Spreadsheet: 232046d1367316831-display-a-bunch-of-questions-after-selecting-an-item-assessment-test
Sheet: Inspiration

Engage People | Please Rate the response | Criteria | Results
 | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Tell me about a time when you had to create a new compelling Vision for your people. | Highly Effective | Innefective
What was your approach? |  | Baseline
How did the situation arise? |  | Effective
What was their reaction? |  | Highly Effective
What was the result? |  | Exceptional
Give me an example of a time when there was already a strong Vision in place but you had to adapt and change it to meet new business requirements. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What made the changes necessary? | Highly Effective | Innefective
How did you formulate the new direction? |  | Baseline
What did you have to do to achieve this? |  | Effective
What was the result? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Describe how you made the organisation aware of the new Vision. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What was your approach? | Highly Effective | Innefective
What was important to consider? |  | Baseline
How did you get understanding? |  | Effective
How long did this take? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about how you engaged your management team in your Vision. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What was their situation?? | Highly Effective | Innefective
How did you get their buy-in? |  | Baseline
How did those involved react? |  | Effective
What happened? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Give me an example of what you did to make your Vision come alive. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What was you approach? | Highly Effective | Innefective
How did the organisation react? |  | Baseline
What did you have to change? |  | Effective
What was the outcome of your actions? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Describe what you did when you had to take the new Vision into Mission and Objectives. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
How did you organise this? | Highly Effective | Innefective
How did the organisation react? |  | Baseline
How effective was it? |  | Effective
What happened? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Give me an example of what you did to keep the organisation on track to the new direction. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
How did you plan this? | Highly Effective | Innefective
How did the organisation react? |  | Baseline
What actions were successful? |  | Effective
How do you sustain this? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a time when you had to involve other Stakeholders in your Vision. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What were your main considerations? | Highly Effective | Innefective
How did you approach this? |  | Baseline
How did they react? |  | Effective
What was the impact? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Describe a time when you had to react to resistance to your Vision. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What was the situation? | Highly Effective | Innefective
What were your objectives? |  | Baseline
What actions did you take? |  | Effective
How did these work? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Describe to me how people in the organisation get to meet and talk to you today. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What is important to you? | Highly Effective | Innefective
How do you organise it? |  | Baseline
What is their feedback? |  | Effective
How do you measure success? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Describe to me the best experience you had in reaching out and involving your people. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What did you do differently? | Baseline | Innefective
Why did this work? |  | Baseline
What was the impact? |  | Effective
How do you sustain this? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a time when you recognised success in your organisation. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
How did you measure success? | Highly Effective | Innefective
How did you organise recognition? |  | Baseline
How did this impact the organisation? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Give me an example of a time when you took your executive team through the process of translating the organisation’s Vision into its Vital Few strategic objectives. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
How did you gain their ownership of the objectives? | Highly Effective | Innefective
Specifically what had to change in the organisation’s KPIs/measurement system? |  | Baseline
How did this work affect the required culture of the organisation? |  | Effective
What results did you achieve? How long did they take to show? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me of a time when your leadership team lobbied you to change the strategy that was being pursued. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
How did they go about it? | Highly Effective | Innefective
What did you do? (Was the strategy changed?) |  | Baseline
What was the outcome? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a time when you have had to ask one of your executive team to take on an additional role outside his/her normal brief. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What were the circumstances? | Highly Effective | Innefective
How did you go about it? |  | Baseline
What was the result? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a time when you have had to ask one of your executive team to take on a different role (say a project role) from their normal brief and hand over their previous role to a colleague. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What were the circumstances? | Highly Effective | Innefective
How did you go about it? |  | Baseline
What was the result? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a time when you delegated an important task to someone else. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Why was it important? | Highly Effective | Innefective
Why did you delegate it? |  | Baseline
How up to date were you with its progress? |  | Effective
What happened? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Leading High Performance Teams (Getting the best out of people. Providing clear direction, encouragement and motivation. Generating enthusiasm and commitment in others to engage them towards goals. Encouraing effective team-working)
Give me an example of a time when you had to confront someone regarding an issue. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What was your approach? | Highly Effective | Innefective
How did the situation arise? |  | Baseline
What was their reaction? What was the result? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
What have been the most significant changes you have brought about in your area of responsibility? | Please Rate the response | Criteria
How were they received? | Exceptional | Innefective
Why did you make these changes? |  | Baseline
What impact did they have? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Describe a time when you had to lead a meeting. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What techniques did you use? | Exceptional | Innefective
Did you receive any feedback from those present? |  | Baseline
 |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Give me an example of a time when you have co-ordinated the work of others. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Why was it important to do this? | Exceptional | Innefective
What was your approach? |  | Baseline
How did those involved react? |  | Effective
What happened? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Give me an example of when you have delegated work to other people. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Why did you do this? | Exceptional | Innefective
How did they react? |  | Baseline
 |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a time when you had to take responsibility for a task. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What was your approach? | Exceptional | Innefective
How were you received? |  | Baseline
What was the outcome of your actions? |  | Effective
Did you receive any feedback? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a new idea/policy you have taken forward recently. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Why did you do this? | Exceptional | Innefective
How did you approach this? |  | Baseline
What happened? |  | Effective
Did you receive any feedback? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
What skills/qualities do you believe represent leadership? | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Give me an example of a time when you have used these whilst undertaking a leadership role? | Exceptional | Innefective
 |  | Baseline
 |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about one of the most difficult leadership roles you have had. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Why was it difficult? | Exceptional | Innefective
How did you overcome the situation? |  | Baseline
What technique did you use? |  | Effective
What resulted? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a complex project or task that you had to manage. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What made it complex? | Exceptional | Innefective
What did you do? |  | Baseline
What was the outcome of your efforts? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a difficult issue that you had to confront. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Why was it difficult? | Exceptional | Innefective
How did you overcome this difficulty? |  | Baseline
Why did you take that approach? |  | Effective
How did those involved react? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a time when running a project/initiative where rules/procedures became a constraint. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What did you do about that? | Exceptional | Innefective
What impact did that action have? |  | Baseline
What was the end result? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a time when you have widened your responsibilities in order to complete a task. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What prompted you to take this action? | Baseline | Innefective
What happened as a result of you doing this? |  | Baseline
 |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about when you have been in a position of leadership and it was especially important to provide guidance/structure. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
How did you approach this? | Baseline | Innefective
How did those involved react? |  | Baseline
What happened? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a project/initiative that you had to drive forward. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
How did you approach this? | Baseline | Innefective
Why did you take that particular course of action? |  | Baseline
Did you involve others? How? |  | Effective
What happened? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about something that you were responsible for making happen. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What prompted you to take this action? | Baseline | Innefective
What did you do to try to ensure success? |  | Baseline
Did you involve others? |  | Effective
If so how? |  | Highly Effective
What happened? |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a piece of work that you were given complete responsibility for. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
How did you manage it? | Baseline | Innefective
What happened as a result? |  | Baseline
 |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a leadership role that you held where planning was key to effective results. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Did you involve others? | Baseline | Innefective
If so how? |  | Baseline
What happened as a result? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a position of responsibility that you have held. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
How were you nominated for this position? | Baseline | Innefective
How did you deal with that situation? |  | Baseline
Did you receive any feedback? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a staff issue that you took responsibility for. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What prompted you to take this action? | Baseline | Innefective
How did the individual respond? |  | Baseline
What resulted? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Championing Change and Improvement (Challenging the status quo and generating new ideas and solutions. Encouraging a culture of continuous improvement and growth. Enabling and supporting others in introducing new ideas and alternative solutions. Taking the initiative to lead and manage change)
What have you done to make your current company more profitable? | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What prompted you to take this action? | Baseline | Innefective
How did you implement this? |  | Baseline
How did this improve profits? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Give me an example of the methods you have adopted to evaluate performance of the organisation and your top team | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Why did you choose that approach? | Baseline | Innefective
How effective was it? |  | Baseline
Any feedback? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Give me a specific example of one of the main things you have done to improve the overall effectiveness of your organisation. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
How did you go about achieving this? | Baseline | Innefective
What was the result? |  | Baseline
 |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a time when you needed to realign the culture of your organisation or adapt the embedded behaviours. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What led you to believe that a change was necessary? | Baseline | Innefective
How did you gain traction in the organisation (especially your leadership team) for the changes needed? |  | Baseline
How did you go about making the changes? |  | Effective
How long did it take to embed the changes into the organisation? |  | Highly Effective
What methods did you install to ensure the organisation was living the new culture and not slipping back to its old ways? |  | Exceptional
Give me a specific example of how you have monitored the efficiency of each function within your span of control. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Why did you choose this approach? | Baseline | Innefective
How effective was it? |  | Baseline
What were the results? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Give me a specific example of how you have established workflow patterns to ensure maximum efficiency within your last/current role. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Why did you take that approach? | Baseline | Innefective
How effective was it? |  | Baseline
What evidence do you have? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Give me an example of how you have evaluated the maturity of your business management systems. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What did you compare against? | Baseline | Innefective
What were the critical elements? |  | Baseline
What did you do with these insights? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
How do you evaluate your costs/income levels? | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Give me an example? | Baseline | Innefective
Why do you take that approach? |  | Baseline
How effective is that approach? |  | Effective
Any feedback? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Give me an example of how you have maximised the effectiveness/efficiency of the resources available to you. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
How did you do that? | Baseline | Innefective
How do you know that you achieved this? |  | Baseline
 |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Describe a situation where you lead an effort to improve the reliability and repeatability of your business outcomes. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Why was this necessary? | Baseline | Innefective
What were your goals? |  | Baseline
What did you do? |  | Effective
What did you achieve? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Give me an example where you were the only one of the management who saw the need for significant change. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What was the issue? | Baseline | Innefective
How did the others see it? |  | Baseline
What did you do to help them see the need to change? |  | Effective
Did it last? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Give me a specific example where you saw a barrier to success in the business operations. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Why was the barrier there? | Baseline | Innefective
How did you get support? |  | Baseline
What actions were necessary? |  | Effective
How did they change things? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Describe a situation where you recognised that a manager needed to open up to change. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What was the blockage? | Baseline | Innefective
What was your approach? |  | Baseline
What did you do to make them change? |  | Effective
What happened? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me how you led a team charged with major business improvements. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What were your goals? | Baseline | Innefective
What was your approach? |  | Baseline
What made it successful? |  | Effective
What was the lasting result? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Give me an example of what methods you have instigated or adopted or enhance your team’s performance. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
How have you used these systems? | Baseline | Innefective
What was the result? |  | Baseline
 |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
In your last/present role how have you monitored business performance? | Please Rate the response | Criteria
Why did you take this approach? | Baseline | Innefective
How effective was it? |  | Baseline
 |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Give me an example of how you have made your expectations for performance/results known to your team. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What impact did this approach have? | Baseline | Innefective
How did your team react? |  | Baseline
What results? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Give me an example of something that you have done to minimise costs/expenditure. | Please Rate the response | Criteria
What prompted you to take this action? | Baseline | Innefective
What effect did this have on your office/staff? |  | Baseline
What resulted? |  | Effective
 |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about the criteria that you established for assessing business performance? | Please Rate the response | Criteria
How did you keep up to date with progress? | Baseline | Innefective
Was this approach effective? |  | Baseline
How do you know? |  | Effective
What evidence do you have? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional
Tell me about a situation whilst monitoring business performance when you identified a problem/issue? | Please Rate the response | Criteria
How did you address this issue? | Baseline | Innefective
Were there any implications? |  | Baseline
How were these considered? |  | Effective
What was the outcome? |  | Highly Effective
 |  | Exceptional