Short list interviewing is a team sport and as soon as you take that on as a possibility, how you relate to interviewing completely changes. Many folks that I’ve worked with have told me that they are uncomfortable presenting in front of their peers, more uncomfortable than they are presenting to decision makers. When you take on the idea that your team is prepping together for a group presentation to a bunch of decision makers, you can participate as a member of that team. In that process, the whole team is helping you come up with what you need to be responsible for, what messages you need to create, and how you need to be able to deliver them. and they are there to support you, not to tear you to pieces. So what you need to do is fulfill on their expectations. So the way to do that is to fully participate in the team prep sessions and when those sessions end, you need to fulfill on your practice. So, you’re going to be responsible for a message and you need to take independent time to flesh that message out and to practice it out loud so that you feel good about the message and you feel good about your delivery of it and you have a sense that it takes the right amount of time. The group is going to help you figure out what the message is and how much time you have. you go and make sure that you fulfill on that so that the next time the team gets together to move things forward, you are ready with your piece and you can be open to their input. So, you’re showing up feeling good about your content and feeling good about your delivery and your timing. And what you want to be able to do is solicit their input. You want to ask them, “What was good about that? what could be even better and try to have the feedback zero in on specific aspects of your message and delivery. When you get to that place, you can participate in interviewing as a team sport where everyone is united on the end result. [Music]
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