The Character Haw

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Storytelling is making a resurgence in business. We commonly hear that we need to tell the story of our organizations. The problem here is that business students are not educated to tell stories. Instead, business students are taught to be succinct and precise, neither of which is particularly engaging to the listener who wants details. Stories provide details and help fill out the message in a way that is engaging for the listener/reader.
The Cheese character story is one way for you to work on your storytelling skills. Choose one character from “Who Moved My Cheese” and write an entire story about that character that, in some way, is a story about change. Use 2-3 credible outside resources to support important points in the story, even though your story is a fictional work. Some of our most notable story tellers use real settings and circumstances to create the frame for their stories. Be sure to cite the resources in APA style to signal your reader that you are including work that is not your original work. This story may be as fictional or as real as you want to make it. Your story needs to include each of the following components: character(s), setting, plot, conflict (point of view), and theme.
The things that you want to accomplish are to set the stage, build tension, hit a high point or turning point in the story, wrap up the story with the events that follow the turning point, and provide closure to the reader. Each story that we read follows this chain of events, unless, of course, you are reading a case. A case does not wrap up the story, because YOU are the answer. You create the turning point for the story, but more on that later.
Write a story about one of the Cheese characters that explain something about change in an engaging manner. I have a YouTube that I will share with you to show you how one of my students worked through her story. I just returned from teaching in Hanoi, Vietnam last week, so the story teller that you hear is one of my Vietnamese students. She loves Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a Dream” speech. Let me know what you think. I’ll open a discussion board so each of you can provide feedback about the video. Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX78haVlOcc&feature=youtu.be

Source: Palmer, I., Dunford, R., & Akin, G. (2013). Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach (custom). Boston: McGraw Hill.