Practice Guide: Adaptability & Leadership
Find your story and draft it, one step at a time.
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Adaptability & Leadership
A story about adjusting when things changed, or stepping up when it mattered.
Adaptability & Leadership is about adjusting when things change and stepping up to help others toward a goal. Leadership here doesn't need a title. It shows up when you take initiative, keep someone else going, or keep moving when circumstances shift.
This is practice, and it isn't graded. Draft your story here, see how long it runs out loud, then record it or copy it into the matching STAR(T) Stories portal in Blackboard.
Find your story
Your story can come from school, work, family, or your community. It doesn't have to be dramatic. It has to be real, and yours.
Your Mile Markers may already hold a story worth telling.
Questions to help you find it:
- Was there a time your plan fell apart and you had to change course, without falling apart yourself?
- Have you ever stepped up to lead, in a group, at work, or in your family, even though nobody officially asked you to?
- Is there a moment when you helped someone else stay motivated or on track when things got hard?
- Did you have to adjust to a new place, a new system, or new expectations, and figure it out?
Draft it, one step at a time
Your draft saves in this browser as you go. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Ask it to help you find your story, not to write it: "Don't write my response for me. Help me find it." Your story has to sound like you.