storytelling in a different approach , in a more efficient way . I ’m a future   engineer , and now I can see the importance of not only applying numbers and methods in   my job , but to also apply design thinking where it can be applied . 

 This course was really interesting and of great knowledge ! 


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: My Reflection – Storytelling 

 Challenge & Selection 

 I ’m an Industrial and Systems Engineering student . Storytelling is a tool I use quite 

 frequently , for all my work , homework and basically in all of my tasks . Since the pandemic of 

 COVID-19 started , all of my work has to be done from my house , like many students all 

 around the world . When this pandemic started I was in my junior year , but now I ’m in my 

 senior year , which is kind of sad not being around for my last days in person at school . I 

 study Industrial Engineering , and work mainly with organizational innovation systems this 

 year . Many of my topics are focused in simulation , evaluation of a system , applied enterprise 

 case studies and systems in general . I spend a lot of my time trying to propose new and 

 better ideas to solve the problems given , always trying to save as many resources as 

 possible , whether they are tangible or intangible . As time passed by , I realized the 

 importance of the involvement of the stakeholders . Often the stakeholders that are usually 

 excluded have some really important ideas , or ideas that the management team would have 

 never thought ; but why ? Well , mainly since these stakeholders are left behind because of 

 the position they have , where most of the time they belong to the working class , where they 

 have been working and doing the same thing for 5 to 10 years in a row . When you get used 

 to doing the same exact thing , it can be said that you become a master of that process , you 

 know mostly everything .      Application 

 I have many stories about implementing storytelling . One I really like was the one 

 with the resistance to change from the management team . In discussing how to improve the   productivity of the workers , and reduce the fatigue of the workers , I proposed the idea of   talking and asking directly to them , know what they need and how can we help them to feel   less tired . When I proposed this idea , many criticized me for being crazy , argumenting that   as a management team we know what they needed .       Many methods and many things were changed in order to improve the work quality , 

 such as a new design of working station the , redesign the layout , change the working 

 methods , change the working schedule , and many more ideas proposed were made . But the 

 results were still the same . 

 Knowing that thing in fact did not change , the straight approach with the workers was 

 imminent . When we talked with a selected group of workers , that were mainly the leaders of 

 different work groups , they all agreed on one thing , to change the light intensity in the 

 workplace , since it was pretty high and exhausted the sight of many workers . Such a simple 

 thing as the light changed the whole panorama of the fabric , and it was n’t a difficult task to 

 do . All we had to do was to do a storytelling of the process the workers do and just tell it like 

 a normal story , describing it from the beginning up to the end . It was as simple as just telling 

 a story . 

 Insight & Approach 

 Oh well , who would have thought it before ? Such a simple thing as changing the 

 lights would resolve the problem of inefficiency of the factory . There were many white lights 

 all around the workplace , more than necessary once we analyzed the request . When we 

 revised the series of standards of ergonomy , in fact the workers were completely right . When 

 the fabric was designed the management did n’t realize that they installed an excess of lights . 

 Finally , the level of productivity of the factory was able to increase and the workers 

 were more satisfied with their workstations . 

 I applied this same technique with other case studies in school and in my practice 

 job , where I simply make a storytelling with the stakeholders involved and evaluate the 

 possible options of change , how can the enterprise , the stakeholders , and mainly everybody 

 get a benefit from change . 

 This course allowed me to see even more the importance of applying different tools 

 of design thinking , making me see the problem or the situation with a new perspective . Also ,   it allowed me to make storytelling in a different approach , in a more efficient way . I ’m a future   engineer , and now I can see the importance of not only applying numbers and methods in   my job , but to also apply design thinking where it can be applied . 

 This course was really interesting and of great knowledge !
### Output: 