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When writing your accomplishments, the following questions may assist you in ensuring that your examples are written to fully document your performance.Critical ElementRecommended FocusLeading Change1. Is your organizational vision evident? Or were you tasked? 2. Did you transcend vision into action? Did you take the initiative? What were the challenges, and how did you overcome them? 3. Did you have to deal with unexpected organization changes/obstacles? How? 4. Can you quantify results achieved? What was the significance of your accomplishments, and the resulting impact to your organization?Leading People1. Did you have challenges in leading a large staff? 2. How did you lead a team or your organization through a challenge? Did you motivate staff to achieve goals? 3. How did you contribute to the development of the organization's employees? 4. Did you have challenges involving dealing with conflicts that arose? 5. How did you leverage diversity among the organization? Business Acumen1. What is your experience in creating and administering budgets and resources? Did you make it clear and evident? 2. Did you procure and utilize resources? What obstacles were faced in doing this? 3. What was the size of budget and resources managed? Savings/cost avoidances in resources? 4. What is your experience with a multi-sector workforce? Percentage of backlog eliminated / reduced? Length of processing time reduced? 5. Did you utilize technology to create or improve programs? How? Was it difficult and did candidate overcome difficulty?Building Coalitions1. What internal/external groups/networks did you partner with to achieve a goal? 2. How did you bring groups together? What were your challenges in doing so? 3. What did you do to build alliances, gain help and support to accomplish organizational goals? 4. What were the significant outcomes as a result of your actions?Results Driven1. How did priorities and objectives that you set lead to high quality/quantifiable results? 2. Did you fully address the needs of your internal / external stakeholders? How did you do it? 3. Did you fully articulate the impact of your accomplishments? 4. Did you identify problems and implement solutions that resulted in improved products or service delivery? 5. How accountable were you for the results? 6. Were you able to identify opportunities that helped build/expand the organization? ................
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