Team Building (Supervisors/Managers)

Sample Behavioral Indicators

• Models positive and productive working relationships with individual team members.
• Sets up regular meetings with the team to gather and respond to feedback on what is working, what needs are unmet, and to recognize areas of common interest to plan and carry out joint initiatives.
• Monitors collaborative relationships to ensure the objective of the collaboration remain on target.

Sample Behavioral-Based Interview Questions

• Describe how you model positive and productive working relationships.
• Tell us about strategies you have used to build teams.
• Describe a time you were leading a team that was not functioning well. How did you address the problem?

Recommended Resources

• Getting to “Yes and”: The Art of Business Improv (Kulhan). Stanford, 2017.
• Radical Collaboration: Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful Relationships (Tamm and Luyet). HarperCollins, 2004.
• A Team of Leaders: Empowering Every Member to Take Ownership, Demonstrate Initiative, and Deliver Results (Gustavson). Amacom, 2014.
• Teamwork 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know (Maxwell). Thomas Nelson, 2008.