Weaving Debates and Workplace Narratives

The study is the first of the two-part series that documents the success narratives of purposively selected post-college debaters from their workplaces and examines how their lived de bate experiences impacted their current careers. It utilizes Facebook in posting the question: How has debate impacted your work now? Common threads such as grit, persuasion, world class views, social engagement, love for reading, clear thinking and expression, multifaceted skills, better character, and spontaneity pervaded the stories shared by the debaters who currently work in diverse fields. The goals are to give a qualitative analysis to the extracted insights from each of the submitted stories and to come up with a collection of narratives instead of the usual how-to-debate reference. Then the compiled debaters’ narratives underwent online vetting and reviews for their planned utilization in trainings. The paper concluded with the narratives collection being forwarded to further analysis with leadership, strategy, and ethi