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Five powerful questions for adding impact and insight to your next interview.
In her popular book The Making of a Manager, referenced and recommended in many of our own manager development programmes, Julie Zhuo draws on her own hard-earned lessons leading teams to share a playbook of purposeful points for others doing the same.
From the Art of Feedback, to Amazing Meetings, Nurturing Culture to Your First Three Months; each chapter is flush with practical guidance to go and apply. To support our emerging focus on effective and inclusive interviewing; here we share Julie’s five all-purpose questions, recommended to reveal valuable insights when we as managers come to interview new potential team mates.
This can reveal what a candidate is passionate about.
This question gets both at a candidate’s self-awareness, and where there actual strengths and weaknesses might be.
This can create understanding around a candidate’s ambitions as well as how reflective and goal oriented they are.
This provides a sense of how the candidate works with other people and how they approach conflict.
This sheds some light on what a candidate thinks is interesting or valuable.
Which of these questions would you most likely flex in a coming interview? And how might you answer them yourself if asked?
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