Ideate session output

1. Favourite
Disruptive
Practical
The ambitious girl NEEDS A
WAY TO quickly start to feel
competent and in-control
BECAUSE she wants to
always be a fully
contributing member of the
team.
Obvious
Modified
5 year old
No spend
Unlimited budget
Change laws of
nature
Shadowing
Vacationer
Work experience
WBTs
Case studies
Mentoring
Coaching
Buddying
Faking it
How to .. manuals
Methodologies
Walking through a
specific case study
with original team
member
Get vacationers &
graduates to
document new skills
and store centrally
Buddy up with
relevant person
based on lower
level skill insight
Assign
responsibility for
development to
engagement
manager
Central library of
task descriptions
WBTs for most
common tasks
(Excel & PPT)
Create interfirm
community of
interest for different
skills
Store and publish
worksheets
Assign responsible
mentor for task
Publish directory of
people's lower level
skill-sets
Ask responsible
person for support
Trial & Error
Give to someone
else
Cry in a corner
Accessible library
with all workpapers
Global network
Training session on
basics
Buy access to
relevant WBTs
Training by experts
Ask in graduate
network
Share graduate
work on intranet site
Google it
Ask resourcing for
relevant person
Telepathy
Virtual guidance
Invisible shadowing
Reperform same
task after initial
Pensieve
Create marketplace
for information
Yell for attention
and assistance
Search intranet for
examples
Design Thinking -
Ideate
Think about it
Summarise
methodologies
Methodology
training

2. • Why does he want me to talk
about things that do not work for
me?
• I thought I was prepared for work
in this environment but I feel like
the team is carrying is me and I
don’t like it
• If only I get exposure to skills and
tools I will feel much more secure
in knowing what to do and how to
do it
• I want to be seen as a professional,
not as a student
• I felt prepared:
• Spoken to people working in consulting
• Taken part in volunteer consulting program for a charity supported by
McKinsey for students to learn
• Worked as paralegal while waiting to start work
• Received advice from engagement managers on tools and skills
• I don’t have a business background, I need new skills and
WBTs only go so far
• How can I know what skills I will need so I can be better
prepared in advance of needing them?
• Would have loved to do more shadowing to see what
people do and how they do it
• How do I ask for help without hassling people?
• Confusion as to the reasons for this
interview (I originally interviewed her
for the vacationer position and
possibly should have spent longer on
scene-setting)
• A need to show to be in control
• A huge ambition to do the right
thing, now!
• Treated the interview as a job interview and was very
guarded in showing any ‘weaknesses’
• Sat in interview mode, very composed and polite
• Very contained and guarded and keen to answer
correctly
• Was struggling to reflect on the questions I asked and
provided answers that showed she was ‘in control’
The ambitious girl NEEDS A WAY TO quickly start to feel competent and in-control BECAUSE
she wants to always be a fully contributing member of the team.
Say
Think
Feel
Do
Stakeholder
– 21 yr old girl,
recently
graduated and
joined our
management
consulting
practice with a
psychology
degree after
having been
vacationer.