THE STORYTELLER'S ANALYTICS
Our Storyteller's Analytics Tool* focuses on the skills that can help us in observing successful changemakers up-close-and-personal by drawing on two conceptual frameworks:
An analytical Tool for Deconstructing Social Entrepreneur Stories
Making the Map: We ask the following questions:
Minding the Gaps: We ask the following questions on what prevents intentions from becoming results with the identified environment:
Building the App: In creating the platform (where costs are reduced and value is added) ask the following questions:
Getting Results: Then, summarize the results and any metrics used to assess the results.
Describing the Journey -- Citing any examples, ask if any of the following personal qualities applied to their journeys:
Commentary: Did anything else strike you? If so, what?
We use this framework as a foundation for another set of questions, especially contingencies and "what if's." That is, exploring paths not taken. This is intended to deepen the "challenge/struggle/resolution" story arc analysis by exploring blind spots and alternative decisions.
* This tool will be refined and improved upon by the storytellers themselves as we progress as an organization.
An analytical Tool for Deconstructing Social Entrepreneur Stories
- The Arc of the Story (Simplified): What is the Challenge? What is the Struggle? And What are the Results/Resolution?
- Our methodological checklists: Making a Map; Minding the Gaps: and Building the App.
Making the Map: We ask the following questions:
- What were the situations and settings that the changemaker identified as sub-optimal environments?
- What was the nature of the energy (negative and positive) at work in the sub-optimal environment?
Minding the Gaps: We ask the following questions on what prevents intentions from becoming results with the identified environment:
- Which dynamic pathways have gotten clogged up or disconnected?
- What causes the pathways to get clogged or disconnects them?
Building the App: In creating the platform (where costs are reduced and value is added) ask the following questions:
- What approaches were taken -- direct, indirect, group, or combined?
- What energy was released and/or redirected?
- What were the key levers used (catalysts) used and who wielded them? a
Getting Results: Then, summarize the results and any metrics used to assess the results.
Describing the Journey -- Citing any examples, ask if any of the following personal qualities applied to their journeys:
- An abhorrence of unproductive systems, yet appreciating the forces that govern them;
- A deep level expertise in their field, yet functioning as apprentices
- To exercise rapid experimentation yet committing to holding fast to long-term goals
Commentary: Did anything else strike you? If so, what?
We use this framework as a foundation for another set of questions, especially contingencies and "what if's." That is, exploring paths not taken. This is intended to deepen the "challenge/struggle/resolution" story arc analysis by exploring blind spots and alternative decisions.
* This tool will be refined and improved upon by the storytellers themselves as we progress as an organization.