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Process Improvement
Tell me about a suggestion you made to improve the way job processes/operations worked. What was the result?
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Recognising and Rewarding
How have you recognized and rewarded a team player in the past? What was the situation?
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Co-workers Feedback
Tell me about a time when your coworkers gave you feedback about your actions. How did you respond? What changes did you make?
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Working Cooperatively
Give an example of working cooperatively as a team member to accomplish an important goal. What was the goal or objective? What was your role in achieving this objective? To what extent did you interact with others on this project?
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Gaining Co-Operation
Gaining the cooperation of others can be difficult. Give a specific example of when you had to do that and what challenges you faced. What was the outcome? What was the long-term impact on your ability to work with this person?
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If you do not have much time & they hold seriously differing views, what would be your approach?
srivatsan2204
- Sep 13th, 2009
Play the 3rd Umpire role. Listen to both. See what is best or corelate their ideas and present a unified vision to the issue. This might solve or kindle something new in them to arrive at a solution.
RajatT
- Sep 27th, 2006
Accept their views provided the problem is solved in the stipulated time period...
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Leasership vs Management
Discuss the similarities and differences in leadership and management
srivatsan2204
- Sep 13th, 2009
Leadership moves away from conceptual management to inspire and improve creativity to come up with new ideas or management concepts.Management works on a strict agenda and desired outcomes. They go by the book and not the heart.
Whatsup
- Sep 2nd, 2009
Leaders provide vision, inspire trust, innovation and original thinkers.Managers focus on maintenance, administration and following rules and system structure, managers accept the status quo.
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What approach do you take in getting your people to accept your ideas or department goals?
srivatsan2204
- Sep 11th, 2009
Make them feel that they are also part of my idea. This will enable to be more receptive and I will also be receptive if they improve on that idea. This will get improved ideas to come.
axelleb
- Dec 14th, 2008
When trying to influence people, I usually try to put myself in their position and think about their perspective. I'm then able to present thoughts to them in a way more likely to end in success.
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In your present job what approach do you take to get your people together to establish a common approach to a problem?
srivatsan2204
- Sep 11th, 2009
Have the communication channel always open and constantly encourge them to improve on stuffs. This will help then to identify new issues and also think creatively when any new issue arises.
khalid hussain
- Oct 28th, 2007
Work as a team, all the team members should report about the task they have completed are having any difficulty, technically, need any resource.
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Success at Work
How will you define "success" at work?
srivatsan2204
- Sep 11th, 2009
Acheiving or exceeding what your organization and client wants consistently.
Whatsup
- Sep 2nd, 2009
Success at work is giving 100%Not every project or endeavour is successful, but if you give 100% and give your best shot then it can be termed as a job well done.
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Maslow's Need Hierarcy
How can a leader use Maslow's need hierarchy concepts to influence behaviour?
Whatsup
- Sep 2nd, 2009
Maslow's need hierarcy has 5 stages:1. Physiological2. Safety3. Love/Belonging4. Esteem5. Self actualizationhuman being has to move from level 1 to 5 only after level 1 is satisfied we move to lev...
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Health and Safety
If you're a Team leader what actions will you take to prevent accidents at work?
Whatsup
- Sep 2nd, 2009
If there are regular accidents at work then the work environment has to be evaluated to determine long term solutions.It is always better to have common standard symbols.. Notice in Red, Yellow & ...
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Motivation
How will you encourage your staff to cure sloppy work?
Whatsup
- Sep 2nd, 2009
Sloppy work can be avoided by setting processes & standards.- Have a checklist to validate that the work meets the standard before it is submitted.
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How would you describe your basic leadership style? Give specific examples of how you practice this?
tcox2
- May 6th, 2009
I would say that I have a mixed leadership style that is situational.? Generally I am democratic but there are times that I need to be authoritative because some things just require a decision to be made.
Carla
- Jan 17th, 2006
I would describe my style as a 'delegator'. Delgeating work gives your subordinate a sense of trust, helps improve work-flow, and ultimately takes a load of tasks off of the leader's desk.
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Transformational Leadership
Include characteristics of transformational leaders and how transformation takes place.
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Can you give me an example of your ability to manage or supervise others?
K.S.Ramgopal
- Aug 17th, 2008
I will manage or supervise others by influencing the people and not controlling.
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You are a member of software engineers team and working on a very important project. One of your peers has got ill. How do you cope up with the situation? You have to finish the project on time.
rrsain
- Jul 30th, 2008
First of all, we will try to find out some other person, but we won't waste our time on searching and adjust our working hour to complete the project on time.
kumar_muppa
- Jan 2nd, 2008
I will take initiative to avoid any road blocks by contacting the concerned persons who involved in the task.
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Do you feel you work more effectively on a one to one basis or in a group situation?
rrsain
- Jul 30th, 2008
Always it is better to work in group rather than to one to one basis. Any group have many members in it. So skills of all members can be utilized in right direction. It is much more effective.
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Business Development manager
What exposure do you have for business development
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