Situational Judgment Competency Quiz

1. You have recently been appointed to a position in a new project team. Although you are experienced in the technical aspects of the job, there are aspects of the work that you need to understand. Your job will eventually require internal liaison and collaboration with other project teams. Although your manager has proposed an induction and training period for you, many of the issues you are responsible for requiring urgent attention.

2. You lead a team of twelve people. In order to address the department's new objectives, you have been asked to work out your department's yearly plan. Your Manager has given you and other team leaders a deadline of two weeks so that she can report to the board. What would you do?

3. You have just spent a long time writing a report that is due for delivery to a senior manager. A more experienced and well-respected member of the team tells you that she thinks it would be improved with amendments to several sections of the report. What would you do?

4. You have joined a new team. During the first months, your Team Leader took some time to give you the guidelines and coach you. Now you feel that you need more autonomy and independence to do your work.

5. You have recently noticed one of your colleagues has been struggling to deliver work on time. There is no obvious reason for why this is so, but they do seem to be getting increasingly delayed, and you know they have made a couple of big mistakes recently too. Their behavior hasn't gone unnoticed by other people across the business, as you have overheard a number of managers talking about them in meetings. They don't have a lot of confidence and you don't think they would be able to talk directly to the team manager about whatever is happening. What would you do?

6. You are Team Leader. Your team is under pressure with a heavy workload. A training session is planned for the entire team to improve the speed of treatment. One of your Team Members tells you that he does not wish to follow the training, citing his heavy workload.

7. You are working on a file with a colleague who is currently on sick leave. The file is for another Unit. You learn that the sick leave of your colleague is extended by four more weeks. The treatment of the file is blocked. How do you react?

8. You see, a new employee in the office is trying to put you down by always highlighting your flaws in front of seniors. What will you do?

9. There is road rage, and because of that, the path is blocked, and vehicles aren't able to move. You see that, what will you do?

10. How do you deal with the bullies who suddenly attack you?