How To Sell Yourself In An Interview Stop trying to ‘sell’ yourself during an interview. I think the phrase ‘sell yourself’ needs to be removed from your vocabulary. The phrase brings up so many negative feelings. You don’t want to be a sleazy sales person who says anything to…
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Projecting to a Leadership Role Lots of the feedback coming down the pipeline is that you need to project into the role. The feedback hasn’t been you didn’t do it well. Its only a matter of if you do or do not. Projecting into the role needs to be occurring…
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…
S.T.A.R. Model – How to Structure Your Selection Criteria Response A template for your leadership stories STAR Model Updated STAR model – Now the STARP model. I have updated the model to include projecting into the role. This has worked wonders with my clients. You can find the updated blog…