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- May 8, 2025
Why Promotion Processes Assess Leadership Potential – Not Just Operational or Technical Ability
Many professionals assume that excelling in their current role is the key to securing a promotion. While strong operational and..
read more - April 18, 2025
Why Choose bselected?
I thought it was about time I re-introduced myself to give you details on how and why bselectedpolice’s promotion coaching..
read more - April 2, 2025
The Hardest Part of Leadership and How New Managers Can Overcome It
Becoming a leader is often seen as a rewarding milestone, yet it comes with challenges that even the most prepared..
read more - March 26, 2025
5 Simple Ways To Incorporate Leadership Thinking Into Your Interview – Even When Not in a Leadership Role
One question I often get asked is “How can I give answers at the board at a sergeant level when..
read more - March 13, 2025
The Fear: How Anxiety Sabotages Your Interview Success
Imagine this: You’ve spent weeks, maybe months, preparing for your promotion board or an interview for the job of your..
read more - February 24, 2025
Grab Your Superhero Cape: Delivering with Impact and Authenticity at Interview
Interviews can feel like a high-stake performance, where every word, gesture, and expression is under scrutiny. But instead of seeing..
read more - February 20, 2025
KISS: Why Simple Answers Are More Effective
It’s often said that “simplicity is key,” but in practice, it can be surprisingly difficult to achieve. Stripping things down..
read more - December 29, 2024
The Importance of New Year Goal Setting
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read more - December 18, 2024
The New Competencies & Values Framework
As you will be aware (or maybe not…) the College of Policing has introduced a ‘new’ Competencies and Values framework..
read more - November 27, 2024
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..
read more - November 15, 2024
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..
read more - November 5, 2024
Mastering Unstructured Interview Questions with the Past, Present, and Future Model
Unstructured interviews can be challenging. Unlike structured competency based interviews, where questions are predefined and follow a specific order, unstructured..
read more - October 24, 2024
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...
read more - October 7, 2024
7 Interview Tips for Introverts: How to Shine with Your Unique Strengths
Job interviews or boards can be daunting for anyone, but for introverts, the experience can be particularly challenging. The pressure..
read more - September 26, 2024
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..
read more - September 9, 2024
How to Answer “Why should you be promoted?” In Your Board: Top Tips For A Winning Response
Even in a competency based interview the questions “Tell me about yourself” or “Why should you be promoted?” are often..
read more - August 22, 2024
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..
read more - August 16, 2024
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..
read more - August 11, 2024
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..
read more - March 29, 2023
Using Situational Leadership To Get You Promoted!
Situational Leadership is a leadership theory that suggests that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to leadership. Instead, effective leadership depends..
read more - January 10, 2023
Tellin’ Stories
As you will know from our previous blogs (or if you have attended one of our masterclasses, online or 1:1..
read more - December 1, 2022
To STAR or Not to STAR
Over the last few months, we have had lots of conversations with officers who are receiving conflicting advice on the..
read more - November 14, 2022
Up Your Body Language Game
When in an interview (or in any situation where you wish to portray strength) body language or non-verbal communication is..
read more - August 30, 2022
How Much Time Do I Need To Prepare?
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read more - May 19, 2022
3 Simple Tips to Help You Look More Confident in a Presentation (Even if you don’t feel it)
Here’s a very short blog for you with some very simple tips that you can introduce to your board preparation..
read more - February 16, 2022
Are You Promotion Fit?
Many police officers across the UK have experienced a notable change in the format of their Force promotion processes over..
read more - November 26, 2021
Learning Styles: Tips & Advice in Promotion Preparation
Promotion preparation is hard, you don’t need us to tell you that. It may be many years since you have..
read more - November 1, 2021
Eating To Win (or lose) at Your Board
After a few weeks of overindulging and a lack of exercise, I’ve been feeling pretty sluggish and maybe not as..
read more - October 11, 2021
Police Promotion – Keep It Simple
Take a look at the definition of simplicity below: The contradiction here though is simplicity is not simple...
read more - October 6, 2021
Help Me! Managing Promotion Stress. A few Tips.
A promotion process can never be said to be a relaxing time. Even the best prepared candidates will have a..
read more - September 27, 2021
The 3 Pillars of Promotion Success
At bselectedpolice we have been delivering expert coaching on how to smash your promotion and selection processes for over 9..
read more - September 7, 2021
The Blind Leading The Blind: The Importance of Expert Interview Coaching
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read more - June 7, 2021
Preparing For Your Board – What We Can Learn From Sport
On the 20th of June Ben and I are both competing in the Nottingham Outlaw Triathlon – consisting of a..
read more - April 6, 2021
Remembering What You Did – The Hardest Part of A Promotion Process?
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read more - March 25, 2021
Forward Facing Questions – Are You Having a Meltdown?
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read more - February 17, 2021
How To Smash A Virtual Interview
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read more - February 15, 2021
Virtual Masterclasses
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read more - December 21, 2020
A short Christmas reflection, and thanks…
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read more - December 9, 2020
Focus On Prep That Counts (Most Don’t)
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read more - November 26, 2020
What’s Banksy Got to Do with Police Promotion?
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read more - November 18, 2020
“I Don’t Believe It!” – I’ve Got No Examples…
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read more - September 22, 2020
A Warning – The Worse Interview Advice EVER!
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read more - September 3, 2020
We Were Only Being Boring – 6 Quick Tips For Your Board
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read more - August 11, 2020
Virtual Promotion Masterclasses – Are They Any Good?
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read more - July 16, 2020
How To Prepare For A Online Interview
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read more - June 22, 2020
Oh S**t!! I’ve Got To Complete An Application Form
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read more - June 15, 2020
A bite-size blog: Problem Solving for Police Promotion Success
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read more - February 27, 2020
Why do people fail at the role play?
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read more - January 27, 2020
Why Do Great Officers Fail Their Board?
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read more - January 13, 2020
Planning For Success
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read more - December 16, 2019
3 Top Tips For Promotion Success
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read more - December 9, 2019
Assessment Centre Role-Plays: What’s the big deal?
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read more - December 2, 2019
Striving for Simplicity In The Promotion Process
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read more - November 22, 2019
ALF – The Most Important Rule To Smash Your Interview
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read more - November 12, 2019
Marginal Gains In Promotion Board Success
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read more - October 11, 2019
Interviewer Fatigue – How Does It Effect Your Performance?
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read more - September 30, 2019
3 Simple Presentation Tips
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read more - June 25, 2019
Effective Goal Setting
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read more - June 23, 2019
The Performance Cycle
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read more - June 11, 2019
Visualisation & Interview Success
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read more - June 11, 2014
Unconscious Bias In Selection
I recently read an article that got my hackles up as it is something I believe is so wrong within..
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