Leadership IQ · Online certificate courses
Hiring for Attitude
Ask better interview questions. Make better hiring decisions.
- Format
- Online · self-paced
- Duration
- 4 weeks
- Weekly commitment
- ~2 hours
Inside the course
Look beyond the polished answer to understand the candidate.
A strong résumé doesn't tell you how someone will behave on your team. This four-week course teaches hiring managers and HR leaders how to define the attitudes their organization needs, uncover them in interviews, and evaluate answers consistently.
- Identify the attitudes that distinguish success in your organization.
- Build interview questions that reveal more than rehearsed responses.
- Create answer guidelines and practice assessing candidates for attitude.
For hiring managers, HR leaders, and anyone responsible for interviewing and selecting employees.
Week by week
What you’ll learn
Week 01The Attitude Revolution & Discovering The Attitudes You Need To Hire
The Attitude Revolution & Discovering The Attitudes You Need To Hire
- The Top 4 attitudes that drive hiring failures
- Two Exercises to quickly discover the 5 most important attitudes you need to hireWhy companies like Southwest Airlines, Google, Apple, and The Ritz-Carlton hire for radically different attitudes
- The 2 types of job candidates you should never hire
- How the term ‘Brown Shorts’ came to mean the attitudes that define your unique culture (and how Southwest Airlines’ creative hiring practices inspired the term)
- BONUS SPECIAL REPORTS: In addition to everything in this module, you get:
Your Company Won't Scale If You’re Not Hiring For Attitude
To Eliminate Hiring Failures, Stop Being So Optimistic
Week 02Interviewing For Attitude
Interviewing For Attitude
- Nine of the most powerful attitudinal interview questions and the attitudes they reveal
- How to design your own attitudinal interview questions that perfectly fit your culture
- Why you should never ask “tell me about yourself” or “what are your strengths/weaknesses”
- The 5-part interview question that gets people to reveal the truth about what their last boss really thought about them
- 6 words that ruin your interview questions (that almost every interviewer unknowingly uses)
- Discover how many interview questions it takes to reveal a candidate’s attitude (and why most hiring managers ask far too many questions)
- BONUS SPECIAL REPORTS: In addition to everything in this module, you get:
2 Interview Questions To Test If Job Candidates Have Emotional Intelligence
A Behavioral Interview Question To Reveal If Candidates Have Problems With Punctuality
Here’s A Behavioral Interview Question For Assessing Change-Readiness
Here’s A Behavioral Interview Question For Testing If Candidates Can Handle Constructive Criticism
Here’s A Behavioral Interview Question For Testing If Candidates Have Personal Leadership
3 Job Interview Questions You Must Stop Asking
Week 03Developing Answer Guidelines
Developing Answer Guidelines
- The exact words that the worst candidates frequently say in job interviews and how to spot them immediately
- Identifying the Warning Signs in candidates’ answers that identify if they’re likely to be a good fit for you and your culture
- Identifying the Positive Signals in candidates’ answers that identify if they’re likely to be a good fit for you and your culture
- How to consistently and correctly evaluate candidates’ responses to your interview questions by developing Answer Guidelines
- Discover which pronouns candidates use that show they don’t take responsibility
- Learn which verbs signal a candidate is dodging your interview questions
- Using the new science of textual analysis to evaluate whether a candidate is a great or poor fit by listening to the pronouns, verb tenses, adverbs, and negations they use when talking to you
- BONUS SPECIAL REPORTS: In addition to everything in this module, you get:
Beware Of Hiring Candidates Who Say Always And Never In Job Interviews
How To Tell If A Job Candidate Is Lying In The Interview
This Might Be The Biggest Bias Ruining Companies Ability To Hire Effectively
A Behavioral Interview Question To Test If Someone Can Motivate Themselves
Here’s An Interview Question To Test If Candidates Are Problem Solvers Or Problem Bringers
Week 04Interviewing For Attitude Practicum
Interviewing For Attitude Practicum
- 2 phrases for ‘follow-up probing’ that do NOT make bad candidates sound unnaturally good
- The exact sentence you need to say at the beginning of video interviews
- How to stop well-trained candidates from trying to ‘take over’ the interview
- Specific script to start the interview that builds rapport while structuring the interview process
- Specific practical answers to the most challenging interviewing issues
- How and where the interviewer and candidate should sit during the interview
- How to delay candidate questions until the end of the interview without seeming rude
- How to manage team-based interviews
- How to pitch your candidates on accepting your offer without ruining your ability to evaluate them critically
- BONUS SPECIAL REPORTS: In addition to everything in this module, you get:
If You Want Job Candidates To Have A Great Impression Of Your Company, Follow These 4 Interview Tips
In Job Interviews Use These 4 Sentences To Transition From Recruiting To Interviewing
Schedule & participation
Learn on your schedule. Finish with a certificate.
- Starts
- November 9, 2026
- Complete by
- December 6, 2026
- Weekly commitment
- ~2 hours
Study when it suits your schedule. Complete the required coursework by the deadline to earn your certificate.
Coursework, access, and certificate requirements
Hiring for Attitude 4-Week Online Certificate Program [NOVEMBER 9TH]
SESSION START DATE: November 9, 2026
SESSION END DATE: December 6, 2026
LOGISTICAL DETAILS:
STARTING THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 9TH, you’re going to take 1 course per week for 4 weeks.
You are not required to login at any set time, so each week you may work on the courses at times that work best for your schedule.
Each week, you’ll watch a video course, and then complete one assignment to hardwire your learnings and take one brief quiz to ensure you learned that week’s content.
You can expect to spend around 2 hours per week between the videos and the coursework.
You may work ahead and you will not be penalized for falling behind, but ALL MODULES, ASSIGNMENTS AND QUIZZES MUST BE COMPLETED BY 11:59 PM (PST) ON THE FINAL DAY OF THE PROGRAM. The final day of program is Sunday, December 6, 2026.
This is a 4-week program and certificates will not be issued if all coursework is not completed by the deadline.
HOW DO I ENROLL?
Simply click the red "Enroll" button to purchase your registration and secure your spot in the course. Each seat is for one participant. Select the quantity you need, then add attendee names and emails after checkout.
THE PROGRAM START DATE IS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH.
On Friday, November 6th, each participant will receive an email with their login information to access the course.
WHAT IF MANY LEADERS WANT TO ATTEND?
If your colleagues want to participate, that's great! We offer GROUP DISCOUNTS for groups of 5 or more leaders from the same organization. Simply contact Jill Sutherland (Director of Client Services) at 800-814-7859 or jill@leadershipiq.com
DO I GET CEU'S?
While we don't formally offer a specific accredited CEU/PDU (because there are so many different state & professional associations), many of our attendees will send the program description to their particular accrediting body and apply to have that training hour(s) counted. We hear that many of our attendees have been successful with that approach. THIS PROGRAM DELIVERS 4 CONTACT/COURSE HOURS.
WHY A CERTIFICATE?
To advance your career, and inspire the confidence of your team, you need proof that you’re a master interviewer. The Hiring For Attitude Certificate also looks GREAT on your LinkedIn profile and resume. And if you’re going to train multiple leaders in your organization, you want to know which leaders have progressed through the necessary training to become master interviewers. To get your certificate, you'll pass the weekly quizzes and complete all weekly assignments (and because you watched all the program modules, it will be easy for you to pass with flying colors)!
Your next step
Enroll in Hiring for Attitude
Choose your seats now. Add each participant’s name and email after checkout.