Leadership

Question 1

How to implement change?

Answer 1

1. Define the change required and its alignment to strategic aims of the company
2. Determine who the change would impact and how we need to support them during the change process
3. Create solid plan for achieving the change desired and who would be responsible for meeting the specific milestones of the change process AND by which timeframe
4. Develop communication strategy that would outline how the change would be communicated throughout the different stages of the process
5. Finally, once change has been achieved, measure the success and determine lessons learned so to enable continued improvement and development

Question 2

How would you address cybersecurity?

Answer 2

I would leverage a battle harded risk framework to guide an assessment. There are many different cybersecurity risk assessment frameworks to choose from. But the one most experts use is the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF).
The NIST CSF’s five elements are:

Identify: Establish the organization’s baseline security posture and identify risks.

Protect: Implement security controls to protect against identified risks.

Detect: Develop and implement detection processes to identify cybersecurity incidents.

Respond: Establish and implement response plans for identified cybersecurity incidents.

Recover: Develop and implement plans to restore systems and data following a cybersecurity event.

Question 3

Describe your communication style during management of a project?

Answer 3

Open, honest and encouraging. I believe that, by having an open and encouraging style of communication, my team will discuss with me any issues and potential problems, which in turn allow us to deliver the project on time and to specification. Of course, there are times when a limited communication style is required, especially when we are operating to an extremely tight deadline. However, wherever passible, I always encourage open, honest and frank discussions where the team feel they can communicate with me at any time.

Question 4

How wound you delegate responsibility during a very important project with tight deadlines?

Answer 4

1. know your team’s key strengths and weaknesses.
2. draw up list of tasks and prioritize that needed to be delegated during the planning phase of project and assign based on strengths
3. once tasks are delegated, ensure eachteam member was fully aware of brief.
4. make sure they provide me with report and update on set cadence.
5. this will allow me to bencmark against overall plan and timeline.
6. i would always trust my team to deliver based on fact i am fully aware of their strengths and weaknesses.