I believe that the STAR Method is one of the biggest skills we can give our students and graduates.

It is used in all industries and is the best way to assess if someone has problem solving ability.  With my students, I first ask them to write out an answer to a few questions and make it something that they can easily talk about during our meeting.  Once we go over the points of their story, I show them how to categorize the different sections based on their own experiences.

Just teaching them what it means, didn't work for me - they had to apply the "formula" with their own "variables".

After that, I started seeing a marked improvement on their storytelling abilities!