The Leadership Debate
”It’s not my job to tell people what to do,” said the deputy leader of a political party, illustrating a distinct approach to leadership. In interviews for senior positions, and even entry-level positions if you’re upwardly mobile, you might well be asked to describe your leadership style. You could give a STAR answer (please read on if you’ve never heard of such a thing), but that could be difficult when your experience extends only as far as leading the under-10 netball team to seventh place in the county league. If you don’t want to embarrass yourself and become another HR manager’s dinner party anecdote, it might be useful to borrow from a prominent figure in public life and talk about the leadership style to which you aspire.
You’re a STAR!
Competency-based interviews are interested in behaviour and there’s a formula that’s particularly useful in constructing an answer, though it also has some slightly lame connotations: give a STAR answer(!!!) where STAR is an acronym for Situation, Task, Action, and Result. You begin with a sentence or two on the background, which is often but not always a crisis. The task is the thing you were asked to do, or put yourself forward for if you’re one of the aforementioned ambitious types. The action bit describes what you did, and the more extra miles you went and the more Hooray! words you can cram in the better. The result is either that everybody lived happily ever after or that you made a never-to-be-repeated error and learned an important lesson about yourself along the way.
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