I got this email the other day:
“Something small on reverse interview: I talked to my boss and asked him how he got to where he is today. I used the reverse interview technique. This worked well, he opened up and this has helped improve our relationship. I now find him making more eye contact with me during meetings and I feel more comfortable in speaking up.”
This is one of the powerful things you get from this reverse interview – you get to know people on a more personal level. You open up the doors of communication and find common ground by getting past the corporate sterile conversations.
Dr. Dale Callahan is the IEM Program Director for the Information Engineering and Management Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a contributing writer for the IEM Blog. His thoughts here represent the types of topics covered in the Entrepreneurial courses he teaches the clients of the IEM Program at UAB.
