What To Take In To An Interview Interview preparation will increase your confidence. When walking into an interview room, you can take in resources and although you may or may not use them, but by preparing yourself ahead of time, you will have everything at your finger tips. A…
How to Structure your Interview Responses Interview responses can be prepared ahead of time, follow a structure and must show that you are projecting into the role. Interviews are structured differently between schools, roles and level of leadership. There are definitely commonalities though. The advice in this article will…
Selection Criteria Habit How to build your Selection Criteria Responses Jobs come up quickly in schools, especially leadership roles. One minute, there seems like there is not chance for you to get any acting experience and then all of a sudden, you need to have an EOI ready in less…
How to Reframe Not Coming Up With an Inital Idea When putting your leadership stories on paper, writing from the perspective as the leader requires you to talk about why this story existed. This can trip aspiring leaders because you did not come up with the initial idea…
Why Are You Avoiding Application Feedback? Getting feedback on your selection criteria is great…until it’s not. Avoiding geting application feedback, is a sign of something going on within you. Its a symptom of a well rehearsed unconscious pattern firing off in your nervous system. It is a voice in…
How To Ask For Feedback On An Unsuccessful Application “Thank you for applying. We regret to inform you that your application was unsuccessful.” Once that email enters your inbox, hit reply, and ask for feedback on an unsuccessful application. Why ask for feedback on an unsuccessful application? It…
As you build your selection criteria for an application, get feedback. As aspiring leaders, feedback is a GIFT. It is an essential part of your leadership journey. The GIFT of feedback is going to provide vast benefits and few drawbacks. You want to experience as many opportunities as possible to…
Feedback is a G.I.F.T. She was our school’s new Deputy Principal, and I was a relatively new Head of Department. This woman would become, and still is, an influential, unofficial mentor of mine. After the first week of working together, I knew that if I was ever to become a…
Start your selection criteria response with why. For a promotional role as a Head of Department/Head Teacher, you want to open with ‘why’, not the how. I do not mean, share your why, but rather, why did you started this journey that has become a leadership story for you.…
Power Verbs help you up level your selection criteria responses. They add impact to your leadership stories. If you are ready to claim your awesome achievements in leadership, Power Verbs will do that. When you are putting together your selection criteria, you want to position yourself where you…