Description
Change Your Training Narrative
As a trainer, you try to facilitate connections for learners, knowing you must first make connections for yourself. One way to do that is to be a storyteller. But how do you tell stories? How do you find stories to tell? StoryTraining: Selecting and Shaping Stories That Connect explores how to find your stories and deliver them for learners, ultimately strengthening the storyteller you already are.
The challenge with storytelling, according to author Hadiya Nuriddin, is in finding a story to tell. This book focuses on that elusive part of storytelling - finding the stories lurking everywhere and telling them. Hadiya shows you how by pulling from other disciplines, especially literature and creative writing, to help you select, structure, shape, and tell stories that can facilitate connections between you, your learners, and the material. You'll learn about the characteristics of stories that are most useful for facilitating learning, and understand what each looks like in practice. StoryTraining also includes helpful checklists as well as the author's surefire tips, diagrams for story timelining, and favourite story models.
Given the push to make training more relevant, storytelling ability will continue to be in high demand. If you yearn to find your own stories - and to successfully engage with learners and others - this is the facilitation book you have been waiting for.
About the Author
Hadiya Nuriddin specializes in instructional design and development for both corporate and academic environments and has nearly 20 years' experience in all levels of learning and development. She is the owner and CEO of Focus Learning Solutions, a learning and development consultancy based in Chicago. With a bachelor's degree in English, Hadiya has advanced degrees in both curriculum design and writing. She holds the CPLP and is MBTI certified. Throughout her career, Hadiya has also earned several technical certifications, including Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Office Master Instructor.
Reviews
"To make your content come alive, you need to tell a story. Hadiya Nuriddin shows trainers how to integrate storytelling into a content heavy curriculum. If storytelling has you stumped, this book will un-stump you." - Doug Stevenson, CSP, CEO and President Story Theater International
"Hadiya Nuriddin's advice to 'Find the narratives that shape your life and use them as tools to teach others' is brilliant! StoryTraining is a workshop in a book: one to be read highlighter in hand to capture every practical, instantly applicable nugget. A must-read for any facilitator." - Jean Marrapodi, Chief Learning Architect, Applestar Productions
"It's refreshing to learn intentional storytelling from a facilitator's point of view. In StoryTraining, Nuriddin puts words to the storytelling instincts I have used for years as a facilitator. This is one more must-have tool for your facilitation kit." - Greg Owen-Boger, VP, Turpin Communication, Co-author, The Orderly Conversation and Effective SMEs
"StoryTraining fills an important gap for learning professionals: Nuriddin draws you in with her stories, showing how they can be transformational. Then she challenges you to dig deep and find your master storyteller within." - Connie Malamed, Publisher, the eLearning Coach website and podcast
Book Information
ISBN 9781562866891
Author Hadiya Nuriddin
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint ATD Press
Publisher American Society for Training & Development
As a trainer, you try to facilitate connections for learners, knowing you must first make connections for yourself. One way to do that is to be a storyteller. But how do you tell stories? How do you find stories to tell? StoryTraining: Selecting and Shaping Stories That Connect explores how to find your stories and deliver them for learners, ultimately strengthening the storyteller you already are.
The challenge with storytelling, according to author Hadiya Nuriddin, is in finding a story to tell. This book focuses on that elusive part of storytelling - finding the stories lurking everywhere and telling them. Hadiya shows you how by pulling from other disciplines, especially literature and creative writing, to help you select, structure, shape, and tell stories that can facilitate connections between you, your learners, and the material. You'll learn about the characteristics of stories that are most useful for facilitating learning, and understand what each looks like in practice. StoryTraining also includes helpful checklists as well as the author's surefire tips, diagrams for story timelining, and favourite story models.
Given the push to make training more relevant, storytelling ability will continue to be in high demand. If you yearn to find your own stories - and to successfully engage with learners and others - this is the facilitation book you have been waiting for.
About the Author
Hadiya Nuriddin specializes in instructional design and development for both corporate and academic environments and has nearly 20 years' experience in all levels of learning and development. She is the owner and CEO of Focus Learning Solutions, a learning and development consultancy based in Chicago. With a bachelor's degree in English, Hadiya has advanced degrees in both curriculum design and writing. She holds the CPLP and is MBTI certified. Throughout her career, Hadiya has also earned several technical certifications, including Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Office Master Instructor.
Reviews
"To make your content come alive, you need to tell a story. Hadiya Nuriddin shows trainers how to integrate storytelling into a content heavy curriculum. If storytelling has you stumped, this book will un-stump you." - Doug Stevenson, CSP, CEO and President Story Theater International
"Hadiya Nuriddin's advice to 'Find the narratives that shape your life and use them as tools to teach others' is brilliant! StoryTraining is a workshop in a book: one to be read highlighter in hand to capture every practical, instantly applicable nugget. A must-read for any facilitator." - Jean Marrapodi, Chief Learning Architect, Applestar Productions
"It's refreshing to learn intentional storytelling from a facilitator's point of view. In StoryTraining, Nuriddin puts words to the storytelling instincts I have used for years as a facilitator. This is one more must-have tool for your facilitation kit." - Greg Owen-Boger, VP, Turpin Communication, Co-author, The Orderly Conversation and Effective SMEs
"StoryTraining fills an important gap for learning professionals: Nuriddin draws you in with her stories, showing how they can be transformational. Then she challenges you to dig deep and find your master storyteller within." - Connie Malamed, Publisher, the eLearning Coach website and podcast
Book Information
ISBN 9781562866891
Author Hadiya Nuriddin
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint ATD Press
Publisher American Society for Training & Development
