Interview Questions

1. What are the most important decisions that you face daily as a leader in your organization?
2. How do you maintain your and your team's daily motivation and inspiration despite
obstacles, pushback or setbacks?
3. How do you foster creative and innovative thinking within your organization? How are
ideas shared and implemented within your organization?
4. What is most important to you and your organization – mission, vision, or core values?
Why?
5. What advice would you give a new employee going into a leadership position for the first
time?
6. What are the most useful resources that you would recommend to someone looking to gain
a better perspective into becoming a better leader?
7. How do you decide who the best candidate is for your team or organization?
8. What are the most lacking traits among the leaders today?
9. What are the most important traits of successful leaders today?
10. What is the most important characteristic that every leader should possess?
11. What are the most pressing challenges that leaders are facing today? And why?
12. What are you doing daily to ensure your growth and development continues as a leader? If
so, how?
13. What are you most proud of in your life?
14. Who are your role models or mentors?
15. When you’re considering partnering with another person or business, what factors are deal-
breakers for you?
16. What are your current goals?
17. What are the most important decisions you make as a leader of your organization?
18. As an organization gets larger there can be a tendency for the “institution” to dampen the
“inspiration.” How do you keep this from happening?
19. How do you encourage creative thinking within your organization?
20. What are you doing to ensure you continue to grow and develop as a leader?
21. How have you gained commitment from your team?
22. What is your greatest strength?
23. What would be your greatest weakness?
24. What is the most difficult part of being a leader?
25. How do you measure success for you as a leader?
26. What motivates you to be a leader?
27. Are you more comfortable with verbal or written communication?
28. How would you deliver bad news to your team?
29. Is competition among a team healthy? Why or why not?
30. How do you go about resolving conflict?
31. How do you delegate responsibilities to your team?
32. What leadership style do you use?
33. Have you ever taken on a job that you were unqualified for?
34. Do you have an organisational culture that promotes the growth and development of
individuals?
35. Is it effective?
36. What do you need to do to improve the culture of your organisation?
37. Do you have a culture of accountability and respect?
38. Do you fear change?
39. Do you view risk as opportunity?
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