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That’s a part of McKinsey personal fit – Personal Impact dimension.
While telling your story it’s important to highlight the following things:
Hope this helps!
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Daniel
In a startup it can be realtively common since we are always selling ideas. But one time that marked me was when I was still an intern, had just entered the company and we were developing a product that had an specific conector to the parts.
We had a big team with one manager to oversee everybody. I convinced my boss to split the team into smaller teams that work more efficently and process oriented. Also this helped clarifying responsibilities and bringing to light where we were missing ressources.
I was talking to my manager at 1:1.
My feeling looking other collegues and also me, not have a common and clear values, everyone was sure to follow them, but they were different to mind to mind.
So i reported this to my manager explaining why this could be a problem, and after some questions he got that they were not visible, and they put the values in front of elevators so anyone in the company can read them
to have a tool implemented
In my previous internship in Paris, as a junior consultant, I have persuaded my manager to accept the challenge in politic. I have persuaded because I have an experience in politic and communication.
Indeed, during the european election, my previous manager had the choice to participate in the election and joining a political party.
After, we decided to create the strategy and how can my manager become a new politician.
For the conclusion, I would say that I have lost my manager because she became a new eurodeputy ...
When we were discussing about the brandname of a new company, i was able to succesfully convince the management board of my brandname-suggestion.
Um die Organisation und Koordination der In-House Reparatur von Entlüftungsaufsätzen zu erleichtern, sollten alle daran beteiligten Abteilungen und dazugehörige Mitarbeiter in einen gemeinsamen Verteiler aufgenommen werden.
during the selection for the design of a newsletter
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I persuaded my boss to execute a new technology with a high profile client, it was a success even though it was the first time to do it
I needed to convince my boss to hire more resources to track the pandemic spread in the office.
We had been printing out training manuals for each new hire. These manuals were at least 50 pages. Most of the training information would never be looked at again. I proposed we only print out the company policy section each time and take the rest in to be laminated and handed back in after the training class. Over time this would save us a lot of money on print costs and time in putting manuals together.
My company was facing a lot of slow movement days so I decided to investigate why and I verified that most of the old clients: 1. pets died and did not get another one; 2. Went to another clinic following a former worker and we had very few “new clients”. After talking a little bit with the new clients and with some friends I also realized that the company was not very known and had no impact at all in society. Marketing campaign was not that good to.
The animal day was coming so I convince my boss to visit a kindergarden, we would do a awareness day, teaching children how to treat animals, about abandonment etc so, positive impact, while still making our company seen by the teachers. Each child received a small gift.
So, 1 of the mothers owned a pet memorial company, is now working with us and some of the teachers are now clients.
Working on a task where i realised an improvement potential for the process
Pitched the idea to my boss in our next one on one meeting and she connected me with the responsible person
we then implemented it.
