Hey there,

For a McKinsey Inclusive Leadership story, the interviewer will ask you about a situation where you led a team through a challenging time to achieve a certain goal. For this dimension, you need to show that you ...

• ... can handle a diverse group that accepts you as their leader, with diversity being the result of different backgrounds, cultures, hierarchy levels, etc.
• ... tailor your leadership style to different groups and group members
• ... demonstrate your ability to make the team succeed by helping to structure, divide, and delegate tasks and providing them with work plans, deadlines, and effective communication
• ... motivate your team, improve the team spirit and the working environment for all involved
• ... are interested in the well-being of the team and their own individual development along the way
• ... deal with conflicts between teammates and goals effectively

Overall, showcase that your presence as a team leader had a positive impact on the team and lead to a strong outcome of a particular project or task.

You do not need to be an official leader. What is important is that you create an environment that allows for strong collaboration and problem-solving among the team members, bringing out each individual's strengths.

A conflict could be related to the inclusiveness aspect. For instance, show how you integrate the different members of the team and their perspectives.

I have written an article on the topic that goes into a bit more detail here: https://www.preplounge.com/mckinsey-pei

The article also covers an Inclusive Leadership example story.

Cheers,

Florian

Hi there,

This is very much personal impact! It *might* be inclusive leadership but that would have to be a diverse team that you were leading and that you took leadership action to turn around.

That’s a personal impact question - but I’m not sure that it should matter. Regardless of which type of question it is you need to be able to respond in a way which demonstrates how you dealt with the inter personal challenges. My top advice is to listen to the question and answer what is being asked rather than trying to think about what bucket of questions it sits in.