LifeLabs Mock Interview
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Question 30 of 35
Do you think it is possible to be a good team member yet disagree with your leader occasionally?
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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
The interviewer wants to know that you can be diplomatic in the workplace, even when you may disagree with your leader. Show the interviewer that you can be a good team member yet disagree with the leader occasionally. Explain that you believe everyone is entitled to their professional opinion yet capable of simultaneously maintaining respect for each other.
Show that even if you disagree with the final decision they make, you support the direction the team is heading.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"Yes, I think it is possible to be a great team member, even when disagreeing with the leader. It's all in how you maintain respect for each other despite the difference in opinion."
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"I believe that being a good team member is more about attitude than it is about compatibility. You do not need to agree with everyone 100% of the time to be effective in your job."
Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
The interviewer understands that people will not always agree with their leader or superior. For this question, they want to see how you handle disagreements and that you are diplomatic, mature, and professional when doing so.
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In my opinion, disagreement is not a big obstacle as long as we respect each other and follow the rules to achieve the primary target, which is the patient's satisfaction and high productivity. If I was in this situation, I will try to pass my idea and listen to the other ideas and then we can choose the best one. It doesn't matter whose idea it is. I am an easy-going person.
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You make an excellent point about disagreements and how they do not need to get in the way of critical work. Nice job!
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