Natural behaviours includes your goal-orientation, competitiveness, ability to work within guidelines etc.

Learned behaviours are the parts of us we can change – attitudes, beliefs, maturity etc.

Good interviewers will be able to draw these areas out by using good questioning – you can see a sample here in McQuaig’s Interview Guide – http://www.holstgroup.co.uk/images/sample_ws_job_fit_interview_guide.pdf

Natural behavioural questions start on page 4, learned behaviours on page 11. Please note that this is a sample report – the questions are different for every role, but it should give you a flavour.

Also the ability to blindly follow your boss and pretend there are WMD wherever they tell you?

I have used the Mcquaig toolkit as a line manager during performance reviews with my team members, and I found it significantly enhanced the communication between me and the Individual. Thus improving the clarity of what was required, and the effectiveness (or I could say the productivity) of the individual and the team.

We shared a common understanding of the individuals strengths and also those area\\\’s where the individual was not so comfortable.

This extra dimension to the review meetings, ensured a shared expectations of the work ahead – not only what was to be delivered, but also how,. This resulted in quickly creating a real positive attitude in the individual and the team.

DaveS