Challenge 

 To better and more efficiently meet the needs of our organization , our business , our stakeholders and   our people we recently re - organized our HR ( Human Resources ) department . The major change we   made was to integrate HR directly into the organization . We physically located ourselves as HR Business   Partners in the various departments . This appears to be a great move , because we have created a   direction towards becoming more business driven rather than business oriented .   However , this move   brought a surprising revelation that our employees had a lack of knowledge of what HR actually does .    Obviously to be able to create value for our organization and our stakeholders a critical need was to   provide knowledge of what HR brings to the table . What is HR ? What is our discipline , our value , our   delivery ? What does HR do for the employee ? 

 Selection 

 I pondered the notion of using one of the design thinking tools to best communicate the knowledge I   have of HR , and decided that storytelling would be an appropriate tool .    I believe stories really provide a beneficial context to convey knowledge , and we certainly needed to   create cause . Without cause as in “ what does HR do for me ? for our business ? ” , we would very much be   disabled to generate value . As stated by Juan Torres ( Storytelling Tool , week 2 , lesson 4 ) “ a cause is   something that ignites people , and unites people ” and establishing a cause was essential for a newly re- organized HR .   We were dependent on creating consensus of the value creation of HR to make the new   organization work . 

 Application 

 I built a narrative about the lifecycle of an employee in our organization and thereby made it possible to   take my audience on a somewhat familiar journey described from various perspectives ; from the HR   perspective , from an employee perspective and from the overall business perspective . I created a real   story describing   HR involvement from A to Z. From being present at a career fair at a university ,    catching interest of the promising student , thereby explaining the recruitment process , understanding   the tension of the candidate during the interviews ,   how we on boarded the new employee to our   organization , lack of management involvement , the discussions with our hierarchy on personnel   movements , career development etc . 

 I told a story of an employee , the challenges the employee faced in our organization and how we solved   the challenges . I also went into issues that were not handled well and allowed the audience to intervene   with issues they had faced themselves . Through telling this story I felt I was able to help my audience see   the necessary connections of what HR does , how we are involved with them , what I want to do as an HR   Business Partner for them , and they were able to voice their needs . 

 Insight 

 I really got to experience what a powerful and meaningful exercise storytelling can be . By identifying my   audiences ’ needs and bringing to their attention a sense of purpose was truly rewarding . I believe when   people were given the opportunity to identify themselves with the characters in my story , it made them 

 think about their own experiences and maybe even more importantly question their current and future   needs . By allowing myself and the audience to empathize with each other it enabled me to uncover their   needs and aspirations . I thereby was able to better position myself to cooperate and to build solutions   that benefit themselves and our organization . It allowed me to show engagement for my discipline and   for my audience . It allowed me to care and it allowed us all to share . 

 I experienced that the story activated emotions as the whole audience was familiar with parts of the   story . In fact they were and are the story . I am the story and our organization is the story , and by inviting   audience into my knowledge I am invited by them to envision the future together . 

 Approach 

 I am still mesmerized by the positive effect of turning an information session into a compelling story . By   finding a common ground for my audience and thereby capturing their attention has generated trust ,   credibility , cooperation , understanding and opportunities .   From being something diffuse and distant   people now see value and support . We better see each other and more importantly we more frequently   work towards a common goal . We want to see each other succeed . At this point I find it difficult to see a   different approach . However , I see a need to flip the coin and invite the audience to tell their story . I also   believe our organization could benefit from recognizing design thinking tools , hence I have turned this   story into a success story to promote and put design thinking on our business agenda . 


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: Challenge 

 To better and more efficiently meet the needs of our organization , our business , our stakeholders and   our people we recently re - organized our HR ( Human Resources ) department . The major change we   made was to integrate HR directly into the organization . We physically located ourselves as HR Business   Partners in the various departments . This appears to be a great move , because we have created a   direction towards becoming more business driven rather than business oriented .   However , this move   brought a surprising revelation that our employees had a lack of knowledge of what HR actually does .    Obviously to be able to create value for our organization and our stakeholders a critical need was to   provide knowledge of what HR brings to the table . What is HR ? What is our discipline , our value , our   delivery ? What does HR do for the employee ? 

 Selection 

 I pondered the notion of using one of the design thinking tools to best communicate the knowledge I   have of HR , and decided that storytelling would be an appropriate tool .    I believe stories really provide a beneficial context to convey knowledge , and we certainly needed to   create cause . Without cause as in “ what does HR do for me ? for our business ? ” , we would very much be   disabled to generate value . As stated by Juan Torres ( Storytelling Tool , week 2 , lesson 4 ) “ a cause is   something that ignites people , and unites people ” and establishing a cause was essential for a newly re- organized HR .   We were dependent on creating consensus of the value creation of HR to make the new   organization work . 

 Application 

 I built a narrative about the lifecycle of an employee in our organization and thereby made it possible to   take my audience on a somewhat familiar journey described from various perspectives ; from the HR   perspective , from an employee perspective and from the overall business perspective . I created a real   story describing   HR involvement from A to Z. From being present at a career fair at a university ,    catching interest of the promising student , thereby explaining the recruitment process , understanding   the tension of the candidate during the interviews ,   how we on boarded the new employee to our   organization , lack of management involvement , the discussions with our hierarchy on personnel   movements , career development etc . 

 I told a story of an employee , the challenges the employee faced in our organization and how we solved   the challenges . I also went into issues that were not handled well and allowed the audience to intervene   with issues they had faced themselves . Through telling this story I felt I was able to help my audience see   the necessary connections of what HR does , how we are involved with them , what I want to do as an HR   Business Partner for them , and they were able to voice their needs . 

 Insight 

 I really got to experience what a powerful and meaningful exercise storytelling can be . By identifying my   audiences ’ needs and bringing to their attention a sense of purpose was truly rewarding . I believe when   people were given the opportunity to identify themselves with the characters in my story , it made them 

 think about their own experiences and maybe even more importantly question their current and future   needs . By allowing myself and the audience to empathize with each other it enabled me to uncover their   needs and aspirations . I thereby was able to better position myself to cooperate and to build solutions   that benefit themselves and our organization . It allowed me to show engagement for my discipline and   for my audience . It allowed me to care and it allowed us all to share . 

 I experienced that the story activated emotions as the whole audience was familiar with parts of the   story . In fact they were and are the story . I am the story and our organization is the story , and by inviting   audience into my knowledge I am invited by them to envision the future together . 

 Approach 

 I am still mesmerized by the positive effect of turning an information session into a compelling story . By   finding a common ground for my audience and thereby capturing their attention has generated trust ,   credibility , cooperation , understanding and opportunities .   From being something diffuse and distant   people now see value and support . We better see each other and more importantly we more frequently   work towards a common goal . We want to see each other succeed . At this point I find it difficult to see a   different approach . However , I see a need to flip the coin and invite the audience to tell their story . I also   believe our organization could benefit from recognizing design thinking tools , hence I have turned this   story into a success story to promote and put design thinking on our business agenda .
### Output: 