A career guide you fill in
How to apply for a leadership role
A fillable guide across 26 pages: you record team size, budget and reporting lines on a profile sheet, turn leadership phrases into situations with a result, and write out the six leadership questions with the answer and the follow-up.
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Where you are
What's holding you up
You apply for a leadership role and notice the questions are nothing like the ones you used to get.
For you if you are stepping into leadership for the first time or moving up a level.
The build
How you work through it.
Not a loose pile of pages to skim. The order is built on purpose, each part sits on the one before it, and you end up with a finished result instead of a list of good advice.
Understand the bar from team lead upwards
From team lead on, how you handle people decides, and technical depth is assumed. The guide shows the weighting and tells the same role once in expert logic and once in leadership logic.
Record the scope you carried
Team size, budget and reporting lines go onto one sheet as numbers, before you phrase anything.
Collect leadership evidence
Three situations with the number of people, the decision you made and the result. For a first step up there are four sources of evidence without a formal title.
Prepare the interview and the final round
The six leadership questions with the answer and the follow-up word for word, ten questions of your own for the employer, and a 90-day plan to bring along.
What is inside
The Leadership Application Kit
18 €- A profile sheet for team size, budget and reporting lines
- Six leadership questions with the follow-up
- The step up without formal leadership experience
- A 90-day plan for the final interview
One-off, no subscriptionInstant downloadInvoice incl. 19% VAT
A look inside
Real pages, not mockups.
Three pages from the guide, exactly as they reach you after the purchase.
The download
One purchase, two languages, two ways to work.
Both versions
The download holds two folders, one English, one German. You pay once and decide yourself which language you work in.
Real form fields
You type straight into the PDF on your computer and save as you go. Printing works too, it just is not necessary.
Worksheets included
If you would rather write in Word, use the worksheets that come with it.
What the price is measured against
A salary step to the next leadership level in Germany rarely lands below 10,000 € a year.
Who is behind it
Written from the hiring manager's side.
I am Nick, over 7 years in HR teams from start-up to corporate, most recently as Head of People. Everything in this guide is something I have used, asked or decided myself.
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What buyers want to know first.
I have never formally led a team. Is this wrong for me?
No, there is a separate part for that. It shows how to present technical leadership, project ownership and stand-in roles so they count as leadership experience, without claiming anything that is not true.
Is this in English or in German?
Both. The download holds two folders, one with the English and one with the German version. You pay once and decide yourself which language you work in, which helps when a German employer asks for documents in German.
Do I have to print this out?
No. The PDF has real form fields, you type straight into it on your computer and save as you go. If you prefer Word, use the worksheets that come with it. Printing works too, it is just not necessary.
How does buying work, and is it safe?
Payment runs through Stripe, the same payment provider Amazon and Zalando use. I never see your card details. Right after payment you get the download link on the confirmation page and by email, plus an invoice showing German VAT. Checkout, download and confirmation email are all in English.
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The Leadership Application Kit
From the leadership level upwards, nobody checks whether you can do the job any more.
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