I admit that my subsequent UC prompt guides are not as robust. I intend to remake them when time permits, but I'm glad you found this one helpful! If you have any drafts that you'd like me to review with you that we can share with the rest of the channel, please email me!
I had a position where I led young students by example and mentored them and built them up and all that good leaderstuff, but I'm worried bc I didn't really have a lot of hard decisions to make, there weren't a lot of downsides/consequences, and my role really wasn't being jeopardized-- is this a problem for this prompt?? thanks!
If your insights about coaching/mentoring as a leader are unique and interesting, then you can focus more on the positive value aspects of your leadership while not shining light on the weak areas of your leadership that you see. I've seen students successfully write a compelling leadership essay with your given constraints. Just really comes down to avoiding writing generically.
I think your place to start is doing at least 10 google searches of "What I learned taking care of my siblings" or "Lessons I learned as the oldest sister/brother." If you do enough research on your topic, you'll start to see what the main builds are, and which introspections resonate and align with your personal life experiences. From there, you list out your life experiences that you want to detail, and be sure to articulate those insights and personal introspections throughout as you show how you've grown through the process.
Hello :), I am thinking of writing about founding a club where I had a vision, but couldn't accomplish this mission since we didn't have funding and so I started fundraising, would this fall in situations with 0 unique skills or no real consequences?
It can! But it also can be a very nice twist. Here's my idea: leadership really counts when things DON'T go according to plan. How do you pivot? What is your mindset and approach and vibe when you've got to find a solution? What do you prioritize? What strengths of yours do you leverage and lean on? What kind of leadership quality do you think you've forged through this unexpected turn of events? What have you gained more confidence in (regarding your abilities or your approach to leadership or your understanding of finding group solutions) as a result? Yes, in a very simple sense your story can be boiled down to: club went to crap at the start, had to fundraise. But the response in your leadership essay about your introspection, your personal growths and realizations as leader can help carry this story to its real/full value to readers. I would love to see a student start off on the hindlegs and show me the process of regathering and making lemonade out of lemons. If you can collect the leadership qualities ingredients, then you have a solid story starter with that twist of expectations in the beginning.
That's getting deep! haha. I would argue that the 350w limit makes it difficult to attempt a leadership essay that is unconventional to that degree. For practical reasons, I think it's better to go with a leadership experience that incorporates leading followers. Granted, if you think you have an idea or example that showcases this notion, I'll be glad to read it and give my thoughts on it.
I have watched so many PIQ videos, but this PIQ video is undoubtedly the most insightful ones out there. Thank you!
This was one of the most helpful videos, thank you so much!
I admit that my subsequent UC prompt guides are not as robust. I intend to remake them when time permits, but I'm glad you found this one helpful! If you have any drafts that you'd like me to review with you that we can share with the rest of the channel, please email me!
Will definitely be referring to this video when writing my essay!!
THANK YOU!, most insightful piq video
Thank you so much. Best UC PIQ video i ever seen!!
This was very helpful!
I had a position where I led young students by example and mentored them and built them up and all that good leaderstuff, but I'm worried bc I didn't really have a lot of hard decisions to make, there weren't a lot of downsides/consequences, and my role really wasn't being jeopardized-- is this a problem for this prompt?? thanks!
If your insights about coaching/mentoring as a leader are unique and interesting, then you can focus more on the positive value aspects of your leadership while not shining light on the weak areas of your leadership that you see. I've seen students successfully write a compelling leadership essay with your given constraints. Just really comes down to avoiding writing generically.
hi, i've decided to write about how I had to step up and take care of my siblings at a pretty young age could you help me out a little
I think your place to start is doing at least 10 google searches of "What I learned taking care of my siblings" or "Lessons I learned as the oldest sister/brother."
If you do enough research on your topic, you'll start to see what the main builds are, and which introspections resonate and align with your personal life experiences. From there, you list out your life experiences that you want to detail, and be sure to articulate those insights and personal introspections throughout as you show how you've grown through the process.
Hi i was wondering can you read my Essays ?
Hello :), I am thinking of writing about founding a club where I had a vision, but couldn't accomplish this mission since we didn't have funding and so I started fundraising, would this fall in situations with 0 unique skills or no real consequences?
It can! But it also can be a very nice twist. Here's my idea: leadership really counts when things DON'T go according to plan. How do you pivot? What is your mindset and approach and vibe when you've got to find a solution? What do you prioritize? What strengths of yours do you leverage and lean on? What kind of leadership quality do you think you've forged through this unexpected turn of events? What have you gained more confidence in (regarding your abilities or your approach to leadership or your understanding of finding group solutions) as a result?
Yes, in a very simple sense your story can be boiled down to: club went to crap at the start, had to fundraise.
But the response in your leadership essay about your introspection, your personal growths and realizations as leader can help carry this story to its real/full value to readers. I would love to see a student start off on the hindlegs and show me the process of regathering and making lemonade out of lemons.
If you can collect the leadership qualities ingredients, then you have a solid story starter with that twist of expectations in the beginning.
can you be a leader without a team?
That's getting deep! haha. I would argue that the 350w limit makes it difficult to attempt a leadership essay that is unconventional to that degree. For practical reasons, I think it's better to go with a leadership experience that incorporates leading followers. Granted, if you think you have an idea or example that showcases this notion, I'll be glad to read it and give my thoughts on it.