Question: What is your approach to understanding and adapting to your coworker’s personality types?

Alternative Question Phrasing:

What steps do you take to understand your colleagues’ personalities?
How do you handle different personalities at work?

Follow-up questions:

How successful do you think your strategies are?
Has this worked well for you?
Do you apply this strategy differently for different people?

Question Details:

Question Type:

Knowledge/Skill Based

Skills:

Basic – Active Listening,Basic – Learning Strategies,Basic – Monitoring (Making observations of self and environment),Basic – Speaking,Social – Coordination (Adjusting one’s own actions in relation to others),Social – Rapport Buiding/Relating and Connecting with others,Social – Social Perceptiveness

Abilities:

Cognitive – Flexibility of Closure (Pattern Detection),Cognitive – Inductive Reasoning,Cognitive – Oral Comprehension,Cognitive – Oral Expression

Other Factors:

Big 5 – Extraversion,Personality-Team Fit,Practical Intelligence (Street Smarts)

Work Activity (Task):

Information Input – Estimating Characteristics of Objects, Events, or Information,Interacting with Others – Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates,Interacting with Others – Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships

Work Context (Person-Job/Team/Org Fit):

Interpersonal Relationships – Relationship With Subordinates,Interpersonal Relationships – Relationship With Supervisor,Interpersonal Relationships – Work With Work Group or Team (As a member, not a leader)

Work Style (Person-Job Fit):

Adaptability/Flexibility,Approachability,Compassion/Concern for Others,Human Equity (Opposite of Discrimination),Social Orientation (Work Alone vs Group Work)

Question Frequency

Question Difficulty

What to look for in an answer:

The interviewee’s social coping skills.

Red Flags to Watch For:

If the interviewee has a poor social strategy for getting to know others or is not interested in getting to know others.

Sample Answer:

N/A

Question Source: https://www.totaljobs.com/advice/most-common-competency-based-interview-questions