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Behavioural Interview Questions Leadership
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Leadership/Supervisory
1.
What has been your experience in supervising a diverse group of employees with
varied backgrounds
and skills, and what did you do to ensure the best fit of employees for each
job?
2.
What has been your experience in dealing with poor performance of employees?
Give me an example.
3.
Tell me about a leadership role that you have filled in the past. Describe the
key leadership skills
you feel you have and how you demonstrated them.
4.
Give me an example of a time when you came up with a clever way to motivate
your
employees.
5.
Describe a circumstance in which you recommended the dismissal of a worker who
had
proven
he/she could not handle the job. What procedure did you follow?
6.
What are three effective leadership qualities you think are important. How have
you
demonstrated
these qualities in your past/current position?
7.
Describe a leadership situation that you would handle differently if you had it
to do over again.
8.
What one experience proved to you that you would be a capable manager?
9.
Give me an example of a time when you helped a staff member accept change and
make the necessary
adjustments to move forward. What were the change/transition skills that you used?
10.
Tell me about a specific time when you had to handle a tough morale problem.
11.
Tell me about a time when you had to take disciplinary action with someone you
supervised.
12.
Tell me about a time when you had to tell a staff member that you were
dissatisfied with his or
her work.
13.
Tell me about a time when you had to handle a highly emotional employee.
14.
Discuss a work situation in which you felt you successfully directed the work
of others.
15.
Tell me about a time when your department was going through long-term changes
or
working
on a long-term project. What did you do to keep your staff focused?
16.
What have you done to develop the skills of your staff? How many of your
employees have received
training (any form) during the past year? What were the specific topic areas?
Did they
ask for the training or did your suggest it to them?
17.
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? How long was the time frame from start to finish? What was the
outcome?
18.
Please tell me about your most successful attempt to encourage others to take
action and get the
job done. What led you to take these actions? Exactly how did you encourage
others to take
action or responsibility? What was the result of your efforts? Did anyone
comment on your
actions? Who? What was said? How often have you taken this type of action in
the past six
months?
19.
Tell me about a time when you were responsible for hiring and orientating a new
employee.
What
did you do to help them adjust?
20.
Tell me about a time when you needed to delegate parts of a large assignment.
How did you decide
whom to distribute them to? What problems occurred? What was the outcome?
21.
What specific information do/did you share with your staff, how often do you
share this information
and why?
22.
Give me a specific example of how you have empowered your staff to make
independent decisions.
23.
Tell me about the expectations you create for staff. What are they? What
factors do you consider
in setting/communicating expectations?
24.
Tell me about the specific talents and contributions of your team/staff and how
you have utilized
these qualities to increase the effectiveness of the unit.
25.
Setting high expectations implies you believe the employee can deliver. Give me
an example of
having done this.
26.
Give me an example of how you and your staff have celebrated success in the
past. What was the
occasion?
27.
What consistent methods do you use to ensure that staff feels valued for their
contributions?
28.
Tell me about a time when you felt your staff was under too much pressure. What
did you do about
it?
29.
How do you make your feelings known when you disagree with the views of your
staff?