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Emotional intelligence expert, author and speaker, Harvey Deutschendorf has written a story for FastCompany.com about a different way for hiring managers to select the best new employee.

For hiring managers looking to tell a great performance from genuine attributes, a helpful first step is to get out of the office. Go to a quiet coffee shop, park, or some other place where you won’t be interrupted. That can help get your candidate off guard a bit without making them overly uncomfortable. Then ask these seven questions.

How would you answer these questions?

Find out the details to these questions, here.

1. What bothers you most about other people?

2. Tell me about a day when everything went wrong.

3. Tell me about a colleague you really got along with and why you think you did

4. What's something that you can teach me?

5. Tell me about someone you admire and why you do

6. What's one thing you're really proud of and why?

7. If you ran your own company, what kinds of people would you hire and why?

This will give you a view into what your interviewee values in others and on teams. What sorts of people do they prefer to work with? Do they focus on the people or the outcomes? What's their style of relating to and managing others in order to accomplish shared goals? Do they like to work closely with others, or do they prefer to work independently?

Harvey Deutschendorf is an emotional intelligence expert, author and speaker. To take the EI Quiz go to theotherkindofsmart.com

His book The Other Kind Of Smart, Simple Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence for Greater Personal Effectiveness and Success has been translated into four languages. You can follow him on Twitter @theeiguy.