Leadership & developing others

Walk me through a time you set direction for a team. What did you do to make it something people could act on?

Tell me about a change you had to carry to your team knowing they wouldn't welcome it. How did you bring people along?

Describe a piece of work you handed over completely — decisions included — when doing it yourself would have been faster. How did you set the person up?

Tell me about a time you delegated something and it went wrong. Where did the failure actually start?

Tell me about telling someone on your team their work wasn't good enough. How did you say it?

Tell me about a person you managed whose performance stayed low despite your efforts. Walk me through what you tried, in order.

senior

One of your strongest people has gone quiet, and their work has visibly slipped over the past month. What do you do?

situational

Tell me about someone whose growth you deliberately invested in. What can they do now that they couldn't before?

Tell me about a time your team's morale genuinely sank — a bad stretch, a loss, a departure. What did you do about it?

Describe a time you ended up leading people who didn't report to you and didn't have to listen. How did you get them moving?

junior

Tell me about a time you overruled your team and used your authority to force a decision through. What did that cost you?

senior

Tell me about a call you made while leading people that you'd take back. What did it cost the team?