Identifying The Right Talent For Your Leadership Position - WalkWater Talent Advisors

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Hiring the wrong leader for your team is a big
mistake that can hamper the image of your brand,
as one wrong leader means a low quality team,
which in turn means lower production or lower
quality, thus harming your sales and thus
profits. It can cost you lakhs of rupees if you
hire one wrong executive to handle your system!
It is thus highly crucial that you identify the
right talent for your leadership position so
that you can have a successful team and the right
operations being executed in the right manner to
meet the desired goals. And, to be able to hire
the right talent, you need to find an executive
who possesses innate leadership talents such as
assertiveness, decision making skills,
motivational ability, relationship cultivating
skills, and accountability. You can hire from a
list of leadership hiring companies in India,
like WalkWater Talent Advisors to help you hire
such right talents with their expertise and
skill, or you can use the below mentioned
guidelines to recruit on your own. Weve
mentioned below some questions that you can ask
the candidates your interview, based on the five
qualities mentioned above, to be able to identify
that one candidate you can hire for the
job. Assertiveness
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• Have you had experiences where you were too
  persistent, and what were the results?
• Have you had experiences where you gave it your
  all, but still failed?
• Ave your given ideas to your seniors, which
  havent been accepted? What did you do then? How
  did it affect you?
• What are the biggest obstacles you have overcome
  and how did you do it?
• Decision making skills
• Have you ever recognized a problem before anyone
  else did?
• How do you adjust yourself in terms of any
  problems or threats?
• What are some good decisions you have made
  recently?
• Have you ever had to make important decisions
  that could impact your career?
• Motivational ability
• What events have been the most important to make
  you what you are today?
• What are your career goals in the next five
  years?
• Under what conditions do you work best?
• If youve ever experienced a letdown, what has
  brought you back up and how?
• What time of the day do you generally tend to dig
  into your toughest problems?
• Relationship cultivating skills
• Have you ever had to build and keep a
  relationship with someone who had a very
  different viewpoint? How did you manage?
• What would any of your references say about you?
• Is honesty always important at work?

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1. Have you ever taken up the responsibility of a
   failure?
2. Have you ever taken up the responsibility of any
   problems caused to others?
3. What mistakes have you learnt from?
4. How have you taken up any criticism or negative
   feedback given to you?