ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE
Interview a human service executive director or director-level administrator
What’s your name? What is your educational background? How long have you been in the human services field? an administrator?
How were you recruited into your first administrative job? Did you need direct practice experience? Why or why not?
What was your path to your current job? What was the transition from non-administrator to administrator like (if you had a non-administrative job)? What was difficult about the transition, if anything?
What is your administrative and organizational theory (that is, your general approach) to administration? How does it guide your work?
Given the multitude of tasks you face, from internal organizational matters to being the outward face of your agency to the world at large, how do you prioritize among them? which are the categories of tasks which are hardest for you? Has this changed since you first began your nonprofit leadership career? What have you learned along the way about handling the demand of the position?
