Collaboration

Sample Behavioral Indicators

• Identifies and facilitates beneficial partnerships and alliances with others.
• Maintain positive and productive working relationships.
• Contributes ideas and participates in team activities.

Sample Behavioral-Based Interview Questions

• Describe a time you built a positive working relationship with a colleague.
• Describe a time where, had you not been able to get another person’s or group’s collaboration, you probably would not have been successful.
• Tell me about a time that you collaborated with someone when you really would rather not have.

Recommended Resources

• Conversations that Get Results and Inspire Collaboration: Engage Your Team, Your Peers, and Your Manager to Take Action (Hayashi). McGraw Hill, 2013.
• Radical Collaboration: Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful Relationships (Tamm and Luyet). HarperCollins, 2004.