Shadowing Practice: 7 LEADERSHIP Interview Questions & Top-Scoring ANSWERS! (PASS a Leadership & Management Interview!) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi there, my name's Richard McMunn from the interview training website, PassMyInterview.com.
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And in this tutorial, I am going to teach you how to pass a leadership interview.
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So if you are applying for any leadership role whatsoever with any organisation,
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make sure you stay tuned because I will help you to pass it.
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Now in a second, I'm going to walk through this door and undertake a live leadership interview.
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I will answer a series of difficult interview questions to teach you what to say and do during your own leadership interview.
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And just very quickly, please make sure you subscribe to this channel.
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I am on a mission to help as many people as possible to pass their interviews,
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and I can only do that if you are subscribed to the channel.
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And please make sure you hit the like button because
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that tells me you find the content useful and it motivates me to create more videos for you.
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Thank you very much.
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let's walk through this door and undertake a live leadership interview let's go.
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Hello sir my name is Richard nice to meet you.
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Hiya.
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Hey nice to meet you.
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Please take a seat.
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Thank you.
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Welcome to this interview Richard my name is Andrew and this is my colleague Joshua.
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Today we're going to be interviewing you for this leadership role.
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So if you're sitting comfortably and ready,
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can you start by telling me about yourself?
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Well first
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and foremost, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to be interviewed for this leadership position with your company today.
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Before I applied for the role,
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I analysed the job description and the person specification to make sure that I had the necessary skills,
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the qualities and the experience to come into the position
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and excel for your organization i am very good at managing
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difficult projects i'm very good at working with other people
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and organizing people to make sure that we meet our objectives i would say
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that i am a very strong communicator
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and i am also most importantly strategically aware i understand
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that within this leadership role i have a responsibility for delivering on your commercial and your financial objectives.
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The different types of experience that I have
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that I believe will help me to be an outstanding leader is the fact that I can always foresee potential problems.
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I will always manage projects well,
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I will put plans of action in place to make sure
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that we achieve our goals and I will look ahead to see what potential problems they are so we can adapt accordingly.
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I'm also very good at facilitating collaborative working.
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I'm very good at organising teams of people
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and I'm also very good at motivating others to get the most out of them.
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I will always take responsibility for the people who are within my team or my department.
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I believe I have a track record of significant achievements.
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For example, in my previous role,
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I was responsible for helping the organisation to increase sales by 20% year on year.
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And that was done by getting everybody together in a room,
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by brainstorming different ideas about how we could increase sales and then implementing
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effective and innovative marketing strategies to help the organisation surpass its financial objectives.
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I'm the type of leader who will always be a positive role model for your organisation.
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I will always demonstrate strong work values and ethics so
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that other people will follow and I will always be a strong mentor for people within my team or my department.
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Thank you.
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What are the most important skills and qualities needed to be a great leader.
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There are several skills and qualities needed to be an outstanding leader.
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You need to be a strategic thinker.
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Now what I mean by that is making sure
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that everything you do is totally focused on helping the organization get where it wants to be.
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And you also need to sell that strategic vision to your team.
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So you need to be good at inspiring
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and motivating people within your team or your department and also to enable them to achieve the company's vision.
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You also have to be commercially driven.
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Everything you do as a leader must be focused on making sure
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that the organisation meets its commercial responsibilities and objectives and also achieve the company's financial goals.
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You need to be a very good communicator as a leader
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and that's not just about selling your vision
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and motivating your team you also need to listen to your team
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and also listen to external stakeholders contractors
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and suppliers to find out what the problems are what the barriers are to enabling you to achieve your goals
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so you need to be very good at listening a good communicator inspiring others
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and you also need to be very good at embracing change and selling that change to the people within your team.
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You also need to be a creative problem solver.
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So you need to foresee potential problems where they are on the horizon,
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adapt accordingly and come up with creative solutions to the problems that you will undoubtedly encounter as a leader within an organisation.
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Thank you.
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Give me three reasons why you're suitable for this leadership position.
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The three reasons why I believe I am suitable for this leadership position are firstly the fact
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that I have a an in-depth understanding of this industry
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so I'm confident that I can come into your organization
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and make a fast immediate and long-lasting impact based on your commercial and your financial goals.
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I have lots of experience
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of dealing with problems within this industry and also coming up with creative ways to help the business move forward.
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The second reason why I believe I am suitable for this leadership position is the fact
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that I am not afraid to make difficult and tough decisions that are in the best interests of the organisation.
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Basically everything I do within this leadership role will be geared towards helping you achieve your strategic objectives.
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Finally, I believe I am best suited for this leadership position because I am a very good motivator of people.
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So I will be able to motivate the people within my team,
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sell the company vision and make sure that everyone is suitably placed and equipped to achieve our objectives.
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Thank you.
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Tell me about a time when you made a quick decision with limited information.
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In a previous leadership role with another organisation I was responsible for managing a very difficult project for an important client.
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Now part way through the project the client contacted me
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and he requested several changes to the project specification that were outside of the initial agreed contract.
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He told me that he needed an answer from me whether we would agree to those changes within 24 hours.
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Now, under normal circumstances, I would analyze the request,
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and I would conduct a costs versus benefits analysis to see whether we could go ahead and agree to those.
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But in this situation, I didn't have enough information,
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and I certainly didn't have much time to make a decision.
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So I decided to agree to the changes.
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Now, the reason why I agreed to those changes was because the client was a long-standing client of ours.
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He had spent considerable amounts of money with the organisation,
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and I believe that by refusing to those changes,
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it could impact negatively on our future working relationship.
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So I will always make quick decisions that are in the best interests of the organisation long-term.
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Tell me about a time when you handled a crisis.
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I was managing a team of people in a previous role
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and we'd all been working on a really important project for an external client.
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We'd been working on the project for four weeks and we only had 10 days left to finish the project on time.
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Now unfortunately three members of my team had to self-isolate because of Covid.
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Now this had potentially disastrous consequences for the project
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because those three people who were self-isolating were valuable members of the team they had lots of experience
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and i needed them to help get the project finished now there was no way
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that i was going to contact the client
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and request an extension to the project deadline
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so i assessed my options what were my options
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and how was i going to get this project finished
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so the first option was to speak to other departmental managers to try and find
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if they could lend me some people to come onto the
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project team unfortunately i was only able to find one person who could come onto the team
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and help me
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and even though he was really good he was suitably qualified we were still two people down
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so again i analyzed the situation
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and i believe i came up with an innovative solution to
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this problem i managed to find an outsourcing website where i
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could hire suitably qualified people who would work remotely on the different elements of the project
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that needed completing and I'm pleased to say
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that the project was finished successfully within
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that 10 day period by borrowing one team member from another department within the organisation
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and by hiring two people from an outsourcing website
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so it was a great result and we also then had
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that facility to use contractors from that outsourcing website moving forward if ever we needed them Thank you.
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Thank you.
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What will you dislike the most about being a leader?
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There are not many things that I would dislike.
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However, in my experience, the things
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that I do dislike about being a leader is having to work with external contractors
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or stakeholders who don't have the same appetite or ambition for project
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and task completion as i do although i do believe i have the necessary communication
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and relationship building skills to get them to work at pace
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and work effectively i find it frustrating at times when external contractors don't have the same appetite as we do
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The second thing that I dislike is people who are obstructive to change.
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I believe change is a fundamental requirement
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if an organisation is going to be successful and also maintain its position within the market it is serving.
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But again, I see it as my responsibility as a leader to promote change,
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to explain the benefits of change and how we can really use it to help us achieve our commercial and strategic goals.
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Thank you.
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What's the first thing you would do in this leadership position?
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The first thing I will do within this leadership position is to sit down with you,
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the senior management team, to establish what it is you want me to achieve,
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how I'm going to achieve it and within what time frame.
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So I want to understand the strategic vision of the company.
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I would then go into my team or my department and I would analyse their performance for short period of time.
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I believe it's irresponsible as a leader to go into a team
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and make changes without first of all understanding how the team is performing,
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analysing their strengths and weaknesses and what it is they need to perform to the best of their abilities.
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After analysing my team I would then sit down with each team individual and I would conduct a performance review.
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So I'd want to know what motivates them,
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again what are their strengths and and weaknesses
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and where do they want to be within their career
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and i would then sit down finally with my entire team
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and i would share my vision i would explain the different things
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that i'd seen within the early days of the team performing based on their strengths what they're good at
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and their areas of improvement and i would then facilitate the change
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that i would want to make
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and i would motivate them to achieve our commercial goals thank you so i hope you have found that tutorial useful,
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the next thing I recommend you do is to click
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that link right now in the top right-hand corner of the video and head through to my website,
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PassMyInterview.com, where you can download my full set of 34 managerial interview questions and answers.
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This is a great resource for helping anybody to pass a leadership or management interview.
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Make Make sure you CLICK THAT LINK RIGHT NOW and check out that guide.
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Also, please make sure you connect with me on LinkedIn.
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I've put my LinkedIn link in the description below the video
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and it's always good to connect with like-minded professionals such as yourself.
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Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to the channel so you don't miss out.
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And please make sure you hit the LIKE button because
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that tells me you find the tutorials and the live mock interviews useful.
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And it also motivates me to create more content for you.
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Thank you so much for watching and I wish you all the best for passing your leadership interview.
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Have a great day.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “7 LEADERSHIP Interview Questions & Top-Scoring ANSWERS!”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: leadership, project, organisation, interview, leader. Deze video bevat 178 zinnen en 2204 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 13:16. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 166 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 85% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| motivate werkwoord | /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/ | motiveren |
| dislike werkwoord | /dɪsˈlaɪk/ | een hekel hebben aan, het land hebben aan |
| contractor zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɒnˌtɹæk.tə(ɹ)/ | aannemer |
| outsourcing zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈaʊtˌsɔː(ɹ).sɪŋ/ | uitbesteding |
| tutorial zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌtjuːˈtɔːɹɪəl/ | snelcursus, tutorial |
| subscribe werkwoord | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | abonneren |
| foresee werkwoord | /fɔɹˈsi/ | voorzien |
| stakeholder zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsteɪkˌhəʊl.də/ | belanghebbende |
| isolate werkwoord | /ˈaɪ.sə.leɪt/ | isoleren |
| undertake werkwoord | /ˌʌndəˈteɪk/ | ondernemen |
| specification zelfstandig naamwoord | specificatie | |
| analyze werkwoord | /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/ | analyseren |
| appetite zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæp.əˌtaɪt/ | honger, trek |
| adapt werkwoord | /əˈdæpt/ | aanpassen |
| facilitate werkwoord | /fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/ | vergemakkelijken, faciliteren |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| come up with werkwoord | bedenken, verzinnen |
| check out werkwoord | onderzoeken |
| find out werkwoord | ontdekken, onderzoeken |
| sit down werkwoord | gaan zitten |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- I'm also very good at facilitating collaborative working.
- What will you dislike the most about being a leader?
- What's the first thing you would do in this leadership position?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | people who are · people who were · person who could |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | are subscribed · be interviewed · was done |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have found · I've put |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 24 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, didn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: thinker /ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/, ethics /ˈɛθ.ɪks/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: communicator /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtə/, facilitate /fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/, accordingly /əˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ.li/, innovative /ˈɪn.əˌveɪtɪv/, departmental /dɪpɑːtˈmɛntəl/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/, analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/, innovative /ˈɪn.əˌveɪtɪv/, obstructive /əbˈstɹʌk.tɪv/, collaborative /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹə.tɪv/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: contractor /ˈkɒnˌtɹæk.tə(ɹ)/, analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/, appetite /ˈæp.əˌtaɪt/, adapt /əˈdæpt/, surpass /sɚˈpæs/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: organize /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/, colleague /ˈkɒliːɡ/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als motivate, dislike, contractor.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.