Seminar 5 - Story Telling and Reflective Writing - Angela Bushell
Notes
“Stories constitute the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal.” – Dr. Howard Gardner, Professor, Harvard University
“Storytelling offers the opportunity to talk with your audience, not at them.” – Laura Holloway, Founder and Chief of The Storyteller Agency
“Purposeful storytelling isn’t show business, it’s good business.” – Peter Guber, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, entrepreneur, educator
My Story
Civil Engineer, UTS 1993, Specialised in water/wastewater engineering
Master of International Development, Deakin, 2003 Worked in the UK, Vietnam & Papua New Guinea
Management Consultant KBR GHD Group
Project Leader at UQ ENGG1100 - 10 years EAIT Leaders Program
Project Governance 2023
Core Values
- Sustainability
- Safety
- Accountability
- Respect
- Diversity
- Risk-taking
- Excellence
- Inclusion
- Learning
- Community
- Kindness
- Belonging
- Success
- Order
- Teamwork
- Courage
- Grace
- Curiosity
- Growth
- Care
- Honest
- Innovation
Talk about Core Values Using Seal
- Situation - Didn’t know how engineering would work for me - but curious
- Effect - Made me indecisive about committing to studies and specialisations - but I knew challenge required courage to choose my path
- Action - jumped into the community aspect of engineering students and enjoyed the networking
- Learning - careers are built on relationships with people and I should work on that to enhance my sense of belonging.
Story Structures
Pitching Vs Storytelling
Pitching shares the same characteristics as storytelling, but with the resolution still to come. You are pitching the final act to the story. Pitching is telling the incomplete story, hoping you as the pitcher, will get the buy-in from the listeners.
