Team Leaders: Nuts And Bolts Leadership Interview Project

Nuts and Bolts Leadership Interview Project

Question 1: How would you describe your leadership style? According to you what is the most difficult part of being a leader?

Question 2: What motivates you to be a leader? In what specific ways do you motivate your team to pursue their goals?

Question 3: How do you monitor the performance of individual team members in your team?

Question 4: What are the strategies you have been using for helping your team in "goal setting"?

Question 5: Do you believe in classifying the "long-term" and "short-term" goals? If yes, then how did you manage to achieve your goals in life?

Question 6: Is it realistic to set longer-term goals during a very fast-moving campaign where things are constantly changing?

Question 7: Tell us about your approach to resolving conflict?

(b) summary responses to those questions

When interviewing a leader in an organization to discover their leadership style one must ask critical questions. I had the opportunity to interview Neetu Malik who is a Team leader at Accenture working for State Farm. In this interview, we discussed her leadership style, motivational thinking, and conflict resolving approach and goal setting strategy.

She thinks leadership is helping other people to rise to their full potential while accomplishing the goals of the organization. She follows democratic leadership style and believes in “lead by example”. Meeting expectations and delegating work is sometimes difficult being a leader. According to Neetu, there is a sense of satisfaction to have people coming to her for advice and valuing her opinion, she feels driven to motivate others. For monitoring individual performance, she prefers, one on one discussions with each member to track the progress and encouraging proactive participation within the team. Lead by example and appreciating their achievements always helps the team in building their