Question

Management Skills

Assignment is an interview and you are being interviewed for a job and these questions need to be answered as if it was a job interview with relevant material will post the topic of the question that needs to be discussed with each question.

company: Tesla

1. could you talk about your management core competencies that you think will add value to this company? ( Topics Needed for this question: Deep listening, Conversing, Co-initiating, and any extra)

2. "At Tesla, helping others and making a difference is one of our main missions, this is why we wanted to go throught this organizational processs that we went throught, thought a model called the SOAR model:

The first step of the model is the Strength: The main strength of tesla is their engineering expertise: tesla has some of the best and most skilled engineered in the world. They are consistently innovating with the release of new cars almost every year. Another major strength that relates to the article about their production of ventilators is that their production is based in the United States, meaning that they can act and deliver quickly.

Secondly, their main opportunities are what the shareholders are asking for: tesla should focus on the growing demand. Moreover, Tesla can differentiate itself from the competition by showing that it has a moral obligation to shift and produce ventilators to help the American population. This new challenge that tesla is facing could be seen as a great opportunity for the firm.

Reflecting on Strength and opportunity, tesla’s main aspiration is to forge itself as an innovator and leader in the driverless car’s revolution. The company aspires to be able to shift its production by constantly innovating in moments of urgent need such as the Coronavirus. The strategic initiate that tesla put in place to shift its production to ventilators is to adapt the process of building cars into building the medial supply by using car parts.

Finally, considering its strength, opportunity and aspiration, tesla achieved its goal to produce and deliver extremely quickly the ventilators for many hospitals. The best reward for the company is the media coverage that this shift has achieved. This could result in an increased in market share and car sales for tesla. "

We wanted to ask you how you can relate to this example in your past experience and how your problem-solving skills could be applied in your role at tesla?

3. We want to know is you have the right behaviour for driving successfully a team.

Answer 1

1. My management core competencies are planning and delegating, deep listening, conversing, and co-initiating. It is important to note that a manager needs to make others in his team productive by working smoothly. The better the team performs, the more efficient and effective the manager is assumed to be. Planning ahead for the task will eventually help in delegating tasks effectively to others in the team based on the skills and competencies of the individual members known to the manager. Important leadership quality is that a leader listens more than talking. He or she will give due value to what others in the team have to say or think on a particular problem. So, the leader will engage in deep listening and converse with the teammates regarding the issue. He will utilize the experience of the teammates and their insights to solve an issue. A leader will not act as the sole initiator of important activities. He or she will act as a co-initiator. It means that the leader will facilitate the initiation of activities by his or her teammates, thereby making them experienced in the art of problem-solving. As the teammates will be the active initiators, this will make the manager a co-initiator. All the above-mentioned management core competencies will help in sharing and dissemination of innovative ideas within the organization by the facilitation of teamwork and sharing.

2. Problem-solving regarding an "urgent shift" from what the organization was currently dealing with to something new, can be achieved by making the need for an urgent shift a part of company culture. This will keep the employees well-prepared to handle changes and demands related to the changes. Moreover, the employees will remain "shockproof" when urgent demands will arise. This calls for a diversified workforce or engineers to meet the engineering demands in an unforeseen situation. This again calls for a human resource management system that can quickly fulfil any workforce requirement. This requires the organization to have an emergency management systems in its HR department which can fulfil the emergency workforce requirements of the company.

3. Right behaviour for driving successfully a team is extremely important. An organization is not only driven by work skills. We live in a social world, where behaviour matters immensely. Behaviour helps to connect easily which is extremely important for an organization to stay productively active. Ill-behavior can lead to unproductive conflicts and waste a precious resource that's time. Right behaviour in terms of a gentle approach, responsiveness, timely communication, and maintenance of good work ethics goes a long way in staying connected to the world with a good name and identity.