California Coastal Conservancy interview questions

1. What interests you in becoming the State Coastal Conservancy Director of Fiscal Services and how has your education and experience prepared you for this position? 2. What experience do you have functioning as a manager of a team and what were your responsibilities? 3. How would you describe your management style? What would your colleagues say are your strengths and weaknesses as a manager? 4. What is your experience with planning and organizing your own workload and the workload of others? What tasks/duties were included? 5. This is a 2-part question: What experience do you have with performance management and the progressive discipline process? Have you handled any grievances in your workplace and if so, what was the outcome? 6. How would you establish yourself as the new manager over other supervisors and staff who may have more experience and/or technical knowledge than you? 7. Please give us an example when you had to communicate controversial or unpleasant information to your staff or management. What did you do and what was the result? 8. This is a 2-part question: What is your process to ensure that your staff complete their work timely and accurately? What steps do you take when you find mistakes made from your team? 9. The Coastal Conservancy is organized into different units. What steps would you take to build strong working relationships with your staff as well other members of the Coastal Conservancy management? 10. What process do you think works best for developing and updating agency polices? 11. Do you have any questions for us about this position or about the Coastal Conservancy?