What is a narrative?
Posted by : Bob LivingstonAll learning is personal, even in an organization. The organization provides the objective and content. The trainer provides the instruction. However, the individual does the learning. In my “umpteen” years of developing training programs, I came to realize that most programs don’t reflect this truism. The focus is on the information and not the learner.
You may have already realized that my blog is about something called narrative learning. I ran into the concept of narrative in 2001. People construct narratives by selecting and connecting certain experiences, knowledge, assumptions, beliefs, and values to form a coherent, credible, consistent and meaningful story about how we view our world. An individual’s life identity is a narrative. The best way to demonstrate a narrative is by giving you an “activity” to complete. After all, I am a trainer.
The next time you meet someone new and have the opportunity to have an extended conversation, ask them to tell you what they do for a living. You, of course, will get an outline of the job they do. After their finished, ask, "How did you end up being a whatever the job is?" The answer will be given in the form of a narrative. So now that you know what a narrative is, or will when you do your activity, let me tell you what I will be talking about. There will be three primary areas I will discuss; 1. Narrative Learning and how it works, 2. How Narrative Learning improves organizational development efforts, and 3. Training in general. I will also either give you an activity or pose a question with each posting. I would love to hear from you. Let me know how your conversation went.
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