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31. What are the major training and development needs of the people in your department? How did you identify them? What are you doing about them?
32. Are there any techniques you have found useful in identifying particular subordinates’ needs and potentials? Tell me how they worked with a particular person.
33. What do you do differently than other managers? Why? Examples?
34. What is the farthest you’ve had to bend your standards in order to succeed?
35. What job duties would you like to avoid if at all possible?
36. Describe a time in which you weighed the pros and cons of a situation and decided not to take action, even though you were under pressure to do so?
37. All of us have been in situations where we assigned work to other people and they didn’t do what we intended. Can you tell me about some of those? What were the circumstances and how did you handle it?
38. Have you ever had problems in getting your subordinates to accept your ideas or department goals? What approach did you use? How effective was it?
39. Have you ever needed cooperation from groups that did not report to you? What did you do to gain cooperation? What were the satisfactions and disappointments?
40. Is there a trait or characteristic about you that you find is frequently misunderstood, that surprises you when you find out that people think that about you?
41. What 3 things do you hope to accomplish in your first year?
42. What do you expect of those who report to you? If candidate responds with a one word answer (for example saying, “support” you can probe further by asking the candidate to describe three behaviors that she/he would view as being supportive.
43. If you had an unfavorable plan (i.e., budget) to implement, what would you do to get the managers’ buy in and support?
44. With the current nursing shortage, what are two solutions you would like to see put in place?
45. What kind of support do you offer managers, directors and front-line staff, knowing the stress of the nursing shortage and the increasing acuity of our patients?
46. Tell us about a high level innovative idea/change that you implemented. Was it or was it not successful?

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