Is it better to go with this or something more work-related?
Is it better to go with this or something more work-related?
Hi there,
Being asked for a leadership story you should focus on your best experience leading a team (of any size), either on a personal or professional situation. Keys here:
I hope this helps.
Alberto
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Hi,
sport activities are much appreciated by consulting firms, especially if at high level and with a captain role. Therefore I would deep dive it, by clarifying how it's been important to make you more emphatic in motivate different type of people and more effective in handle pressure and challenges as a leader.
I would even recommend to build another impactful leadership story based on a professional/school environment.
Best,
Antonello
Hi Anonymous,
theoretically the sport team example could be fine, however it is critical that you show the critical elements for a STARR or PARADE structure and in particular:
To decide between different examples, I would consider the following:
Hope this helps,
Francesco
Hi Anonymous,
Generally speaking, the closer a situation is related to a "typical" consulting/work-related situation, the easier it is for an interviewer to transfer your abilities into his "consulting reality".
However, the context from which you take your PEI example is much less of a concern and hardly influences your PEI evaluation. It’s much, much more about your personal contribution to that specific situation (bonus: does that ring a bell with the “Anticipated consequence” of the PARADE framework?). So how did you (positively) influence this situation? What was your real-life value in that situation?
(The original full blog post from which I took the excerpt is located here and might be helpful in addition: https://pei.consulting-case-interviews.com/blog/right-mckinsey-pei-examples/)
Hope that helps!
Robert
I think sports captaining is a fantastic example for many scenarios. There's many real world applications, it is typically high stress, very strategic, requires leadership and people skills and are usually very interesting scenarios. So in short absolutely!
Hi,
It depends on the role you are applying to:
Make sure your story has a clearly defined:
Best
Dear A,
This is definitely a good example. You can use this story in case you don't have any similar experience of leadership in your career or you are really passion about it, your achievements and results are really impressing.
Good luck,
Andre
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