Stories

One of the complexities with describing competency in knowledge workers or technical specialists, is that we tend to have trouble explaining what we do.

More to the point, we have trouble establishing, and more importantly, proving, the value behind the work done.

To resolve this gap, I wonder if there might be something to the strategy of learning how to tell stories well.  Not tall tales, but rather the story of what happened.

At the end of a project, or when we’ve resolved a particularly difficult technical problem, the act of capturing that outcome – what happened – is rarely done well.