LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW

Leadership Interview



Leadership Interview

Introduction

I decided to interview two individual one is a man named Christopher Homewood and othert is a female name D. Martin. Christopher personality and work ethics impressed me. His nature seems to suite my leadership style. Before the informational interview day came I took some time to jot down ideas and questions that I wanted to ask Mr. Homewood. My impression of Mr. Christopher Homewood was that he was laid back and was easy going, but was a man who wanted results and things done. While D. Martin describes a leader as someone who is able to work effectively with other people and facilitate getting the job done. She further discusses the leader needing to have interactive communication skills. These skills she describes as two parts; first is active listening, making eye contact and giving full attention to the person speaking; the second is being able to talk and make a point with sounding condescending.

Interview with Christopher

We opened with same chat and discussed my career with Target and where it was going. He seemed very please that I graduated from the internship program and now I am currently working for Target as a Recruiter and Liaison. The ice seems to have been broken. So, from this moment I took the chance to explain to him what my assignment was and what was going too happened (Yukl, G 2006).

My first sets of questions were very general the usual how long have you been with the company and how long have you been in this position? Mr. Homewood career started with Target about six years ago. Currently, he has been a District Team Leader for about three years. My responds was, "Wow that is pretty amazing." I had to ask him isn't that a short period of time to become a District Team Leader. Because I know from experience that from the entering position of a management as an Executive Team Leader to become a Store Team Leader takes anywhere from three to five years of hard work and District comes after that (Schriesheim, 1982).

My next set of questions that I had to ask was, "Why did you choose Target? And what is it about your job that you love?" He took a couple of seconds before he answered me with a reply that Target was an excellent company to work for. They want their team and management to excel and they will give you the opportunity to do so. Target is always changing and changing with the time. At my level you are able to work with great people and have your idea inputted and see how it turns out. It is sort of like a laboratory, an experiment if it works that great and if it does not, try again (Kelley, 1995).

The next question that I wanted to ask him was what was your biggest accomplishment in your Target career? He said with a smile that this was the easiest questions that he had ...