Kellogg Essay Tips #2

Kellogg's essay 2 is a little bit tricky, but don't worry, you've got this. So the question asks you to describe a professional experience where you had to make a difficult decision. They also want you to talk about the values that guided your decision making and how it impacted your leadership style. That is a lot to cover. So the first thing that you want to do is brainstorm a list of examples where you faced a clear challenge and you use leadership to overcome it. You might want to check out how Kellogg defines a leader, because that can be particularly helpful when thinking about examples. You also then want to think about if you can't clearly define what made the chall difficult and specifically how you overcame it, you might want to keep brainstorming because it's probably not a good example. Finally, make sure that the story that you choose has a clear resolution or outcome. It's not very satisfying when we don't have that. What you want to do then is when you specifically write your story, call out the values that you used while going through the experience. Things like I was guided by empathy are not really a great way to approach this. Be more specific and then finally end your essay with the result that you achieved and what you learned.