Hi,
I had my McKinsey coaching and the girl told me that I should think of “Why me”, “What was my motivation to step up” in “inclusive leadership and ”Personal impact".
1. For Inclusive Leadership, I have a story where things were not going well in a group masters' thesis (most important) and I took on the initiative to lead the project. She said it should not only be because grades are important. What do you think about naming these three motivations?
1. I truly believe in the power of teamwork when it is done right and love collaborating and learning from others, wanted to enable this
2. I had a huge passion for the topic of branding, which the business project was about, and wanted to make sure to the most knowledge of this topic I could possibly have, especially by also learning from others
3. I It was the most important project of my studies, and I wanted to make sure that we get a good grade so that I have the GPA to apply at companies of my dream (i.e. McKinsey)
I am thinking that maybe they could still ask “Yes but why did you think you can lead the team better than others”. For me, in this situation I actually felt like nobody will step up, they were quite passive, and also, I had worked in consulting and project management before, so hence have some teamwork experience.
What do you think?
2. For Personal Impact, I convinced a program manager from my masters program to not go for a random exchange school reallocation mechanism.
WHY me?
I decided to step up and try to convince Caterine, the program manager, otherwise, for the three main motivations:
- We all studied very hard to get our favorite schools, and I saw all these efforts going to waste
- Related to this, comparability and transparency was not given. This and fairness are some of my guiding principles
- My hypothesis (which I tested) was this mechanism did not represent the cohort’s opinion, and I strongly believe in the power of democratic decisions