At the same time, we teach storytelling as an important managerial skill in its own right, because it enhances the effectiveness and efficiency of managerial decisions and actions. In this workshop, we will describe and demonstrate an integrated series of writing and storytelling assignments and share results of our efforts to develop increasingly effective experiential pedagogies.
Experience is an expensive school.
Thinking starts after an experience of truth has struck home. We have stories to share - stories of our experiences in learning how to use storytelling methods to help people learn from their experiences. Until you can say it, you may be doomed to having the same damned experience over and over again, without learning a thing from it. In our view, neither experience without thoughtful and conceptually well-grounded assessment and critique, nor conceptualization without anchors in the richness and subtlety of experience, represent adequate approaches to learning about organization and management. It's not easy to learn how to learn from your own experience, but we have learned that it can be done.