Question: Describe a time when you held back your own thoughts and opinions in order to first gather the opinion of others.

Alternative Question Phrasing:

Relate an occasion when you withheld your own opinion, and tried to obtain the opinion of others, and why was this action important?

Follow-up questions:

Was it worth it? What was the outcome?

Question Details:

Question Type:

Behavioral

Skills:

Basic – Active Listening,Social – Social Perceptiveness

Other Factors:

Personality-Job Fit,Personality-Organization Fit,Personality-Team Fit

Work Activity (Task):

Information Input – Gathering Information,Mental Processes – Analyzing Data or Information,Mental Processes – Judging the Value of Things, Services, or People

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

Interpersonal Relationships – Coordinate or Lead Others

Work Style (Person-Job Fit):

Adaptability/Flexibility,Humility,Self Control

Question Frequency

Question Difficulty

What to look for in an answer:

The candidate’s listening skills.
The candidate’s consideration of the opinion of others.

Red Flags to Watch For:

The candidate’s unwillingness to listen.
Disregarding others’ opinions.

Sample Answer:

I’m a very opinionated person but there was a time when I held back just to listen to an expert’s advice on how to solve a problem we were having in marketing. It is also important that we know when and how to listen. We do not know everything and as they say, two heads are better than one.

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