Sample Interview Questions for Propsective Consultants

SAMPLE DOCUMENT

Instructions

Review these questions keeping in mind your organization's needs, goals, and inclusiveness process, and add or subtract questions as necessary:

• Tell us about your philosophical approach to inclusiveness training. (Ask probing questions to see if his/her general philosophy is consistent with the training strategy or strategies you identified on Selecting a Training Approach and Other Details of Inclusiveness Training.)
• What is one of your most successful (and one of your least successful) inclusiveness consulting experiences? What do you think worked and what did not work? What would you change?
• Why are you the best consultant to work with our organization?
• What will you need from us to ensure a successful consulting relationship?
• Tell us about similar inclusiveness work you have done in the way of designing a full inclusiveness initiative, information gathering, cultural competency training, and/or evaluations. (Select only those that are applicable to your organization.)
• Have you worked with an organization during a six to eighteen-month-long process (rather than for one-time or day-long sessions)?

If you are hiring a consultant to do inclusiveness training, add the following questions:

• How do you prepare for a training session?
• How do you evaluate training sessions?
• Would you bring in other consultants to aid in our training sessions? If so, what can you tell us about them?
• What strengths do you have that will be particularly useful in our training sessions?

This worksheet was created by The Denver Foundation's Inclusiveness Project (http://www.nonprofitinclusiveness.org/) to support organizations doing inclusiveness work.

Users are encouraged to customize the worksheet (both content and formatting) to meet the needs of their respective organizations.

A Word version is attached. A writable PDF version is also attached.