Managerial Questions

1. How would the last group of people you supervised describe your leadership values?
   
   
2. Why do you think some teams are more successful than others?
   
   
3. Tell us about your management style - people, teamwork, direction?
   
   
4. Describe your ideal supervisor.
   
   
5. What was the most challenging personnel issue you’ve had to deal with and how did you handle it?
   
   
6. A new policy is to be implemented organization-wide. You do not agree with this new policy. How do you discuss this policy with your staff?
   
   
7. Explain, step by step, how you have handled an employee who had performance problems.
   
   
8. Management requires both good writing and verbal skills for good communication. When it comes to giving information to employees that can be done either way, do you prefer to write a memo OR talk to the employee?
   
   
9. Managers need good information and managers need to make good decisions. Do you tend to gather information up to a deadline in order to make a better-informed decision OR gather just enough information to make a good decision quickly?
   
   
10. Are you best at dealing with details and day-to-day operations OR with concepts, envisioning and future planning? Give me an example.
    
    

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