Has high personal standards that result in the drive to constantly seek performance improvements in themselves — and may inspire those around them. Sets measurable — but challenging — goals, and are able to calculate risk so that their goals are attainable.
Questions
1. What methods and tools do you use to schedule weekly activities (for yourself)?
2. Describe a period when you had a backlog of work. What circumstances caused the delays?
What did you do?
3. How do you distinguish between what is urgent and what is not when setting priorities?
4. Thinking about two or three areas of your current position, what are the standard expectations for a good job in each of them? Do you meet or surpass them?
5. Describe situations in which your work was above-standard expectations. Describe situations in which your work was below expectations.
6. Have you ever disagreed with your supervisor during a performance evaluation? How did you handle it?
7. Do your personal standards exceed the expectations of your organization? If so, give three examples of how you exceeded the organization’s expectations to give your “personal best.”
Politically and organizationally astute, understands internal and external forces, and manages themselves and those aspects within their control (e.g., staff, money, practices, policies and technology) to reinforce change and the organization’s mission.
Questions
1. What sources do you use to stay abreast of national and international affairs affecting your field of expertise?
2. What are the latest trends in your field? Your organization?
3. Do you work with other professionals in long-term planning for your organization? What are you currently working on?
4. What technical and professional knowledge do you utilize to prepare plans?
5. Describe two instances when you used technical information to improve efficiency in your organization.
Readiness to make decisions, render judgments, take actions or commit oneself. Accurately analyzes problems and makes decisions prudently using the resources and weighing guidance available.
Questions
1. Have you ever had to postpone action on a project to allow yourself more time to think? What happened?
2. Describe a situation where you rendered a snap decision based on available information and altered the course of action. What were the results? Were they positive or negative?
3. Discuss an important decision you have made regarding a task or project at work. What factors influenced your decision?
4. Everyone has made some poor decisions or has done something that just did not turn out right. Has this happened to you? What happened?
5. How did you go about deciding what strategy to employ when dealing with a difficult stakeholder?
6. How do you go about developing information to make a decision? Give an example.
7. How do you involve your manager and/or others when you make a decision?
8. How have you gone about making important decisions?
9. Describe a time when you had to defend a decision you made even though important stakeholders were opposed to your decision.
10. What was your most difficult decision in the last six months? What made it difficult?
Plans carefully, allocate and manage resources efficiently, establish realistic budgets, goals and timelines, communicate progress and outcomes.
Questions
1. Describe a time when you influenced the outcome of a project by taking a leadership role.
2. Using a specific example of a project, explain how you keep others involved in a project informed about its progress.
3. How many projects do you work on at once? Please describe.
4. Describe how you develop a project team's goals and project plan?5. How do you schedule your time? Set priorities? How do you handle multitasking?
6. What do you do when your time schedule or project plan is upset by unforeseen circumstances? Give an example.
Identifies and solves problems through a variety of methods. Resolves problems through systematic processes and inclusion of others. Understands when and how to decide in the face of uncertainty and ambiguity.
Questions
1. Talk about an experience in which you had a limited amount of time to make a difficult decision. What was the decision — and the outcome/result of your decision?
2. In a current job, what steps do you go through to ensure your decisions are correct/effective?
3. Talk about a politically complex work situation in which you worked. How did you navigate it?
4. What types of problems do you most enjoy tackling? Give some examples of the types of problems that you faced. What did you enjoy about them?
5. What types of problems do you least enjoy tackling? Give some examples of the types of problems that you faced. What was it that you least enjoyed?
6. To whom did you turn for help the last time you had a major problem — and why did you choose that person?
7. What is the most complex task you have had to complete in your work history? What made it complex? What did you do to ensure success? What would you do differently?
8. What resources do you access in order to accomplish your work? How did you find those resources?
9. When was the last time you felt pressure on the job? How did the situation come about? How did you react? What made you decide to handle it that way? What effect, if any, did this have on your other responsibilities?