{"product_id":"the-art-of-worklife-storytelling-at-work","title":"The Art of WorkLife Storytelling at Work","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Art of WorkLife Storytelling at Work\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelping People Turn What Happened Into Stories That Build Trust, Share Learning and Show What Their Work Means\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery working day holds stories worth telling, and the ones that matter most are often the ones you would rather not tell, until you tell them completely: what went wrong, what went right and why it mattered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Art of WorkLife Storytelling at Work begins with a question Cillian Walsh can’t answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Story-Based Learning Resource: Cillian’s Story — From the Timeline to the Story\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCillian is a product lead at a company that builds the ticketing app for a regional rail operator. On a Tuesday morning, a major update went live, and for three hours at the height of the morning rush, thousands of passengers couldn’t buy a ticket. By lunchtime it was fixed. Three weeks from now, he will present what happened to the leadership team.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe obvious answer is a timeline and a list of fixes. He has written plenty of those before, and he knows how to make one look thorough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat he hasn’t yet examined is the story underneath it: what each person on his team saw that morning, what was missed and why, what the team did well under pressure, and why any of it matters to the people the app was built for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Art of WorkLife Storytelling at Work follows Cillian through the three weeks before that review. Through a question from his grandmother, five versions of the same morning, a warning nobody heard and a director who wants more than a timeline, he discovers that the account he was expected to give and the story that needs telling are very different, and that the second one has far more to offer his organisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlending storytelling with Reflection Points, Learning Questions, Self-Coaching Exercises and The Art of WorkLife Storytelling at Work Workbook, the resource guides each of your people through the same journey Cillian takes. It is designed for independent learning and for facilitator-supported group sessions, with a full Facilitator Guide and a Manager’s Guide that explores the same story from the other side of the table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Art of WorkLife Storytelling explores how to find, shape and share the stories that communicate who you are, what you have learned and why your work matters. Here, the craft of powerful beginnings, engaging middles and memorable endings comes together in three complete stories, a Failure Story, a Success Story and a Passion Story, and they are brought to one of the moments organisations know best: the review of what happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor Your Organisation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Challenge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYour organisation holds reviews. Project reviews, lessons learned sessions, updates to the leadership team and the conversations that follow when something hasn’t gone to plan. They are one of the most valuable ways an organisation learns from its own experience, a chance to understand what happened and carry that understanding forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe review is only as rich as the story told in it. When something has gone wrong, people under pressure tend to reach for a timeline and a list of fixes. Each fact is accurate, and the account is thorough. Yet the people who were there each carry a different version of events, and the most important parts, the warning that went unheard, the choices made under pressure and the people the work is for, are left out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen that happens, the learning stays with the few people who were in the room. Reviews become something to get through rather than something to learn from. The same lessons are learned again, at greater cost. And the story an organisation tells itself about its own work becomes thinner each time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Art of WorkLife Storytelling at Work helps each person find the real story beneath the timeline, shape it so others can hear it, and tell it completely: what went wrong, what went right and why it mattered. And it helps managers and leaders ask for that story, so that reviews become the start of learning that reaches everyone in the organisation, whatever their stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho This Is For\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeople preparing a project review, a lessons learned session, an update to leadership or any moment when they need to explain what happened to people who weren’t there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps they are capable and well prepared, and still find their account sounds defensive. Perhaps they have presented a thorough review and watched the room lose interest halfway through. Perhaps they know there is a better story to tell and can’t yet find the shape of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also for the managers and leaders who ask for those reviews, and for the learning and development teams who design the programmes around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat Your People Will Learn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to recognise when a timeline is hiding the story that needs telling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to gather different versions of the same events, and find what each one reveals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to find the story beneath the facts, including the parts nobody wants to tell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to write a powerful beginning that draws people in from the first line\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to build an engaging middle that holds attention through tension, turning points and the people involved\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to create a memorable ending that carries the learning forward\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to tell the same story to different audiences, from the leadership team to colleagues and customers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to tell a Failure Story, a Success Story and a Passion Story completely, so that together they build trust rather than defend a position\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat Your Managers Will Learn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to ask for the story behind a review, as well as the facts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to make it safe for people to tell the parts that went wrong\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to listen for the voices that went unheard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to turn one team’s story into learning for the whole organisation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat’s Included\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCillian’s complete story, told in three parts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflection Points, Learning Questions and Self-Coaching Exercises at every stage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe five School of WorkLife practices for sustaining your storytelling: Self-Awareness, Observation, Effective Self-Feedback, Insightful Self-Questions and Writing Your WorkLife Stories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Art of WorkLife Storytelling at Work Workbook, including the Story Gathering Sheet, the Beginnings, Middles and Endings Worksheet, the Audience Map and the Three Complete Stories Worksheet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Facilitator Guide with three 90-minute session plans, facilitator questions and guidance on feedback in the group\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Manager’s Guide, exploring the story from the director’s side of the table\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow This Resource Works\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Art of WorkLife Storytelling at Work is built in three parts and nine stages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart One — Discover the Stories Already Being Told\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStage 1 — The Request\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStage 2 — Five Versions of the Same Morning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStage 3 — The Story Beneath the Timeline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart Two — Develop the Story\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStage 4 — Powerful Beginnings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStage 5 — Engaging Middles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStage 6 — Memorable Endings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart Three — Direct the Telling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStage 7 — Knowing Your Audience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStage 8 — The Rehearsal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStage 9 — The Telling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach stage follows Cillian through a moment in his three weeks, then turns to the experience of each of your people with a Reflection Point, Learning Questions and a Self-Coaching Exercise, and closes with time to write. By the final stage, each of your people has gathered the different versions of a story from their own working life, shaped it with a powerful beginning, an engaging middle and a memorable ending, and told it completely as a Failure Story, a Success Story and a Passion Story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"School Of WorkLife","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56570710065531,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0581\/0772\/3938\/files\/TheArtofWorkLifeStorytellingatWorkCover.jpg?v=1794173230","url":"https:\/\/school-of-worklife.myshopify.com\/products\/the-art-of-worklife-storytelling-at-work","provider":"School Of WorkLife","version":"1.0","type":"link"}