International Criminal CourtICC Leadership Competency
Collaboration — ICC competency
Building cooperation across teams, organs and external partners.
What this competency means
As a leadership dimension, collaboration concerns creating the conditions for cooperation beyond one's own team, including across organs of the Court and with external partners.
Based on the ICC Leadership Framework
Behavioural indicators
- Builds cooperation across teams and organisational boundaries
- Works constructively with internal and external partners
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What a strong example might demonstrate
Candidates preparing for competency-based interviews can use this competency to think about cooperation they created between groups that did not naturally work together. A strong behavioural example would demonstrate the obstacle, the approach used, and the joint outcome.
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How to prepare for questions on this competency
Panels typically explore leadership of cross-boundary work rather than management of a single team.
STAR preparation
- Situation — set the context in two sentences: where, when, who was involved.
- Task — state precisely what you were responsible for, not what the team was responsible for.
- Action — spend most of the answer here, in the first person, showing the indicators above in practice.
- Result — quantify the outcome and add what you learned or changed afterwards.
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Common interview question patterns
Illustrative patterns written by PanelPrep to help you practise. They are not published or endorsed by ICC.
- Describe how you built cooperation between different teams.
- Tell us about a partnership you established outside your organisation.
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Common mistakes
- Collaboration described only within your own team
- No obstacle to overcome in the example
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The competency name, category and behavioural concepts on this page are based on International Criminal Court, leadership framework referenced in official ICC recruitment materials. Summaries, interview guidance, question patterns and preparation advice are original PanelPrep content.
Framework version: ICC leadership framework dimensions as published in ICC recruitment materials. Last verified: 2026-08-09.
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