Shaping Your Future Team: Effective Interviewing Skills for Managers

Choosing the right talent today strengthens your team and your business tomorrow – and the opposite is equally true. Great teams don’t happen by chance; they’re built on one hiring decision at a time. This makes the role of the Interviewer integral when it comes to selecting a strong and successful team.

Throughout this Workshop, participants will learn how to uncover real potential, recognise the behaviours and values that drive long-term success, and conduct interviews that are fair, engaging and grounded in evidence, not assumptions.

With clear guidance on compliant interviewing and a Toolkit to use immediately, participants will leave with confidence, clarity and skill to make intentional hiring decisions that strengthen their teams and organisation’s future.

Audience

This course is ideal for anyone involved in selecting talent; frontline managers, supervisors and emerging leaders who interview candidates as part of building their teams. It is also suited to HR professionals and in-house Recruiters who want to strengthen their interviewing capability and ensure fairness, consistency and strong hiring decisions.

Learning Outcomes

✨ Interview in a fair, consistent and confident way using a simple structure that works.
✨ Spot genuine potential by noticing key behaviours, attitude and fit for the role.
✨ Understand different questioning techniques to get clear, useful information from candidates.
✨ Know what you can and cannot ask to stay compliant with Irish employment laws and GDPR.
✨ Give candidates a positive experience and gain clarity and confidence in choosing the right person for the job.

Key Topics Covered

✨ Why good interviewing matters and how it affects your team.
✨ The interviewer’s role and how to keep the process fair and consistent.
✨ How to prepare properly including reading CVs, knowing the role and planning your questions.
✨ How to use simple, structured questions and follow-ups to get real answers.
✨ How to recognise attitude, behaviours and potential, not just experience.
✨ How to avoid bias and stay objective when choosing between candidates.
✨ What you can and cannot ask legally in an interview.
✨ How to create a good candidate experience from start to finish.
✨ How to assess information and make the right hiring decision.
✨ Understand the role/impact of AI to the interview process.
✨ Tools and templates to support your future interviews.

Trainer Information

Denise Whelan is an accomplished HR and Organisational Development Consultant with over 20 years’ experience partnering with business owners, CEOs, and leaders across Ireland, the US and the UK. She progressed to Chief People Officer of an SME that grew to a global organisation before establishing her own consultancy. She has built HR functions from the ground up, led international integrations, supported private-equity growth and guided SME leaders through scale, change and transformation.

A Chartered MCIPD professional and qualified Coach, Denise blends strategic insight with strong commercial judgement, always driven by a people-first ethos. She is passionate about empowering people to elevate their capabilities, impact and confidence.

As an Organisational Development Consultant, Denise supports ambitious organisations through strategic HR transformation, leadership development, training and development culture alignment and compliance. Her work in these areas is enhanced by tailored training programmes and one-to-one coaching and mentoring to support leaders and teams.