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Interview · Behavioural

Conflict and difficult conversations

Covers disagreements with colleagues, pushing back, delivering unwelcome news and repairing relationships. Suits any role that deals with colleagues, customers or stakeholders, at every level. Follow-ups push for the words actually used, how the other person responded and how things stood afterwards.

Suits: Account manager, Customer success manager, Project manager, Team lead, Engineer

Questions
7 of 17
Length
32 min
Format
Voice or typed
Levels
All levels
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Example
  1. Interviewer: Tell me about a time you changed someone's mind at work. How did you go about it?

  2. Candidate: Our team wanted to rebuild the billing page from scratch, and I thought it was the wrong call, so we put together a plan to…

  3. Follow-up

    Interviewer: You said "we". What did you say yourself, and what finally changed their mind?

  4. Scored on

    • Directness with respect30%
    • Listening and understanding25%
    • Resolution and outcome25%
    • Composure and self-awareness20%

    Score, reasons and recording. Your team decides.

An example exchange. This interview's own questions open when you use it.

What it listens for, and how much each part counts.

Every answer is scored against this guide, with the reasoning written beside the score. You get the recording or the written answers too, and your team makes the call.

  • Directness with respect30%
    Raises hard points clearly and early while treating the other person with care.
  • Listening and understanding25%
    Seeks the other view and shows they understood it before responding.
  • Resolution and outcome25%
    Moves conflicts to a concrete agreement or decision that holds.
  • Composure and self-awareness20%
    Stays calm under strain and owns their part when wrong.
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