Advocacy and Constructive Disagreement Questions
Share examples of times you disagreed with leadership, colleagues, or customer requests and advocated for your perspective. Demonstrate healthy disagreement: listening to others' views, building evidence for your position, expressing concern diplomatically, accepting decisions even when you disagree. Show that you can influence outcomes through persuasion rather than authority. At mid-level, demonstrate both advocating for your views and respecting final decisions by others.
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A machine learning model in production systematically underestimates churn for a vulnerable customer segment. Leadership resists retraining because of cost. As a principal data analyst, craft a multi-step plan to advocate for mitigation including business impact assessment, phased rollout, monitoring, and governance actions.
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Design a 30- to 60-minute stakeholder workshop to resolve disagreement about a shared dashboard metric. Include objectives, required attendees, a short agenda with exercises, and expected outputs that lead to a clear decision or next steps.
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When should you accept leadership's decision even if you disagree? As a mid-level data analyst, describe criteria you use to decide when to escalate, when to accept the decision, and how you would maintain credibility afterwards.
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Describe how you would ask clarifying questions when a stakeholder disagrees with your findings. Provide 6-8 example open-ended questions you might ask during a meeting to uncover assumptions, data sources, and the root cause of the disagreement.
MediumBehavioral
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A stakeholder dismisses your analysis citing 'their gut feeling' and past experience. How do you respectfully counter with data while validating their perspective so they do not feel dismissed and remain open to testing the hypothesis?
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