Hello everyone,
I was wondering if convincing our manager to use your marketing idea is a good personal impact story? Should I be talking about HOW I conviced her or what was the IMPACT in itself (sales increase, brand awareness, etc..)
Thanks!
Hi!
It should have all the things that you've mentions:
Best
Hi there!
Your suggested story goes into the right direction - since Personal Impact is all about convincing another person about something.
Based on the 1-sentence-summary of your example I cannot seriously tell if it will be a good story at the end of the day - it depents mainly on what you make out of this situation.
Main topics you need to consider when developing your storyline:
1) Underlying conflicting interest
The most basic ingredient for a strong "Personal Impact" example is a clear underlying conflicting interest between you and the other person. Both parties need to have a strong interest in the outcome of the situation with different opinions at the outset. Without this, it will never become a strong Personal Impact example, since if there is nothing at stake, it's not difficult to convince someone, and thus you miss the whole point of this PEI dimension.
2) Showing a strategic, process-oriented view of convinving somebody
Furthermore, it's good if your Personal Impact example is going on at least over several days, even better for weeks, since your interviewer is interested in understanding your approach to convince someone from a more strategic, and not only operational/tactical perspective, having candidates clearly laying out a strategic masterplan on how the other person could be convinced. And that's something which usually doesn't happen in one meeting or over night, but requires time to "design" and execute this process of convincing someone.
At the same time, the specific outcome is not that much of interest - it's mainly about your contribution and impact on this situation!
Hope that helps as a start!
Robert
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Clara
It can potentially be very good story. I need to hear more to be able to tell you whether it is the good one. More importantly, it is more about how you are structuring your story. Happy to offer you free 10 min call to refine your story together.
Cheers
Serhat
Dear A,
Here is some examples of the questions that would help to be in line with Personal Impact dimensions of PEI:
Hi,
Personal Impact part is all about influencing other people, which is why I put this question in the same bucket as Persuasion and Conflict Resolution.
In essence they want to know if you’re able to change people’s minds.
There are thousands of nuance to have a great answer, but this rough guideline will help you in that:
1) Describe the situation and your goal.
2) Describe the other person.
3) Describe what you did to persuade them.
As always, include the why you did it. You want to show a balanced persuasion approach that is thoughtful but not manipulative. Ideally, your solution made everyone in the situation better off (even the “opposite” side of the argument).
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