StoryPathing™ is a simple and effective tool to learn how to respond to a request to talk about yourself in public without relying on data points, facts, and figures.  The method consists of three stages.  The first stage is a discovery period based on reading, reflection, and dialogue to identify formative experiences according to thematic categories. Next, after a careful vetting process, a few of these experiences are selected and arranged in a sequence.  After refining and practicing your story, you’re ready to deliver your personal narrative, the final stage, both to engage and inform a listener who you are.  In the process of sharing a few key experiences, you invite the audience into your own story.

As an organizational tool, StoryPathing™ offers a framework and language to talk about yourself confidently by reducing the guesswork and awkwardness in responding to a request to provide some pertinent information about yourself.  Because the method invites you to reflect on a very few particularly valuable experiences (and valuable here does not necessarily mean ‘dramatic’ or ‘momentous’) in your life, you are able to insert these seamlessly into conversation to illustrate the genuine person behind and beyond the profile, data points, and credentials. You take the initiative to build trust, whether it’s an interview, networking situation, or even just a casual conversation.

One of the most frequently asked prompts in a professional setting is ‘tell me a little about yourself’.  Why waste this opportunity to begin shaping perceptions of you by reciting data points from your CV or on-line profile?   A story path is a running commentary of how you’ve made sense of your path to the present that engages your audience and invites them into the ongoing story of your growth and development.  While enlisting allies and mentors along the way, StoryPathing™ informs decisions and objectives by teaching you to share a narrative about yourself that is dynamic, self-aware, and authentic.  Your path, your purpose, your odyssey; Odyssey Coaching Group.