Teaching Your Directs How To Interview - Chapter 1 - Basics - Part 2

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

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🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Manager Tools Interview Process recommends having your direct reports interview candidates who would become their peers. Here's how to teach your directs to be Effective Interviewers.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Manager Tools.
0:02.5	This is Sarah.
0:04.2	And I'm Mark.
0:05.1	Today's podcast, teaching your directs how to interview chapter one, part two of two.
0:11.9	As always, our content has been crafted by humans, and we are now certified by proudly human.
0:17.9	The questions this cast answers are, should my directs interview someone who would
0:23.1	become their peer? How can I teach my directs how to interview? What do I need to teach my directs
0:31.3	before they get a chance to interview? If you want answers to these questions and more, keep listening.
0:39.5	Your team understands you, but does that mean you're communicating well?
0:43.5	There's a difference between being heard and actually connecting.
0:47.1	The effective communicator conference reveals that your natural communication style
0:51.1	works for only about 25% of the people you lead. The other 75% need something
0:57.2	different, and most managers never realize the gap exists. At Manager Tools, we'll teach you how to
1:03.2	read behavioral cues, adapt your style, and reach all of them, available for individual managers,
1:09.5	and for full leadership teams. Visit us at
1:12.3	manager-dash-tools.com forward slash ECC to learn more.
1:18.9	Okay, now they've read the book or they've gone to the conference and they've understood it.
1:22.8	What we would have them do next is observe interviews that you're holding.
1:28.2	If you had somebody on your team who was direct, who was conducting interviews who had
1:32.0	already done this, they could observe them as well, right?
1:35.0	Not necessarily just you, right?
1:37.7	Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
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