Management Interview - Describe your management style

 I have to trust my team. I start every project by making sure that I give clear directions and outline our overall goals, but I make a real effort not to micromanage. I prefer to remain hands-off when it comes to individual tasks, but at the same time, I’m always available for help, guidance, and assistance when needed. I like to know what’s going on with regular informal check-ins, but I try not to make people feel like I’m breathing down their necks or forcing everyone to sacrifice valuable work time to hold unnecessary team meetings. I prefer to jot down my version of performance criteria as detailed as possible and apply it when appropriate, which is also more flexible and friendly.

Let me give you an example. There was one of the largest projects I was leading and involved four team members. Two of them were coders. After the business analysis was completed by the IT people, to not waste precious time meeting frequently I decided to set up an email group where the progress was supposed to be shared and the communication secured. I also built a Wiki Page where the team members could share and register the progress at each stage of the project. That would be online documentation of the work done and an archive for the future. These allowed me and the group to stay up to date on every aspect of the project without the need of unnecessary intervention. They also enabled me to follow the progress levels of each member and the group as a whole thereby allowing me to measure the overall performance. Letting people work by a commonly established checklist and communicating the progress we managed to successfully improve the results.