My Personal Best Essay
1. Set the stage. Provide the context by briefly describing the situation: the organization, the people involved, the nature of the project or undertaking, and the challenges you faced. Also describe how you felt at the beginning of the experience.
2. Describe what happened. Be specific. What did you do? What actions did you take to address the challenge? To engage others? To keep others motivated, especially when things did not go as planned? What were the results?
3. Describe how you felt at the end of this experience and the two or three major lessons about leadership that you learned.
Read over what you have written. Have you used concrete, specific details? Is there anything important missing? Is there anything that is unnecessary? Make whatever revisions are needed so that you will be able to relate your story to your workshop colleagues in five minutes or less.
