Senior School, San Francisco, CA

Preparing for your interview Identify your stakeholders ● You, ● Your boss ● Your team ● Your customers ● Who else? Plan your one-on-one interview

● Make sure you capture quotes, screenshots, and be curious about everything. ● Encourage the interviewee to elaborate and look for signs of emotions. ● Make sure you highlight their reality and unmet needs. 1 Do you get interrupted by people from your workgroup (boss, team members, etc.)? Who interrupts you the most? And how often? 2 How do you feel about these interruptions? Do they cause you stress and why/how? In what ways do they impact your productivity? 3 What kinds of issues/tasks are these interruptions about? Can you provide some examples? Can these interruptions be grouped into some main categories and what would these categories be? 4 Are some of these interruptions necessary and are helping achieve important outcomes? If so which ones and why/how? 5 Are some of these interruptions unnecessary and not helping achieve important outcomes? Can these be deferred to a later time or eliminated? Which ones and why/how? 6 How much time do you think interruptions take up of your day? Or how much more time would you be able to recover if you didn’t have these interruptions? 7 Which interruptions do you find most challenging? Describe them and how you feel when you get interrupted by them? 8 Have you been able to manage certain interruptions and how? 9 Have you been able at times to let people around you know that you are focused and that you prefer to not be interrupted? Can you describe?

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