Hire & Develop the best

How do you Hire? 

• Can you share your previous hiring experiences?

• Tell me about your best hires ever? 

• Have you hired someone you regretted? 

• What do you look for in hiring for a position? Attitude or Aptitude?

How do you Build a Team?

• Have you ever built a team from scratch?

• What factors do you consider while building a team? 

  • Do you factor diversity?

  • Do you look at team skill composition?

• How do you ensure that team members work effectively together?

• How do you motivate the team? Or keep them together?

• How do you share knowledge within the team?

How do you Manage?

• Why would anyone want to work for you? 

• How do you manage your reports?

  • Are you a micromanager? 

• What is your management style? Manager / Leader / Servant Leader?

• What is your responsibility to develop your team? 

• Do you give stretch opportunities to your team?

• What have you done to improve the skills of your subordinates?

• Can you give me an example, where you were able to provide support to your direct report when they needed extra help?

• Tell me about a time when you helped a remote team member develop their career.

  • How did you help them develop across the distance? 

• Describe a person who struggled to get promoted under your leadership and how you helped facilitate their success.

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How do you Manage Performance?

• How do you evaluate the productivity/effectiveness of your subordinates?

• How do you handle performance reviews?

  • Tell me about a difficult one.

• How do you handle a subordinate whose work is not up to expectations?

• Have you ever had a subordinate whose performance was consistently marginal? What did you do?

• Tell me about a time when you had to take disciplinary action with someone you supervised.

• Tell me about a specific development plan that you created and carried out with one or more of your employees.

  • What was the specific situation?

  • What were the components of the development plan?

  • What was the outcome?

• How do you manage top performers

How do you Coach & Mentor?

• How do you coach an employee in completing a new assignment? 

• Tell me about a time when you actively coached or mentored somebody.

  • What were your key takeaways

  • What was the outcome? 

• When do you give positive feedback to people?

  • Tell me about the last time you did. 

• Give an example of how you handle the need for constructive criticism with a subordinate or peer. 

• Tell me about someone you hired that you thought complemented your skills. 

• How did you coach an individual in areas where you have a weakness?

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How do you Motivate and set Goals?

• How do you get subordinates to produce at a high level? Give an example.

• Give an example of how you have been successful at empowering either a person or a group of people to accomplish a task.

• It can be difficult to set goals for a team that are challenging yet achievable. Tell me about a time when you hit the right balance. 

  • How did you approach setting the goals?

  • What was the outcome?

• Describe a time when you had to decide whether or not to award or ask for additional resources. 

  • What criteria did you use for making the call?

• Give an example of a time when you challenged your team to come up with a more efficient solution or process. 

  • What drove the request? 

  • How did you help? 

  • What were some of your biggest challenges? 

  • What were the results?

• Tell me about a time when you encouraged a team member or organization to take a big risk. 

  • How did you balance the risk against existing business goals? 

  • What was the outcome? 

  • What did you learn from this situation?

• Tell me about a time when you established a vision for a team when there wasn't one.

  • How did you gain buy-in and drive execution?

  • What was the outcome? 

How do you handle challenges?

• Tell me about a time when you were able to remove a serious roadblock preventing your team from making progress.

• Tell me about a time when you uncovered a significant problem in your team. 

  • What was it and how did you communicate it to your manager and other stakeholders?

• Tell me about a time when you felt your team was not moving to action quickly enough.

  • What was the situation?

  • What did you do?

  • What was the outcome?

  • Would you have done anything differently?

• Tell me about a time when you enabled your team/a team member to implement a significant change or improvement. 

  • What problem were you trying to solve? 

  • How did you measure success? 

  • What was the end result/impact?

Interviewers Motive

• How do you operate as a People Manager?

How to Answer these Questions?

• Coming Soon. Stay Tuned