Describe a time when you received difficult feedback as a project manager.
As a project manager, it will be impossible to drive a project to its success without earning your team's confidence. When positioning your answer, expound on the actions you took after receiving the feedback. Avoid going into too much detail about what the mistake was or from whom the feedback came. Think about how you were able to grow from the experience, and how you held yourself and your team to the highest of standards.
"I've been told by colleagues that I can appear to be overly bureaucratic during project meetings. For instance, I'd strictly follow the agenda down to the number of minutes spent on each item. Unfortunately, this doesn't give everyone the chance to bounce ideas off of each other. Worse, they would leave the meeting feeling unheard. After receiving the feedback, I realized that my job wasn't to enforce deadlines; it was to facilitate a smooth workflow for everyone and ultimately get the best results out of every task. I learned to be more flexible in meetings. Instead of being too focused on quantity, I focused on the quality of information we all left the meeting with. Because I mostly work with creative thinkers, I also learned to give them collaborative space, even if that meant I'd have to spend some one-on-one time with them to help draw out some ideas and solidify deliverables."
