Telling Tales: Meme

Stories have a time and a place at work. In a board meeting, such as the one pictured above, story-telling might not be appreciated. However, stories are an important communication strategy to convey ideas and events to other people. In addition, story-telling engages the heart, rather than the mind (which we are very much used to in this data-driven world). It allows people to bring out a different side of themselves in which they may not be used to at work, which can be a good and bad thing. However, stories must be told in a way that is conducive to the productivity of the meeting, conversation, etc. This is the difference between a good and bad story told at work. How could more story-telling change your work experience?

The image above not only retells the theme of humanity, but more specifically, captures the individuality of people through their varying opinions. It drives home the point that while there is a set of written and unwritten rules in the workplace, these rules can be shaped to incorporate story-telling as a way to convey information. I chose this image because its input depicts three very different opinions of story-telling. The verisimilitude of the image is very real, showing a picture of three humans (verisimilitude goes down with added captions, of course). The modality is using an image of humans to drive home the point about stories and to further reinforce the theme of humanity.