Love the examples and the staged storytelling. Thanks for sharing. Curious if you are taking on more people to coach. Would love to have a conversation
Storytelling, regardless for product management or career management, is critical to your success. Especially true for PM leaders.
I think your showing by example above is good. I would also recommend the Hero's Journey structure or S.T.A.R (situation , task - focus on choice you make and why, action, result) frameworks. It is versatile, simple (for interviewee to prepare) and easy (for interviewer to follow).
Learning how to effectively tell stories is a game changer. I had a storytelling coach in NYC who helped me a ton. My sister and I both worked with him. This is his website for anyone interested!
Great timing. I just wrote a piece on storytelling, but Nikhyl more clearly states some critical points. I may actually make an addendum to my post to refer here and add in these points.
1. too much detail and too little structure: Clear framework. Stop points so they can dig deeper where they want.
2. Too much jargon and abstraction
3. You want information that “travels well,” and is memorable. THIS is so important. I wrote about reverse engineering a Yes behind the scenes. This is what I'm getting at.
4. Problems, hardships, and honestly - what your OPINIONS were. They should think, "If this person got into a similar situation here, they would do the same or better. Maybe even better than their leaders"
What would it be for ‘tell me about yourself’ question? With the above example, wouldn’t it be too dense? What should be the right way to tell the story.
Love the examples and the staged storytelling. Thanks for sharing. Curious if you are taking on more people to coach. Would love to have a conversation
Anubhav
Head of Digital customer care
Adobe.
Storytelling, regardless for product management or career management, is critical to your success. Especially true for PM leaders.
I think your showing by example above is good. I would also recommend the Hero's Journey structure or S.T.A.R (situation , task - focus on choice you make and why, action, result) frameworks. It is versatile, simple (for interviewee to prepare) and easy (for interviewer to follow).
Learning how to effectively tell stories is a game changer. I had a storytelling coach in NYC who helped me a ton. My sister and I both worked with him. This is his website for anyone interested!
https://www.havebetterconversations.com/
Thanks for sharing this as a free post and great timing. Loved the breakdown and the rebuild of each phase alongside examples.
Great timing. I just wrote a piece on storytelling, but Nikhyl more clearly states some critical points. I may actually make an addendum to my post to refer here and add in these points.
https://www.toptechnewsletter.com/p/triple-star-leadership-interview-questions
Specifically:
1. too much detail and too little structure: Clear framework. Stop points so they can dig deeper where they want.
2. Too much jargon and abstraction
3. You want information that “travels well,” and is memorable. THIS is so important. I wrote about reverse engineering a Yes behind the scenes. This is what I'm getting at.
4. Problems, hardships, and honestly - what your OPINIONS were. They should think, "If this person got into a similar situation here, they would do the same or better. Maybe even better than their leaders"
I'm sharing this with folks, for sure.
What would it be for ‘tell me about yourself’ question? With the above example, wouldn’t it be too dense? What should be the right way to tell the story.