The Art of the Interview: What Employers Really Want to Hear with Denise Cooper (Ep.134)
Your colleagues pay attention to your behavior, your values, and what you say. What message are you sending?
In this week's show, we are flipping the script and having long-time guest Deborah Snow Walsh interview our host, Denise Cooper for a change.
Deborah Snow Walsh is a talent executive who pulls on her experience selling outplacement services for large, multi-national organizations to demonstrate the levels an interview wants an applicant to speak to during their first meeting.
During this interview, Denise Cooper describes her experiences working with a senior leader who wouldn't accept help and the importance of respecting and finding a way to work with difficult people. She also talks about her experience creating a global new hire orientation program and the importance of clearing obstacles for the teams underneath you.
How do you display vision, your ability to be a change agent, your ability to drive financial results through teams, your drive for developing people, as well as your ethics and integrity while meeting someone for the first time? Keep listening to find out.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW
- Describe a time when you've worked somewhere where you could do your best work because you felt respected, you felt that you had the intellectual capital to do the job in front of you, and because you worked with a collaborative team? What did that feel like? [05:47]
- I want you to give me two things you've done anywhere in your career that you're really proud of. [20:18]
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DENISE COOPER'S BIO
Denise Cooper is the Founder and CEO of Remarkable Leadership Lessons, a company founded over 10 years ago to assist C-suite, senior-level business leaders, and managers in raising their game as contributors to profitability.
Denise serves as an Executive Coach and Keynote Speaker, with a proven process for grooming diverse candidates for succession. She does this through one-on-one customized development plans, professional assessments, and time-proven case studies.
Her expertise and wisdom are grounded in neuro-leadership, behavioral & psychological principles along with 25 years of experience. Denise has worked across a wide range of industries and organizations from Fortune 500 corporations, small to mid-market & nonprofit businesses. Change is impacting every aspect of business and executives need leadership skills that inspire trust, enable quick response times, clarify purpose and create work cultures where belonging and contribution are foundational principles.
