Question: Visit the commercial Web site for Story and Symbol, letting it stimulate your imagination and sensitize you to the power of symbols and myths. You may be inspired to find other sites on storytelling organizations or the use of storytelling and symbols in education. Once you are oriented to this world of symbol and myth, evaluate how a recent group experience might have gone better if everyone had shared the same storyline. As a manager, reflect on how could you identify shared symbols and use those symbols to enhance group members' effectiveness.
Define how you would identify shared symbols in a group to which you have belonged. Next, provide a brief strategy for using those symbols to create greater group effectiveness.