The Story-Showing Audit
Have You Seen the Real Stories of Your Career?
Career resource
The Story-Showing Audit: Have You Seen the Real Stories of Your Career?
Use this audit to identify the situations, stakes, judgment, action, and results that show the value you create instead of simply reporting your experience.
What this resource covers
This audit helps you find the career stories inside your experience before you try to polish or tell them.
It uses the 3 Worlds of Perspective and SCAR to help your audience see the situation, stakes, judgment, action, and result that make your contribution matter.
Why people use it
- Identify the experiences that reveal your judgment instead of repeating a chronology
- Choose the point of view and evidence an audience needs in order to understand your value
- Build stories that make your action and results easier to see, trust, and remember
How to use the audit
- Download the audit
- Choose one consequential project, decision, transition, or difficult moment
- Use the prompts to identify the story before adapting it for a specific audience
Frequently asked questions
Who is this for?
It is built for professionals whose experience is substantial but whose examples still feel too generic, chronological, or hard for others to recognize as valuable.
How is this different from the Connection Audit?
The Story-Showing Audit helps you find and shape the story inside your experience. The Connection Audit helps you test whether that story connects to the audience's real need.
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