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Storytime for Business Students
KEYWORDS: Storytelling; Learning through stories; Brain science
We may not consider using stories – especially children’s stories – to achieve our learning objectives, but storytelling has a rich tradition. It can translate the dry numbers and analytics that we tend to scrutinize in business into compelling images of a leader’s or teacher’s goals. Storytelling improves learning because it activate multiple areas of the brain. Storytelling has recently entered the management classroom and is relevant to many management topics. Come learn how the story time we first knew as children can provide a effective learning method. See firsthand some examples of how storytelling can be used to teach many topics.