Are You a Team Player / Team Leader?

Teamwork is essential for success. Top employers know that their success requires having individuals and teams on board that work well together. They hire team players. They promote and develop high-performance teamwork.

When you interview, be prepared to talk about your team skills. Have you demonstrated excellence in teamwork? What team successes were you part of? Have you built and developed a strong team?

Great teams:

* share a common purpose; they are aligned with the organization's mission

* they take ownership of their individual and team responsibilities

* have collaborative and shared leadership

* demonstrate consistently high levels of communication and teamwork;individuals know they can count on each other

* are innovative and creative

* are action-oriented & responsive - they gets things done on time

* they understand they deliver product(s) to both internal and external customers

* are committed to performance goals: they perform and deliver results beyond expectations - they are highly responsive in delivering their products

Questions About Teamwork

1. What do you think are the best and worst parts of working in a team environment? How do you handle it?

2. Why do you think a team of people - sports team, work team, may not work well together?

3. If I asked several of your coworkers about your greatest strength as a team member, what would they tell me?

4. When you were part of a great team? What was your part in making the team effective?

5. What was the most challenging personnel issue you've had to deal with and how did you handle it?

6. Have you gotten any sort of systematic or regular feedback from direct reports, clients, peers, supervisor, etc, and, if so, what did you learn?

7. Have you ever had to champion an unpopular change? How did you handle it?

8. Describe a situation in which you actively tore down walls or barriers to teamwork - or a situation in which you prevented or resolved conflict.

9. How would your level of knowledge be beneficial to your peers and to your team, if you were the team leader?

10.What do you do to enhance your team work / team leadership skills (i.e., Training Courses, etc.)?

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