3 Stories Every Professional Should Have Ready
Most people have never practiced telling their own story. That's a problem.
You’ve just sat down in a meeting. Someone says, “Let’s go around the room and introduce ourselves,” and they point to you to start. You’re at a networking event and someone asks you what you do. Or your skip-level drops into your 1:1 and says, “What would you say your biggest contribution to the team has been this year?” and you weren’t ready for the question.
Every time, you find yourself giving some version of an answer. And every time, you walk away kicking yourself and thinking, “I wish I’d prepared an answer!”
You tell yourself you’ll sit down and figure out what to say next time, but you never do. So the next time it happens, you wing it again. Different situation, same feeling afterward.
The reason most people fumble these moments is that they’ve never sat down and decided what a good answer sounds like. They wing it every time, and every time it comes out a little different. Too long in one conversation. Too vague in the next. Weirdly specific …
