Tuck students are nice, and invest generously in one another’s success. Share an example of how you helped someone else succeed

As a Senior Research Associate at GGG, I worked with people across research and marketing to create a network for Analysts to promote each other’s research on social media. To help scale the initiative, I trained Research Associates on how to draft blogs and tweets for their Analysts, who were often too busy to write blogs themselves. This initiative increased client engagement with reports and gave Research Associates a career development opportunity by getting writing experience. By leading it I gained visibility and a positive reputation across the company- all the way up to senior research leadership. Through training my peers, I discovered two Senior Research Associates who were passionate about the initiative and onboarded them as co-leaders.

One, TTT, was new to his position and didn’t have any projects beyond his job description. I felt that TTT would benefit from taking over leadership of the social media project and stretching his role . So, I offered to have him become the face of the project to gain more experience and recognition, and I moved into the background. As soon as TTT became a part of the team, he led meetings and presentations and sent all communication. At first, he wasn’t very comfortable with public speaking, so I would work with him the week before, reviewing slides, giving feedback on the presentation, and asking mock questions I thought might come up. Additionally, while he was learning the details of the platform’s process, I made sure everything ran smoothly behind the scenes.

We soon realized that we each brought different strengths. TTT was great at energizing and rallying our peer Research Associates to participate, while I was skilled at working with the metrics and promoting the initiative to gain buy-in from research leadership and Analysts. He used his strength to help the project scale even further by assigning Research Associates to be leads on their team, coordinate which reports would be promoted and who would write the blogs, and roll them up to us to distribute across the network. Without TTT’s fresh perspective and new ideas on how to scale, the network would’ve maxed out at a smaller size. As I expected, people across the organization took notice-when TTT was promoted, he said the hiring manager specifically called out his leadership on this project as a standout about his application.

Although the plan had been to transition all of my tasks leading the social media project to TTT, we realized the initiative would be the most successful if we partnered, and I continued to work on aspects I knew well behind the scenes so TTT could devote time fully to his own strengths. I’ve learned that by helping others you can achieve the best outcomes. You don’t succeed in isolation, and are more effective if you have a team with diverse skills you can draw on. I’ll bring this perspective to Tuck, where I’ll generously invest my time in supporting my peers without expecting “credit” or my name attached to it.