Hi there,

thanks for sharing your experience with us. On a high level I think the situation may be a great fit for an inclusive leadership story. I have heard many such stories during my interviews. What is important how you shape the story.

1. There is no requirement for a conflict. What interviewers are looking for are that you overcame obstacles while working in a team. The lack of product quality, level of commitments etc. are a good depiction of that.

2. It will be critical for you to highlight why you did certain things to improve the team effectiveness and how you also reflected on your team mate's feelings/backgrounds. Be prepared to receive questions like “What did XYZ think in that moment”.

Happy to support you as sparring partner.

All the best

Freddy

(editiert)

Hi,

Inclusive leadership stories have 3 core elements to them

1. Working in a diverse team environment (there are many diverse environments - it does not have to be gender based or nationality based it can even be working style like you have)
2. There needs to be an express challenge relating to the diversity (for example not being able to work well together due to xyz reasons and only certain team members dominating conversation)
3. Your solution needs to explain how engaged with the diverse groups helping them come together to solve the problem (focus on actions that showcase empathy and creativity)

Your answer has elements of all the 3 things above. I would emphasize the diversity element more (It cannot be things like quality of end output as that is not really related to diverse ways of thinking) and also expand on the solutions to address those challenges.

All the best in your interview,

Udayan

Hell yes! It sounds as a wonderful story. 

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Dear candidate, 

this is a great story and you can use it for both categories, it definetely works as a leadership story. If you have only limited examples then I would generally suggest, find the most difficult ones first, so entrepreneurship, then leadership then personal impact. Personal impact is so flexible you can use it for so much. But this is just a general suggestion. Of course if you are someone has a lot of entrepreneurship stories, then use a different order, but for most candidates the entrepreneurship stories are more “rare”.

Best regards

Hi there,

I think this is a great story!

I view it as a stronger inclusive leadership story than a personal impact story. It will be much easier to emphasize the inclusive leadership.

You definitely do not need to have conflict, but difficulty/tension that you worked through and resolved is important! Essentially, it can't be an easy team that solved itself - there have to be things that you took action on and drove (which it sounds like you have!)

Sounds like a great story.  Definitely sounds more like leadership based on how it’s currently framed.  If you choose a specific individual who you had to influence then in could also work as a personal impact story.