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How to focus on the present moment
How to cultivate empathy and understanding towards others
How to set personal and professional goals
Interviewing for human skills
Behaviour-based interview questions focus on understanding what behaviours led to accomplishments, and the intentions, consequences and impact of the behaviours on other people.
Questions to explore conflict:
- Tell me about a time you suggested something that others disagreed with. What did you say?
- Have you ever encountered someone unreasonable at work? How did you handle it?
Questions to explore resilience:
- Tell me about a time someone criticised you at work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a time you wanted to give up on a goal.
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Focus on the role in your context
A survey of HR hiring managers found that 80% say job descriptions are important, but nearly 50% admit to copy-pasting job descriptions from other banks and industry leaders like Google and Amazon.
The Role Canvas can help to create a better job description by focus...
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The Role Canvas
- What is the main purpose of the role? Why does the role exist? For example, to lead a team to find new ways to engage with a new market.
- What is the role accountable for? Start with the known goals or outcomes for the role.
- What human...
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Understanding EQ and human skills
The basic dimensions of emotional intelligence:
- Self-awareness: The ability to understand what we're feeling and the reason for feeling it. Self-awareness is at the centre of intuition and decision-making.
- Self-management: The ability to regula...
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Product management skills
The practice of product management consists of two sets of skills:
- Technical skills are tools to solve a customer problem: What work is done - product roadmaps, vision statements, OKRs and KPIs, design sprints, product prototypes, testing, MVPs.
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The key to understanding product management is to think of it as a practice—somewhat like a doctor practising medicine or a lawyer practising law.
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- Tell me about the last time that you encountered a rule in an organization that you thought made no sense. What was the rule? What did you do and what was the result?
- Why shouldn't I hire you?
How to assess adaptability
- When interviewing people, ask "what if" questions. It will force a person to picture multiple possible versions and make decisions accordingly. It will give a sense of the candidate's adaptability based on how many scenarios they're able to come up with.
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Learn From the Past
You can’t rewrite events by replaying scenarios with different outcomes, but you can always consider what you’ve learned:
- What led to the mistake? Explore triggers that prompted your action and any feelings that tipped you over the edge.
- What would you do differently now?
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