Behavioral Interview Questions

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2	Capability	Question	Candidate 1 [CAPTURE VERBATIM RESPONSES]

3	Goal Orientation / Past Success	What single project or initiative would you consider your most significant career accomplishment to date? Why?
4	Leadership / "Downward" Orientation	As you think about your career, who is a team member you had a huge impact on and what are they doing today as a result of your leadership or management of them?
5	Values Orientation	What are the values of your current organization? (or most recent organization) How do you specifically espouse those values on a day-to-day basis?
6	Mission vs. Business	Tell me about a time when you disagreed with the CEO because an initiative or activity didn't align with the misison of the organization. What did you do? What was the outcome?
7	EQ	Looking back, what has been your greatest professional lesson? Tell me about how it affected future decision making/the way you work.
8	Team Management	Have you had to lay off or fire an employee? What were the circumstances and what was the outcome?
9	High Integrity / Dissent	Tell me about a time when you didn't agree with the decision of your CEO / Manager? Why didn't you agree and what did you do?
10	EQ	Tell me about your worst manager or worst executive you've worked for. Why was this person so bad and what did you do about it?
11	Relationship Driven / Downward Orientation	Tell me about a time when you broke a rule for an employee. Why? What was the outcome?
12	Growth Mindset / Humility	What skills or capabilities are you currently working on developing? How are you developing these? When have you leveraged colleagues to compensate for these areas of development?
13	Feedback Orientation	What has been the worst criticism you've received over the course of your career? How has this changed how you operate today?
14	Team Management	Tell me about a time when you led a team that was dysfunctional or had dysfunctional tendencies. What was a specific change you made or implemented to help right the group?
15	Leadership Style	Tell me about your style as a leader and use an example of how that comes to play in an executive team meeting.
16	Team Management	What is the most challenging people related issue you've encountered in the last year? How did you handle it?
17	Feedback on Interview Process / Ability to dissent / Be Honest	What feedback do you have on the interview process thus far? What would you change?
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