Practice 30 DDI interview questions covering behavioral assessments, leadership competencies, and situational scenarios.
Question 2 of 30
What You Need to Know
Experienced 1
Experienced 2
How to Answer
Community Answers

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
Touching on accelerated performance with executive coaching, DDI states, "There's often not much support for people at the top of the house. And it can be hard for executives to admit to senior and C-level executives that they're struggling. DDI offers a range of executive coaching options specially designed for executives. Our highly experienced coaches can help new executives see potential pitfalls ahead as they adjust to new roles. We also work with high-potential leaders to focus on specific skills to accelerate performance. And we can help struggling executives get back on track."

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"On a recent organizational redesign for a retail outfit, I worked closely with the CEO, CFO, and other senior leaders right from the start of the project. During the planning stages, I teed up several staff communications from the CEO, as the staff needed to be made aware of the pending changes from the highest level of the organization. The leadership team gave valuable input during the planning stage that helped me to guide the course for them for the entirety of the project. I am comfortable and familiar with working with all levels of an organization, and I feel that the clients here at DDI will greatly benefit from that if I'm hired for this position."

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"Major change processes like an organizational design change involve many emotions for the employees of an organization. To help manage emotions, I've always considered the best remedy to be upfront, honest communication from the organization's leaders. Throughout my entire body of work in the consulting role with a company, I ensure that leaders regularly update the staff. If needed, I help draft communications and write speeches for town hall meetings and don't hesitate to assist leaders with these items."

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
As a consultant with DDI, walking a client through an organizational design change must involve buy-in and involvement from the highest levels of the organization, especially those who themselves are struggling. Talk about your previous experiences in working with, including, and coaching senior leaders through the planning and decision-making processes surrounding the redesign of an organization. Speak confidently and knowledgeably about the importance of the design process, buy-in, transition planning, transition implementation, and follow-up.
Write Your Answer
0 - Character Count
Anonymous Answer
I worked with the senior leadership team from the beginning. They gave me the direction and request to cut five jobs from my team, and I communicated to the shop floor following the senior leadership team's message for them. I reviewed the job success profiles, and I made the leadership team collaborate and give feedback on the new job success profiles. I also worked with the shop floor team in order to measure task timings, even with a timer and every draft planning was shared with the leadership team who helped me to fine tune and gave me direction. Finally, it was much easier to implement the five job cuts on the shop floor; the senior leadership team was satisfied by having participated on the plan, and the shop floor accepted the five job cuts because they were also involved, and they realised it did not represent longer workload from some of them, but reorganisation of the task to become more efficient.

Rachelle's Feedback
Your answer is helpful and detailed! You provide a lot of action steps, and the result is very positive. One recommendation is to set the stage more clearly at the very beginning. You could include the name of the company and your job title right away. The better you set the stage, the less likely your interviewer will break their concentration to try and find the role/experience on your resume while you speak.
Prepare for DDI's competency-based interview methods with expert guidance.
Get StartedJump to Question

Written by Kevin Downey
30 Questions & Answers • DDI

By Kevin

By Kevin