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Nov 27

Six Strategies to Help Overcome Imposter Syndrome

Do you ever get a nagging feeling that you’re a fraud? A feeling like you don’t deserve your accomplishments, you’ll never be “good enough,” and it’s only a matter of time before people find out? That feeling has a name: impostor syndrome. Impostor syndrome is a type of chronic self-doubt... read more →
  • November 27, 2024
Nov 15

How to Meet Cultural Fit Expectations in a Senior Rank Board

In the competitive landscape of senior executive roles, finding the right organisational and cultural fit is just as crucial as aligning with job responsibilities and technical skills. For senior executives, who play a key role in shaping and influencing force culture, ensuring a good fit can lead to more successful... read more →
  • November 15, 2024
Nov 05
Oct 24

Why Demonstrating Leadership Potential is Crucial for Board Success

As you ascend the career ladder, landing a senior leadership position becomes about more than just highlighting your past experience. It's about proving you have the leadership potential to shape the future of an organisation. And here's the urgency: in today's competitive market, failing to showcase this potential effectively during... read more →
  • October 24, 2024
Oct 07
Sep 26

Top Tips for Demonstrating Strategic Vision and Leadership at Interview

Based on anecdotal feedback from many of my clients over the years, the most difficult aspect of a senior leader position interview is often demonstrating strategic vision and leadership capability. This challenge encompasses several critical areas that you will need to address effectively at interview. So how can you optimise... read more →
  • September 26, 2024
Sep 09
Aug 22

Competency Based Assessment – Driving You Mad?

We recently ran a Twitter poll with some concerning results. We asked what officers thought the fairest way was of deciding promotion. The results are above. As you can see the majority of officers (at 40%) saw “Line Manager Review” as the best way to promote, 14% thought “Time of... read more →
  • August 22, 2024
Aug 16

Competency Based Interviews versus Strength Based Interviews

Competency-based interviews and strength-based interviews are two distinct approaches used in recruitment and selection to assess candidates and enable a more informed decision by the recruiting force. Although competency based processes are more common you may find elements of strength based interviews being incorporated into processes as well. What are... read more →
  • August 16, 2024
Aug 11

The Terrifying Forward Facing Question!

In discussions with officers from many forces (especially GMP, PSNI & MPS), it’s becoming clear that forward facing or situational questions are coming popular again in police promotion processes. Lots of forces are now including them either as the only question type used or in combination with more ‘traditional’ past... read more →
  • August 11, 2024