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What knowledge do you have of differing leadership styles and how would you work effectively with each in this role?
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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.
People that work their way through the ranks of the business world and find themselves in high level positions can lead with many different styles. For this question, be sure to do your research on the differing leadership styles and be able to speak about specific times you have worked with leaders with that style or how you would effectively work with each style. Make sure to speak to the importance of differing leadership styles equating to the need for an individualized approach to training leaders.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"I have received training on working with the most common leadership styles in the sales industry: transformational leadership, transactional leadership, autocratic leadership, bureaucratic leadership and democratic leadership. I also fully understand the important characteristics and personality traits that leaders in each style display. I have some personal experience training an autocratic leader very closely on promoting teamwork within his department due to low morale. For this leader, it was important for me to personalize my approach by teaching him about his leadership style and what the pro's and con's both were. From there, my focus remained outward towards his team and their performance and how his approach could help impact that positively. Moving forward from our training, his team definitely felt a positive uptick in their morale and production."
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Having worked with multiple disciplines of clinical and non-clinical leadership, I have learned that every leader works and is motivated by their own circumstances. I've worked with leaders who have wanted to be involved in every work function, and for this leadership style, I would take a direct approach and emphasize teamwork while assigning clear roles and objectives to be met by each role. I have also worked with leaders on the opposite end of that spectrum who approached leadership from a very hands-off perspective. With these leaders, I had success in establishing standards and procedures with their department and promoting their involvement with the team.
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Good answer. You correctly define different types of leaders: those who are very involved and those who are more hands-off. Other techniques you can mention to the interviewer and use when working with a leader who is very involved include setting up early collaboration sessions with them to plan and determine goals and to proactively give them frequent updates. When it comes to hands-off leaders, outside of the suggestions you gave, you can also tell the interviewer that you would initiate frequent contact to keep them engaged and informed throughout projects.
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